U.S. President Donald Trump has skipped a discussion on climate change with other world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in France, leaving an empty chair as global power brokers debated how to help the fire-ravaged Amazon and reduce carbon emissions.

Officials say Serbia will sign a free trade agreement with a Russian-led economic bloc, which could hamper the Balkan country’s efforts to join the European Union.

The head of Germany’s central bank is warning against taking an overly pessimistic view of the economy, days after the bank cautioned that Europe’s biggest economy could enter a recession in the current quarter.

A global attempt by more than 120 countries to find a way to more fairly tax global internet giants is moving ahead despite individual countries’ deciding to impose their own tax, says the head of the international organization leading the project.

A top Iranian official paid a brief unannounced visit Sunday to the G-7 summit and was headed to the building where leaders of the world’s major democracies have been debating for nearly 24 hours over how to handle to country’s nuclear ambitions.

Countries have agreed to protect more than a dozen shark species at risk of extinction, in a move aimed at conserving some of the ocean’s most awe-inspiring creatures who have themselves become prey to commercial fishing.

Under the threatening clouds of a global economic slowdown, President Donald Trump is confronting the consequences of his preference to go it alone.

Switzerland says the European Free Trade Association, a group of four countries outside the European Union, has largely concluded a free-trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc including Brazil.

France is accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of having lied to French leader Emmanuel Macron and says it now opposes a trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur because of his environmental back-peddling.

The posturing by leaders of the G-7 rich democracies began well before they stood together for a summit photo.