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Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, left, and Yasutoshi Nishimura, right, the Japanese minister in charge of trade and the economy, attend a G-7 Trade Ministers' Meeting in Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Trade and economy officials from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies strengthened their pledge Sunday to work together to ensure smooth supply chains for essentials like energy and food despite global uncertainties.(Kyodo News via AP)

G-7 nations back strong supply chains for energy and food despite global tensions

Trade and economy officials from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have strengthened their pledge to work together to ensure smooth supply chains for essentials like energy and food despite global uncertainties.
 
FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a member of the Chinese honor guard unfurls the Chinese national flag during a flag raising ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China held at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2022. Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united in voicing concern about China. The question is how to translate that worry into action.(Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua via AP, File)

G7 stance on China complicated by huge stakes in economic ties, cooperation on global issues

 
Fireworks are viewed from Toki Messe where the G7 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors is held, in Niigata, Japan, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

G7 finance leaders vow to contain inflation, strengthen supply chains but avoid mention of China

 
Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers and central bank governors attend a group photo session ahead of their meeting in Niigata, Japan, on Friday, May 12, 2023. From top left to right, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann, President of the Eurogroup Paschal Donohoe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Jon Cunliffe, Commissioner for the Economy of European Commission Paolo Gentiloni, Governor of the Central Bank of France Francois Villeroy de Galhau, French Director General of the Treasury Emmanuel Moulin, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group President David Malpass, Chair of the Financial Stability Board Klaas Knot. From front row from left, Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, Italian Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, Governor of the Bank of Japan Kazuo Ueda, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki, Joachim Nagel, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

G-7 talks focus on ways to fortify banks, supply chains as China accuses group of hypocrisy

 
FILE - Choe Son Hui, then deputy director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of North Korea Foreign Ministry, briefs journalists outside the North Korean embassy in Beijing, China, on June 23, 2016. North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on Friday, April 21, 2023, called the Group of Seven wealthy democracies a “tool for ensuring the U.S. hegemony” as she lambasted the group’s recent call for the North’s denuclearization. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

North Korea calls its nukes ‘stark reality,’ criticizes G-7

 

Japan hosts G-7 Summit

World leaders on Thursday arrived for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda. (May 18)
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Clockwise from left, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora pose for photographs at the start of the fifth working session of a G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the Prince Karuizawa hotel in Karuizawa, Japan Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)

‘No impunity': G7 vows tough, unified stance on Russia’s war

Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed to intensify sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine as they wrapped up their meeting hosted by Japan on Tuesday.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waits behind closed doors before giving a joint statement with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on the situation in Sudan during a G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at The Prince Karuizawa hotel in Karuizawa, Japan, Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

G-7 diplomats reject Chinese, N. Korean, Russian aggression

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are vowing a tough stance on China’s increasing threats to Taiwan and on North Korea’s unchecked tests of long-range missiles.
 
G-7 ministers on climate, energy and environment pose for a photo during its photo session in Sapporo, northern Japan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Front row, from left are Vannia Gava, Italy's Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Ecological Transition, EU Oceans and Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, Italy's Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Japan's Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura, Japan's Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Germany's Economy and Climate Minister Patrick Graichen. Back row, from left are U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, France's Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France's Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Bechu, Britain's Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and Britain's Energy Secretary Grant Shapps. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

G7 vows to step up moves to renewable energy, zero carbon

Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations have vowed to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, right, holds up his boarding card as he is greeted by Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, left, as he boards a train at Tokyo Station in Tokyo, Sunday, April 16, 2023, to travel to Karuizawa, Japan for a G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Diplomats gather in Japan at ‘historic turning point’

Top diplomats from Europe and North America are arriving in the hot spring resort town of Karuizawa, Japan, to discuss the world’s most intractable crises, including ways to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, confront China’s aggression toward Taiwan and lure North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks.
 
Japan's Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, center left, with Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura, center right, speaks at the beginning of a plenary session in the G-7 ministers' meeting on climate, energy and environment as they co-chair the meeting in Sapporo, northern Japan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

G7 energy, environment leaders haggle over climate strategy

Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations are meeting in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo to try to forge an agreement on the best way forward in battling climate change.
 
Japanese LGBTQ activists and support groups pose for a photo during their first engagement group summit of Pride Seven in Tokyo, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Japanese LGBTQ activists and supporters on Thursday held the inaugural Pride 7 Summit in Tokyo, where they called on Group of Seven governments to promote and strengthen support and legal protections for LGBTQ people and urged Japan's government to enact an anti-discrimination law before it hosts this year’s G-7 summit in May. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

LGBTQ summit calls on Japan to enact anti-discrimination law

Japanese LGBTQ activists and supporters on Thursday held an inaugural Pride 7 Summit in Tokyo, where they called on Group of Seven governments to promote and strengthen support and legal protections for LGBTQ people and urged Japan’s government to enact an anti-discrimination law before it hosts thi
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during his press conference in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Kishida said Friday he plans to present to other Group of Seven countries a set of "new ideas" for sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine when he hosts an online G-7 summit to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion. (Stanislav Kogiku/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, other G-7 leaders step up Russia sanctions

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Group of Seven leaders have adopted a set of additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine at an online G-7 summit to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion.
 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz briefs the media after a virtual meeting of the G7 leaders, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

G7 establishes climate club to fight global warming

The Group of Seven leading economies have created an open and international climate club in which countries are to cooperate in the fight against global warming.
 
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 8, 2020 file photo, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves number 11 Downing Street, to deliver a financial announcement to the Houses of Parliament in London. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have a lot to talk about when they gather in London starting Friday, June 4, 2021. Ministers at the meeting chaired by Britain's Rishi Sunak and to be attended by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will talk about supporting the post-pandemic economic recovery and work on restoring cooperation among the seven allies after friction during the term of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Biden tax proposal in focus at Group of 7 ministers’ meeting

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have a lot to talk about when they gather in London starting Friday. A major topic will be U.S.
 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Blinken off to London, Kyiv as Ukraine questions resurface

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to Europe next week for critical talks on Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan and frayed transatlantic ties that the Biden administration hopes to repair.
 

Trump ‘evolving’ on climate action, pressured by Europeans

TAORMINA, Italy (AP) — Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump “more knowledgeable” and with “evolving” views about the global climate accord he’s threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday.
 

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