G7 Group of Seven industrial powers

Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019. (Joao Laet / AFP)

September 3, 2019, 11:21 pm

Israel sends group to help Brazil battle Amazon fires

Eleven-member team of firefighters and rescuers to assist local authorities with search-and-rescue operations as Bolsonaro feuds with Europe on environmental issues

By TOI staff and Agencies

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at the Elysee Palace in Paris on June 5, 2018. (AFP/Ludovic Marin)

August 30, 2019, 5:18 pm

Netanyahu tells Macron ‘now is precisely not the time to talk to Iran’

PM cites Tehran’s rising regional aggression in call with French leader; NY Times report says officials in Islamic Republic believe talks with Trump inevitable

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, on September 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

August 30, 2019, 4:41 am

Netanyahu said to have ‘frantically’ tried to reach Trump over Iran talks fears

PM was unable to get hold of US president to convince him not to meet with top Tehran diplomat Zarif at G7, according to report, as Israel worries over Trump-Rouhani summit

By TOI staff

In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017 file photo, US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

August 28, 2019, 6:42 pm

Trump envoy says peace plan won’t be released before Israeli elections

After president toys with revealing details of proposal before September vote, Jason Greenblatt rules it out; Netanyahu: Plan will likely be presented ‘very soon’ after election

By Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after their joint press conference at the G7 summit on August 26, 2019 in Biarritz, southwestern France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

August 27, 2019, 4:37 pm

Macron says US-Iran rapprochement ‘fragile’ but possible

French president says he’s hopeful, even as Iran’s Rouhani and Zarif insist no meeting or talks possible until US ends sanctions

By AP and TOI staff

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting during his provincial tour to the North Khorasan, Iran, July 14, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

August 27, 2019, 3:43 pm

Iran appears to shut door on Trump-Rouhani meeting

Iranian lawmakers reportedly preparing a resolution condemning and prohibiting further talks with the United States

By TOI staff and AP

From left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, first lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump, arrive for the G-7 family photo at G-7 summit at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

August 27, 2019, 11:59 am

Internet sizzles over Melania Trump making googly eyes at Trudeau

President’s wife latest prominent personality to get lost in wilderness of dashing Canadian prime minister’s peepers

By TOI staff and AP

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)

August 26, 2019, 10:24 pm

Israel alarmed by possible Trump-Rouhani talks, fears he’ll let Iran off hook

Ministers said to cite US president’s dialogue with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as disturbing precedent, ‘but our capacity to influence and confront Trump is extremely limited’

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron gesture during a joint press conference on August 26, 2019, the third day of the annual G7 Summit in Biarritz, south-west France. (Nicholas Kamm /AFP)

August 26, 2019, 8:11 pm

Trump says open to meeting Iran’s Rouhani, a ‘great negotiator,’ in coming weeks

French president says G7 diplomacy created conditions for historic summit; Trump says meeting with Iranian president requires ‘correct circumstances’ but will have to happen

By AFP and TOI staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and US President Donald Trump speak during a bilateral meeting on the third day of the annual G7 Summit in Biarritz, south-west France, August 26, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

August 26, 2019, 5:12 pm

At G7 summit Merkel hails ‘big step forward’ in Iran talks

Trump says there is ‘unity’ among leading industrial nations group on preventing Iranians from obtaining nuclear weapons, reassures he is not seeking regime change in Tehran

By AFP

US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron talk before a family picture with G7 leaders and guests at the G7 summit in Biarritz, southwest France, on August 25, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

August 26, 2019, 12:04 pm

Trump says he doesn’t want regime change in Iran, but ‘too soon’ to meet Zarif

US president says he supported Tehran’s foreign minister dropping in on G7 summit of world leaders, believes Iran ‘is going to change’

By Agencies and TOI staff

US President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (out of shot) in Biarritz, southwest France on August 26, 2019, on the third day of the annual G7 Summit. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

August 26, 2019, 11:15 am

Trump may reveal peace plan before Israeli elections, thinks deal ‘will happen’

On sidelines of G7 summit, US president says both sides are ready to negotiate a deal, Palestinians would like to get their US funding back

By TOI staff

From left to right: Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, European Council President Donald Tusk, US President Donald Trump, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a working session at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, southwest France, on August 25, 2019. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool/AFP)

August 26, 2019, 9:36 am

G7 wrestles with Iran, Amazon fires and trade, but its own unity is shaky

Differences on major global issues between US, fellow G7 states cast shadow over annual gathering of leaders from world’s main democracies

By Adam PLOWRIGHT, Sebastian Smith and Stuart Williams

Neri dos Santos Silva, center, watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

August 26, 2019, 1:35 am

Netanyahu offers Brazil help in fighting devastating Amazon fires

Israel to send aircraft, flame-retardant materials; PM joins global leaders expressing concern over massive blazes in ‘the lungs of the world’

By TOI staff and AP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif poses for a photograph during an interview at the residence of Iranian ambassador in Paris on August 23, 2019. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP)

August 25, 2019, 7:06 pm

Iran’s top diplomat blows into G7 summit after surprise invite from France

Foreign Minister Zarif hurries into meeting with French counterpart; not scheduled to meet American officials

By Sylvie Corbet, Lori Hinnant and DARLENE SUPERVILLE