HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on Saturday at the Group of Seven nations summit seeking to turn the page after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling an influx of migrants. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in early May that Meloni’s right-wing government had been…
By John Irish HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy touched down in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday, cameras zoomed in on the plane: a French government-labelled military aircraft. At times since Russia invaded Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic overtures have made some of his allies angry and wary of his…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, India and Japan, a group known as Quad, on Saturday pledged to uphold peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region and “oppose unilateral actions seeking change in status quo by force”, they said in a statement. They also expressed a “serious concern at the militarisation of disputed…
By Sakura Murakami and Andreas Rinke HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Japan and Germany say it is time for a rethink of how some of the world’s most powerful institutions – including the United Nations Security Council – deal with emerging countries. Outreach to the so-called “Global South”, shorthand for some low- and middle-income countries including…
(Reuters) -Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighbouring countries for prostitution. It said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as “Alex”, was the leader of an “escort and trafficking network of Iranian women and girls to some countries in the region”, the judiciary’s…
By Katya Golubkova and John Irish HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Leaders of the world’s richest democracies acted on Friday to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima stressed the need to reduce reliance on trade with China. The Group of Seven (G7) leaders,…
(Corrects paragraph 4 to restore dropped word ‘million’ in number of Turkish citizens in Germany.) By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish citizens based abroad began voting on Saturday in Turkey’s presidential runoff election between the incumbent Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who aims to bring an end to the president’s two-decade rule….
(Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) agreed on Saturday to establish an initiative to counter economic “coercion”, pledging to take steps to ensure that any actors attempting to “weaponise” economic dependence would fail and face consequences. The initiative, dubbed Coordination Platform on Economic Coercion, will use early warning and rapid information sharing…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Group of Seven leaders on Saturday agreed to a new initiative to counter economic coercion, and pledged action to ensure that any actors attempting to weaponise economic dependence would fail and face consequences. The initiative, dubbed Coordination Platform on Economic Coercion, will use early warning and rapid information sharing on economic coercion…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An internal investigation was underway over an Australian police officer who tasered a 95-year-old grandmother, leaving her in a critical condition, and it was too early to say whether charges would be laid, New South Wales police chief said on Saturday. Clare Nowland remains in hospital after being tasered by police at…
