Efforts to salvage consensus among the G7 nations have frayed before the official start of their summit in France in the face of US president Donald Trump's unpredictable America-first approach.
German chancellor Angela Merkel has said the G7 leaders “cannot be silent” in the face of fires sweeping parts of Brazil's Amazon, and will call for everything to be done to halt them.
An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid growing tensions between Tehran and Washington has changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey after Greece said it would not risk its relations with America by aiding the vessel.
An employee at the British Consulate in Hong Kong who was detained on the mainland has been released, Chinese police have said.
A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station.
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.
US president Donald Trump is set to confront the consequences of his preference for going it alone in an interconnected world as he heads into a summit of global economic powers.
