The G7 ministers added that they hoped to start distributing funds from a $50 billion loan package stemming from frozen Russian assets by the end of the year. They also pledged to act against groups helping Russia to evade sanctions imposed on it after its invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.

The Group of Seven (G7) countries plan to intensify pressure on China by adopting stronger language in a communiqué concerning Beijing and pledging new measures in response to China's support for Russia.

Italy, which currently chairs the G7, said on Monday it wanted to try to forge a common position about the ICC arrest warrant at a two-day meeting it hosted in the spa town of Fiuggi and which ended on Tuesday. A draft of the final statement due to emerge ...

The summit in Italy is the first since Donald Trump's re-election to the White House and the last under an Italian presidency.View on euronews

G7 leaders are facing a tough decision: whether to execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or continue cooperating with him to resolve the Middle East conflict,