G7 leaders on Friday open a three-day summit aimed at helping to end the -19 pandemic and forge a climate-centric economic recovery, after pledging to donate one billion vaccine doses for the world\u2019s poorest countries.
\nUS President Joe Biden and his colleagues from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan will sit down for their first face-to-face gathering in nearly two years, after the pandemic wiped out last year\u2019s summit.
\nMeeting under the protection of a smothering security operation in the Cornish resort of Carbis Bay, southwest England, the leaders are also expected to address warnings to Russia and China.
\nMost of the G7 heads of state and government will reconvene on Monday in Brussels for a NATO meeting, before Biden heads on to his first summit with President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, vowing to deliver a blunt appraisal of Russian behaviour.
\nAfter arriving in Britain Wednesday on his first foreign tour as president, Biden told US service personnel that \u201cthe United States is back and democracies of the world are standing together\u201d, following the tumult of his predecessor Donald Trump\u2019s go-it-alone administration.
\nThe G7\u2019s host, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the coronavirus outbreak originating in China had also \u201cbadly shaken\u201d the international order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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