The president’s first international summit of his second term comes ahead of a new tariff deadline and amid a Middle East crisis.

As Mark Carney prepares to host world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in western Canada, he’s showing off a foreign policy that’s more hardheaded than that of Justin Trudeau.

Mr Carney is hosting world leaders for the G7 summit in Kananaskis in Alberta, where the US president will be joined alongside premiers of France, Italy, Japan, Germany, and the EU. Starting on Sunday, three days of talks will take place which will include security, the global economy and Ukraine.

Sir Keir Starmer has directly challenged Donald Trump by declaring that "Canada is an independent, sovereign country and a much-valued member of the Commonwealth". The Prime Minister gave his stout defence of Canada as the country has been rocked by the President's claim that he wants to annex it as the 51st state of America.

Keir Starmer said Canada was an 'independent, sovereign nation' and 'a much-valued member of the Commonwealth' - after Donald Trump described it as 'the 51st state' of America'

Keir Starmer has delivered a veiled swipe at Donald Trump by hailing 'independent, sovereign' Canada. The PM gave his strongest response yet to the president's push to turn Canada into a US state as he met counterpart Mark Carney in Ottawa.

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.

Canadian politician Charlie Angus delivered a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming that Trump’s “authoritarian regime” means the U.S. and Canada are no longer allies. Angus,