Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Japan for the G7 summit where he's been meeting world leaders He was greeted with an embrace by UK PM Rishi Sunak, who welcomed him to Hiroshima saying: ...

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African leaders used the G20 Compact with Africa summit in Berlin to call attention to Africa's "colossal" need for more investment and for "positive competition" between Europe and China. The need ...

In the immediate hours after those astonishing exchanges between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, European leaders, one after another, offered their public support ...

It's approaching midnight in Hiroshima, and now seems like a good time to pause our live coverage of the G7 summit for today. It was a frenetic day of diplomacy for leaders of the rich allied nations, ...

Away from the summit, where Ukraine has been front and centre, the battle for Bakhmut continues, with Kyiv denying claims from Russia's Wagner group that it had taken full control of the eastern city.