Members of the honor guard check a phone before the arrival of delegates on the first day of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, November 18, 2024. - AFP
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP): G20 leaders began arriving for a summit in Brazil on Monday to try reignite deadlocked climate talks and overcome their differences on the Middle East and Ukraine wars ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
US President Joe Biden will attend his last summit of the world's leading economies, but as a lame duck leader eclipsed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the most influential leader at this year's meeting.
