Obama, Gaddafi shake hands at G8 dinner
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi met his first US president on Thursday, shaking hands with Barack Obama and sitting just one place away from him at a dinner for world leaders at a G8 summit in Italy.
The two leaders were photographed greeting each other and television images later showed Obama and Gaddafi - who wore ruby red- and gold-flecked robes and hat - separated only by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the dinner table. Strained for many years over Libyan support for groups Washington considers terrorist, US-Libyan ties have thawed in recent years. (Reuters)
