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G-7 leaders dedicate $20 million to fight Amazon fires

By Associated Press

Macron said the U.S. supported the initiative, although he acknowledged that President Donald Trump had skipped Monday's working session on the environment.

Indonesia to move capital from Jakarta to Borneo

By Niniek Karmini, Associated Press

The country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans.

Trump says he approved of Iran's diplomat coming to G-7

By Lori Hinnant, Sylvie Corbet, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron's invited Iran's foreign minister to the sidelines of the G-7 in hopes that he could secure a breakthrough in global tensions over Iran's nuclear program.

Trump claims serious trade negotiations to begin with China

By Zeke Miller, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

Trump said his trade negotiators had received two "very good calls" from China Sunday. A spokesman for China's foreign ministry said he didn't know what Trump was talking about.

G-7 leaders push back against Trump at this year's summit

After a contentious meeting with some of the world's wealthiest democracies last year, President Trump on Sunday made a volley of comments at the 2019 G-7 summit in France, on everything from the trade war with China to Brexit to…

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Palestinian cookbook celebrates a culture without a country

By Pavni Mittal, Hari Sreenivasan

Food writer Yasmin Khan's latest release, "Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen," catalogs 80 Palestinian recipes and delves into the complexities of Palestinian culinary heritage under Israeli occupation. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Khan about her travels through Israel, the West…

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Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

By Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Michael Gavin, The Conversation

Collectively, human beings speak more than 7,000 distinct languages, and these languages are not uniformly distributed across the planet.

Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

By Angela Charlton, Elaine Ganley, Associated Press

Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.

Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, U.S. tensions

By Jon Gambrell, Josef Federman, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Best G-7 can do for global economy: just don't make it worse

By David McHugh, Associated Press

The global economy craves a double shot of confidence right now but the best that leaders of the Group of Seven can offer is a less intoxicating cocktail: not making things worse.