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City moves NATO protest from Daley Plaza
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration pulled the plug Tuesday on the only NATO protest planned for a workday in the Loop business district, revoking permission for a May 18 Daley Plaza rally barely a week before world leaders are to arrive in Chicago....
Tags: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Chicago Blackhawks, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago White Sox, Entertainment
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Washington County getting G-8 spillover
andrews@herald-mail.comThe influx of visitors connected to the G-8 Summit in Frederick County, Md., is being felt in Washington County, too. Thomas B. Riford, president and chief executive officer of the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said local...Tags: Corporate Officers, Marketing, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Summits
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Occupy movement gathers in Chicago warehouse to protest NATO
Tribune reporterMembers of Occupy Chicago and people from across the country gathered in an aging warehouse just outside Chinatown today to discuss their opposition to next weekend's NATO summit and finish planning for the mass protests they will stage during the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Summits, International Workers' Day, Chicago Mayor
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Thurmont preparing, cautiously, for the world
andrews@herald-mail.comWhen world leaders convene this week at Camp David for the G-8 Summit, Thurmont plans to be ready. Mayor Martin Burns said shop windows and sidewalks will be clean and the grass in the park will be mowed. Businesses will brace for a flood of visitors,...Tags: News Agency, Genetic Engineering, Summits, YouTube, White House
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Businesses in Gettysburg Hoping to Cash In on G8 Summit
The G8 Summit meeting at Camp David is in just two months and the crowd in Frederick County, Maryland is expected to overflow into Gettysburg.
Those with the Gettysburg Visitor's Bureau say they expect May 18th & 19th to be very busy for local...Tags: Summits, Business, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland)
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Don't leave hunger off the global agenda
When the leaders of the globe's biggest economies — the G8 — meet at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains this weekend, they will have a plate full of problems: banking and liquidity and bonds and loan guarantees and such. Somewhere on...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Summits, Economy, Business and Finance, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Protesters, police prep for G-8 summit at Camp David
In the little town of Thurmont (population not quite 6,200), the recession has taken a heavy toll on Main Street, but things are picking up as residents prepare for next month's G8 Summit at nearby Camp David. The Cozy Country Inn has been busy booking...Tags: Frederick County (Virginia), Rentals, Italy, Germany, Shootings
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Protest groups move into place as G-8 Summit begins
andrews@herald-mail.comWith world leaders on their way to Camp David for a Group of Eight summit, protesters trickled into nearby Thurmont to speak their minds. The movement started slowly Friday morning, with just two representatives of the Larouche Political Action Committee...Tags: Summits, Washington, DC, White House, Germany, Activism
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News briefs for Saturday May 19
Blind Chinese activist leaves Beijing hospital, prepares to depart for the United States BEIJING (AP) — A blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington was hurriedly taken from a...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Italy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, SpaceX, Bedford (Bronx, New York)
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Blind Chinese Activist Chen Arrives In New York
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Abortion Issue, United Air Lines, New York University, Social Issues
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G8, Raising Pressure On Iran, Puts Oil Stocks On Standby
ReutersCAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to...Tags: Iran, Summits, International Energy, White House, Executive Branch
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NATO Secretary General, world leaders arrive in Chicago
WGN NewsMany of the world's leaders are now in Chicago, and Sunday morning, they'll be at McCormick Place, where talks begin on a number of issues with the war in Afghanistan and the European economy, highest on the list. Like a well-choreographed dance,...Tags: War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Summits, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Chicago Skyline
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