Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are converging on southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies like Canada over defense spending and trade. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand tells The Associated Press "the relationship has to continue across a range of issues." Anand hosts U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday. Anand also has invited the foreign ministers of Australia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine. The meeting comes after the U.S. ended trade talks with Canada when the Ontario provincial government ran an anti-tariff advertisement.

World leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Canada scrambled Monday to find a way to contain the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. President Donald Trump repeated his belief that Tehran already had a chance for negotiations and needed to return to the bargaining table before it was "too late." The U.S. president said that Iranian leaders would "like to talk" but they had "60 days" to reach an agreement to curb their development of nuclear weapons, but they failed to do so before an Israeli aerial assault began four years ago. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants a joint statement from Europe that would stress Iran cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons-capable material.

Pope Francis has challenged leaders of the world's wealthy democracies to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence. He warned that human relations themselves could be reduced to algorithms. Francis brought his moral authority to bear on the Group of Seven. In doing so, he became the first pope to attend the G7, offering an ethical take on an issue that is increasingly on the agenda of international summits, government policy and corporate boards alike. The final G7 communique largely reflected his concerns. The leaders pledged to better coordinate the governance and regulatory frameworks surrounding AI to keep it "human-centered."

Russian forces have launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people a day before a high-profile meeting where leaders of countries that are some of Ukraine's biggest backers are to discuss how to slow Moscow's offensive. Ukrainian authorities say that along with the nine killed, 29 people were wounded when Russian missiles hit an apartment block in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, on Wednesday. He says the strike has again proven the need for the West to help strengthen Ukrainian air defenses. Zelenskyy has repeatedly appealed to Kyiv's Western partners to provide more air defense systems, and the United States has agreed to send another Patriot missile system,