It was just three weeks ago, but in political terms it seems like an aeon. Bare-chested, suntanned and smiling broadly, Matteo Salvini took a turn at a DJ's turntable at a beach club on the Italian coast while young women in leopard print bikinis gyrated in front of him.
Squabbles erupted among G7 nations yesterday as their leaders gathered for the annual summit, exposing sharp differences on global trade, Brexit and how to respond to the fires in Brazil's rainforest.
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, has doubled down in defence of his Amazon policies despite international condemnation for allowing loggers and farmers to trigger the worst wildfires on record.
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US President Donald Trump on Friday lashed back at a new round of Chinese tariffs by heaping an additional 5% duty on some $550 billion in targeted Chinese goods in the latest tit-for-tat trade war escalation by the world's two largest economies.
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European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an unfolding environmental crisis.
