The G20 summit ended in China. President Xi Jinping declared it "a great success" on completion of it at the final press conference. According to him, all the desired objectives have been achieved. "Dear friends, the 11th G20 summit has just ended with a great success", - Xi Jinping said. The summit took place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou on 4-5-th of September. Following the summit, the G20 leaders adopted a document entitled "Hangzhou consensus", endorsing the creation of a complex of measures to ensure global economic growth and taking those steps towards achieving set goals and conducting corresponding policy. The document is based on the criteria of "vision, integration, openness, and inclusiveness", - is said in the final communiqué.

The summit opened with unfortunate tensions between the United States and the Philippines. After President Rodrigo Duterte has made offensive remarks about Barack Obama the latter canceled their meeting. Instead, Obama met with South Korean President, Park Geun-hye, to discuss recent security threat posed by another North Korean missiles launch. Duerete has already expressed his regret over the insulting remarks he made, yet, the incident is likely to overshadow the first day of the conference.

Canadian municipalities want the federal government to change the way it decides how much money cities should get for transit and water projects. The changes outlined in June to the federal infrastructure minister would potentially, if implemented, give more money to smaller communities to help them build a transit system or improve private septic systems. Municipal leaders are also looking to the Liberals to set aside a significant amount of money for social housing over the coming decade, and to continue funding up to half of eligible project costs to help cities more easily manage project expenses.

Progress was definitely made during the G20 Summit, which is a step in the right direction for the global political and economic climate. Among the feats include the ratification of the Paris climate change agreement. In addition, advances in economic cooperation between Russia and China were made. However, not all the events surrounding the summit were positive. No developments were made for Russia's sake on the issue of sanctions; nor was cooperation on the Syrian crisis between Russia and the United States. Furthermore, the deployment of missile tests from North Korean toward Japan tensed up international security.

The Japanese side decided that it should lay claim to all four islands, reminded the head of state. The Soviet Union was ready to give Japan two islands of the South Kuril Islands under the agreement in 1956, but Tokyo refused to perform the contract. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin to journalists. "I want to remind you, this agreement is not a secret. In 1956, the Soviet Union received the territory as a result of the Second World War. These results are recorded in international legal documents. The Soviet Union in 1956, after a rather long and persistent negotiations with Japan signed an agreement in which it is written that the two southern islands are transferred to the Japanese side, but, nevertheless, it is written "transferred", but does not say on what conditions transferred and whose sovereignty is preserved ", - Putin said.

2,700 migrants were saved and fifteen bodies recovered on Monday, in the Mediterranean, thanks to the intervention of Italy's navy and coast guard ships. The Italian Navy said six bodies had been found earlier in the same day. The rescuers consisted of various boats from the European Union anti-smuggling mission, humanitarian groups, and also a commercial tug boat. According to Italy's Interior Ministry, it is Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War Two while the U.N. refugee agency spokesman declared that the death toll has increased to one migrant for every 42. By the end of August some 93,000 people had arrived, and according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 3,171 migrants have died or gone missing while crossing the Mediterranean this year.