TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Canada and the United States will be joined during the July 7-9 meetings at a luxury hotel in the lakeside resort of Toyako by heads of seven African states and major economies including China and India. That makes this the largest such gathering since the event began more than three decades ago when a cosier club of the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain and Italy met at the Chateau de Rambouillet outside Paris in November 1975 to discuss the oil crisis and a world recession. The themes sound...
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