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Scoop Images: G8 Summit - Who’ll Wear A White Hat?
Images from the G8 Summit currently underway in Kananaskism, Canada. On arrival in Alberta each leader was offered a white hat. Some seemed willing to wear it. Others weren't and just looked at it. Some it seems were not even prepared to be photographed with it..
N.B. Scoop has no idea what Canada's summit minders had in mind with the hat. All explanations are welcome as feedback to editor@scoop.co.nz).
UK PMTony Blair
Romano Prodi, President of the
European Commission
US President George Bush
Japanese Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi
Thabo Mbeki, President of South
Africa
Vladimir Putin, President of
Russia
Jacques Chirac, President of
France
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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