US announces G8 summit venue switch

The White House abruptly announced that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington.

US announces G8 summit venue switch

The White House abruptly announced that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington.

It was an unusually late location change for a large and highly scripted international summit and came with little explanation from the White House.

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