WASHINGTON - Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who has shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change, took her mission to President Donald Trump's doorstep on Friday with a protest outside the White House.
The demonstration marked the first high-profile event of her six-day visit to Washington, intended to pressure the Trump administration ahead of a United Nations climate summit, where world leaders will be asked to ramp up their-carbon cutting ambitions to fend off global warming. The 16-year-old activist last year started missing school every Friday to demonstrate outside Sweden's parliament and is bound for New York later this month, where she will take part in the UN climate summit.
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