{"id":1639,"date":"2014-11-15T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2014-11-15T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T19:47:48","slug":"western-leaders-confront-putin-at-g20-with-threat-of-more-sanctions-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Western leaders confront Putin at G20 with threat of more sanctions | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/15\/us-g20-summit-idUSKCN0IZ03C20141115\">Western leaders confront Putin at G20 with threat of more sanctions | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">(Reuters) &#8211; Western leaders warned Vladimir Putin at a\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/subjects\/g20?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">G20<\/a><\/span>summit on Saturday that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels in\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/ukraine?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Ukraine<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/russia?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Russia<\/a><\/span>\u00a0denied any involvement in an escalation of the separatist war in eastern\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/ukraine?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, where more than 4,000 people have been killed since April, but faced strong rebukes from leaders including U.S. President\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/people\/barack-obama?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8220;I guess I\u2019ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine,&#8221; Harper told Putin at the summit in Brisbane,\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/australia?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Australia<\/a><\/span>, according to his spokesman Jason MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Putin&#8217;s response to the comment was not positive, MacDonald said in an email, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">A source in Putin\u2019s delegation told Reuters that the Russian president would leave the summit early, skipping a working breakfast on Sunday, because he needed to return to meetings in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western leaders confront Putin at G20 with threat of more sanctions | Reuters. (Reuters) &#8211; Western leaders warned Vladimir Putin at a\u00a0G20summit on Saturday that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels in\u00a0Ukraine. 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