Doctors treating Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner say she is in “stable condition” in hospital, but she will have to rest for a minimum of ten days after discharge because of a bacterial infection.  As a result, CFK has cancelled her planned trip to Brisbane for next week’s G20 Summit.

Fernandez checked herself into a hospital in Buenos Aires on Sunday with an infectious fever.  The diagnosis was sigmoiditis, an inflammation or infection of the sigmoid colon.  She had to cancel her planned commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the signing of a peace treaty with Chile, which was supposed to be alongside Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.

This is the third in a series of health difficulties for CFK.  She missed this year’s Independence Day parade because of a throat infection, and was out of commission for several weeks last year because of intracranial hematoma, or bleeding in the brain.

In other G20 news, Russian President Vladimir Putin may just have that meeting with Prime Minister Tony Abbott.  Last month, Abbott said he’d “shirtfront” the Russian president at the G20 about the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which killed 38 Australian citizens and residents.  But before the G20, the two will be in the same place at the same time for the APEC summit in Beijing this weekend. 

“They will have an opportunity to have talks on the sidelines of one or another summit in any case,” said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.