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G7 ministers meet as new COVID strain spreads around the globe
Omicron, first discovered in southern Africa, represents a fresh challenge to global efforts to battle the pandemic. Several countries have already re-imposed...
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G7 calls on Tunisia president to wind back power grab
Elected in late 2019, President Kais Saied invoked the constitution to extend his authority, dismissing prime minister Hichem Mechichi and freezing parliament.
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YONELA DIKO: Why G7's 'Build Back Greener' is a big illusion
For the sake of our own survival, we need to know what we are taking from the planet that we cannot replace, writes Yonela Diko.
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G7 leaders convene summit drive for billion jabs
Welcomed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the beachside summit venue in Carbis Bay, southwest England, the leaders posed for a family photo before opening their first session of talks on "building back better" after the pandemic.
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Aspen 'starting all over again' with new batch of J&J vaccines, says Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the G7 summit on 13 June 2021 following announcements by the US FDA that J&J vaccines should no longer be administered. The president said that he had a discussion with the CEO of Aspen Pharmaceuticals, who ensured him that they were "starting all over again" with another batch of the vaccine.
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Aspen reassures Ramaphosa it is ramping up production of J&J COVID-19 vaccine
On Sunday, Ramaphosa announced that South Africa would pull two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following contamination concerns at one of the company's sites in the United States.
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G7 to agree climate, conservation targets as summit ends
The group of leading economies, holding their first in-person gathering in nearly two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, will agree to protect at least 30% of both land and ocean globally by the end of the decade.
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G7 leaders target one billion jabs and climate drive
The club of leading economies - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and United States - say a joint approach is the world's best chance for recovering from the global health crisis and tackling climate change.
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Ramaphosa to lobby for temporary waiver on vaccine property rights at G7 meeting
The group of the world's wealthiest nations is meeting in the UK this week.
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Global tax still far from becoming reality
After the accolades, an agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to set a global minimum tax on the biggest companies now faces a long, bumpy road to implementation.
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Celebrities call on G7 to share COVID-19 vaccines with poor nations
The entertainment and sports figures urged the seven countries - France, Italy, the UK, Canada, Japan, Germany and the United States - to pledge at least 20% of their supply between June and August, amounting to 150 million doses.
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Corporate tax deal tops agenda at G7 finance meet
According to a draft communique seen by AFP, the finance chiefs and central bankers of the world's seven richest nations will express "strong support" and a "high level of ambition" over a global minimum corporate tax.
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G7 to end state financing for coal power plants this year
Ahead of a leaders meeting in Britain next month, G7 countries' climate and environment ministers also reaffirmed their commitment to limit keep temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, following a two-day virtual meeting.
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China hits back at G7 rights criticism
Foreign ministers from G7 countries Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan urged China to abide by its obligations under international and national law during their first face-to-face meeting in two years in London.
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Indian FM to join G7 virtually after possible COVID-19 exposure
The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are wrapping up three days of talks in London ahead of a G7 leaders' summit next month in Cornwall in southern England.
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G7 pushes solidarity to tackle global threats
China, Myanmar, Libya, Syria and Russia are all on the formal agenda as the ministers from the club of wealthy democracies prepare for a leaders' meeting in Cornwall, southwest England, next month.
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WHO begs G7 to step up and combat COVID-19
The WHO said the Group of Seven industrial powers had the ability to fund the vaccines, tests and treatments needed to conquer the pandemic - and knock down the barriers blocking faster production.
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Biden at G7 debut vows action on climate, COVID recovery
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's chair of the club of wealthy nations, will convene the virtual talks at 1400 GMT, vowing to free up any surplus coronavirus vaccines for poorer countries at a future date.
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Russia not welcome at G7, Canada's Trudeau says
Russia was expelled from what was then the G8 in 2014 when Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was US president, after Moscow annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine.
