Trump Attends G7 Summit Amid his Trade War with US Allies 

President Donald Trump has arrived for the G7, or Group of Seven, summit in Canada, a country he's suggested should be annexed, as he wages a trade war with America’s longstanding allies.

If there's a shared mission at this year’s G7 summit, which begins Monday in the Rocky Mountains, it's a desire to minimize any fireworks at a moment of combustible tensions.Trump says he’s focusing on trade at G7 summit

The president said a trade deal between the US and Canada is achievable, but he and Prime Minister Mark Carney approach it differently.

He said, “I have a tariff concept” because “I am a tariff person.” adding that Carney has a “more complex idea but very good.”

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UN chief heads to G7 meeting in Canada

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to Canada to take part in a session on energy security.

U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres will participate in Tuesday’s session for G7 and invited leaders on “diversification, technology and investment to ensure access and affordability in a changing world.”

The secretary-general will meet Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on the margins of the meeting, Haq said.

He said other meetings would be announced later when asked if the U.N. chief would meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

European G7 leaders held an informal meeting about Middle East

The four European G7 leaders held an informal meeting over glasses of Canadian wine on the eve of the summit Sunday night, without President Donald Trump, who had yet to arrive at the venue in the Canadian Rockies.

It started when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer bumped into German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a restaurant-bar area of the venue in the resort of Kananaskis. French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni dropped by and it became an hourlong informal meeting during which the conflict between Israel and Iran was discussed.

Efforts to de-escalate that conflict are a main focus of the two-day summit that officially started Monday.

Trump sports US-Canada lapel pin that wasn’t a gift from G7 host

Emily Williams, a spokesperson for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the G7 host, said the lapel pin “was not provided in any welcome gift from us.”

“That’s all him,” Williams said, meaning Trump.

The lapel pin features the flags of the United States and Canada. Lapel pins featuring the American flag and the host country’s flag are often worn by members of the U.S. delegation when the president is traveling abroad.

Trump is also wearing a separate American flag lapel pin.

Canadian prime minister formally opens G7 summit at ‘turning point in history’

Canada’s leader, Mark Carney, has formally opened the Group of Seven summit by telling fellow leaders they’re meeting at “one of those turning points in history.”

Carney said the world is “more divided and dangerous” than during past summits and other “hinge moments,” citing G7 gatherings after the fall of the Berlin Wall or the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States.

With the leaders of the U.S., Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy seated before him, Carney said, “the world looks to this table for leadership.”

He predicted they’d have “frank discussions” over the two-day summit and not always agree, but he said that where they do agree it will make a difference for their citizens.

G7 leaders take part in welcoming ceremony

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the host of this year’s leaders meeting, has greeted the leaders at an official welcome ceremony in front of a picturesque pine tree backdrop.

Carney and his wife, Diana Fox Carney, engaged each of the leaders in small talk before posing for photos.

Trump told Carney the setting he chose was “beautiful.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during his turn asked Carney about how his one-on-one with Trump went. The prime minister responded, “fantastic.”

Canadian tribal leader says he was ‘filled with rage’ while speaking with Trump

A Canadian tribal leader tasked with greeting world heads of state arriving for G7 says he considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived, appalled by the U.S. president’s having “caused much pain and suffering in the world.”

Instead, Steven Crowchild, said he prayed to his creator, consulted with his people’s leadership and opted to stay on the tarmac in Calgary, where he spoke at length on Sunday with Trump.

“It was really intense to say the least,” Crowchild told The Associated Press on Monday.

Crowchild wore feathered headgear, spoke in his traditional language and showed Trump tribal medals that he told the president were older than the nation of Canada.

Trump wore a white “Make America Great Again” cap.

“I almost didn’t stay. I was filled with rage,” Crowchild said, adding that he decided to remain “considering that visibility is key and diplomacy is important and there was no indigenous representation there at the time.”

US Air Force moves refueling tanker aircraft to Middle East in response to tensions, strikes

The U.S. is moving tanker aircraft to the Middle East to provide President Donald Trump additional options to defend U.S. bases and personnel in the region in wake of the ongoing ballistic missile attacks by Iran and Israel’s continued air operations against Tehran, two U.S. officials told the Associated Press.

The refueling tankers are vital to supporting any major U.S. air operation, whether it would be evacuations or a potential strike by U.S. fighter jets.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not announced publicly.