The humidity and sub-tropical rain in South Africa's port city of Durban is doing little to dampen the enthusiasm for the fifth Brics summit, the first time the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met in Africa.
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"This is not the time for this summit, " said another angry Baghdad resident.
It is that time in a summit where you hang on to ever precious rumour and squeeze it dry for meaning.
It will be the first time the annual summit has been held in the United Kingdom since it was at Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005.
The German chancellor arrived in Prague for Nato's summit not quite knowing this time whether he would even get to the touch the president, let alone hug him.
And Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny is likely to face a tough time at the summit amid accusations - both overseas and within Ireland - of a loose tax regime.
He made clear that on one major point - eurobonds - the speculation about what Germany might be willing to accept in time for the summit was simply wrong.
It will be the first time that the summit - which brings together the leaders of the US, UK, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy, France and Japan - has been held in the UK since leaders met at Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005.
As ever, foreign affairs issues are likely to occupy much time at the summit, and Berlusconi -- who has just returned from Saudi Arabia -- will be calling for backing for the Saudi Middle East peace plan, seen by some EU officials as the only game in town at present.
At the time of the London summit, the U.S. economy was shrinking at an annual rate of 6%.
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The realisation first reached a wider Chinese audience in early April, at the time of the G20 summit in London.
Dr Holdren was confident that that a similar bill would be passed by the US Senate in time for the Copenhagen summit meeting.
The eurozone is supposed to agree all this in time for the EU summit next weekend, when all Europe's leaders will be there.
Starting with the informal summit this week, it is time for the next step down the long and winding road to joint and several liability of eurozone debt.
Germany says the EU should now seek an all-embracing deal, including on the size and scope of the bail-out fund, in time for the next summit in March.
Mr Brown said it was "winning support every day" and said a programme had been agreed to draw up more details in time for the G8 summit in July.
Blair was in the House of Commons to report back on the outcome of last week's European Union leaders' summit, but most of his time was devoted to Iraq.
And there is progress of a kind to report: There are five million more at work in the EU than there were at the time of the Lisbon summit.
In the short term, EU leaders are to meet for their first face to face talks on the crisis at a planned summit in Brussels in two weeks time.
There is a growing danger that this bill will not be passed through the Senate and reconciled with the House version in time for the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December.
Several leaders, such as German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, showed a commendable sense of urgency by demanding that reform of the world's monetary system be decided in time for the June summit of G7 industrialized nations.
Yet by the time a 1991 European summit was held in the Dutch city of Maastricht, a plan for economic and monetary union (EMU) was written into a new EU treaty, to be ratified by member states later.
The Labwani verdict comes a week after a ground-breaking meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a summit in Egypt - the first time the two countries held such high-level talks since the death of Mr Hariri in 2005.
Mr Snyder pointed out that the 100-strong delegation of Chinese visitors who were currently attending the Summit were spending only a brief time on their other stops in the U.S. (they were also to visit Chicago and Detroit), but they were spending nearly two full days in Indiana.
President Obama will proceed from Australia to that summit in Indonesia, where he spent time growing up.
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