At the last G7 summit attended by Trump in 2018, his national security adviser, John Bolton, posted on social media: “Just another G7 where other countries expect America will always be their bank.

The G7 summit was established in 1975 by France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in order to find solutions to the economic crisis at the time.

The G7 summit is not the only high-stakes diplomacy this month. Nato leaders will assemble in The Hague next week, where defence spending will be top of the agenda.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo next week before flying to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attend a family photo session during the G7 Summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Monday, June 16, 2025.

Kishida will host the G7 summit this year in Hiroshima, his hometown some 418 miles southwest of Tokyo. On Aug. 6, 1945, American forces detonated an atomic bomb that killed an estimated 70,000 ...

The annual Group of Seven (G7) summit, convening this year in Hiroshima, will seek to project a unified response to an increasingly assertive China – and the perceived threat it poses to the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke with Prime Minister Mark Carney by phone today ahead of the U.S.-Russia ...

Last year’s summit was canceled because of the pandemic, making this gathering the first in-person G7 leaders’ summit in almost two years. The last was in August 2019 in Biarritz, France.

The G7 summit in Apulia, Italy presents a chance for the world’s major democracies to collectively tackle immediate challenges, while forging a path toward a more resilient and inclusive future.