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That looked great and I most certainly will.
Thank you to the students at St. Gabriel's for that introduction.
I'am Carl Azuz.
CNN STUDENT NEWS is kicking off a new week of headlines on this Monday, May 21st.
First up, President Obama is wrapping up four days of meetings with other world leaders. It started last Friday with the annual two day gathering of the G-8. This is a group of eight powerful countries that gets together every year to discuss global issues. Its members are the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Canada.
President Obama hosted this year's meeting at the presidential country residence. That's Camp David. The leaders talked about food issues in Africa, political issues in the Middle East and Iran's controversial nuclear program.
But the main focus of this meeting was on the global economy, specifically on the financial struggles happening around Europe.
Brianna Keilar has more.
As the Eurozone crisis enters its third year, we saw a shift at this G-8 Summit toward a strategy that President Obama has been advocating for some time, focusing not only on government spending cuts, on budget cuts, but also on economic growth and creating jobs, something that has eluded many Eurozone nations for some time now.
And President Obama has an eye very much on the crisis there during this election year, as it threatens to affect the fragile economic recovery here in the U.S.
After the G-8 summit, the U.S. president headed to Chicago for a NATO meeting that started yesterday and runs through today. The leaders of more than 50 countries are at this conference, which is primarily about the war in Afghanistan.
At this meeting, the leaders are expected to work on a plan for how security in Afghanistan will shift from NATO forces to Afghan troops. They're mapping out the time frame and looking at who will pay for the increased number of Afghan troops it will take to secure the country.
While the NATO members are working on that inside, more protesters have been gathering outside the conference and five men have been arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot in Chicago. Police say there are no imminent threats to the world leaders at the NATO meeting.
We told you earlier that Italy is part of the G-8. The country's prime minister, Mario Monti, was also at the NATO meeting in Chicago. But he headed home early, after an earthquake hit Italy on -- early on Sunday morning.
The quake had a magnitude of 6.0. It struck around 4:00 a.m. local time on Sunday. At least seven people were killed. There were 50 others who were injured and a large number of people were forced out of their homes by the damage, you can see in these pictures.
Rescue workers are digging through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors. They'll also be making their way out to search smaller, more remote villages. Prime Minister Monti promised to help victims, saying, quote, "All that is necessary will be done as soon as possible."
What you're looking at here is a mountain in Switzerland. But pay attention, because this thing is about to look very different.
Watch this -- trees just collapsing. Over the course of several hours, more than 10 million cubic feet of rock slid down the mountainside and into the valley below. Officials evacuated the area to avoid any potential injuries from this landslide. Scientists said the cliff was stable afterward, but it was still classified as a danger zone.