President Donald Trump has been holding calls with world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of the summit about the escalating Israel-Iran conflict.

Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers will arrive in the Canadian Rockies on Sunday for a Group of Seven summit shadowed by a widening war in the Middle East, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war with allies and

Group of Seven leaders including US President Donald Trump headed Sunday to the Canadian Rockies for a summit that takes on new urgency after Israel attacked Iran. Trump spoke by telephone with Putin on Saturday both about the Israel-Iran conflict and Ukraine.

Diplomats said Canada has ditched the idea of a traditional joint communiqué and would issue chair summaries in hopes of containing a disaster and maintaining engagement with the U.S.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will welcome leaders of the world's most powerful democratic countries Sunday for the start of a three-day meeting in the Rocky Mountains — a high-stakes summit that longtime G7 observers say could be one of the most consequential in years.

President Donald Trump will return to the world stage for this weekend’s 50th Group of Seven leaders summit in Canada. But Trump’s first multilateral summit of his second administration comes as Israel and Iran push the Middle East to the precipice of war and many of his G7 allies are under pressure

By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba heads to Canada on Sunday for trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, hoping to persuade him to drop trade tariffs that have imperilled Japan's auto companies and threaten to undermine his fragile government.

Established in the 1970s to show solidarity in shepherding the global economy, the G7 finds itself at a crossroads on its 50th anniversary. The gathering of the world's richest democracies has faced squabbles and questions about it relevance in the past.

President Trump will attend the G7 summit on Sunday in a nation he threatened to annex. He will also be an outlier on climate issues