US President Donald Trump has retracted his endorsement of the joint communique issued at the end of the G7 summit, accusing Canada of “dishonesty.”
He said that other countries were imposing “massive tariffs” on the US.
The joint communique, advocating a “rules-based trading system,” was reached despite tension over US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed afterwards to press ahead with retaliatory tariffs on July 1.
Speaking at a news conference, he described as “insulting” Mr. Trump’s decision to invoke national security concerns to justify steel and aluminium tariffs.
It would be with regret but it would be with absolute clarity and firmness that we move forward “with retaliatory measures on 1 July,” Mr. Trudeau said. “Canadians are polite and reasonable but we will also not be pushed around,” he was quoted by BBC as saying.
His words contained nothing he had not said before, both in public and in private conversations with Mr. Trump, his office said later.
The EU said it would stick to the joint communique despite Mr. Trump’s decision.
“We stand by the commitments made in the G7 communique,” according to BBC quoting a senior UK government source.
Tweeting en route to his next summit in Singapore, Mr. Trump said he had instructed US officials “not to endorse the communique as we look at tariffs on automobiles.”
He said the move was based on Mr. Trudeau’s “false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive tariffs to our US farmers, workers and companies.”
He suggested Mr. Trudeau was “very dishonest and weak.”
Susanna Maria Feldman: Iraqi murder suspect returned to Germany
An Iraqi man who reportedly confessed to raping and killing a German teenage girl has been deported back to Germany.
Ali Bashar, a failed asylum seeker aged 20, disappeared after Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, was found strangled near the city of Wiesbaden last month.
He was detained on Friday in Iraqi Kurdistan and police there say he confessed to the crime.
Armed and masked police officers escorted him to police headquarters in Wiesbaden on Saturday.
“I’m delighted that the suspect will be tried in Germany,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.
The case has renewed debate in Germany over immigration policy.
Police in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region say they arrested Mr. Bashar in his home region of Duhok after being contacted by the German authorities.
The girl’s mother reported her missing on 23 May.
Susanna’s body was found in a wooded area near a centre for asylum seekers where Mr. Bashar and his family lived.
She had been strangled and sexually assaulted.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was widely criticised over her decision to open Germany’s borders during Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015.
More than a million migrants arrived in the country as a result.
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G7 summit makes $3bn pledge for girls’ education
Canada has said it plans to provide $2.9bn (£2.2bn; €2.5bn) with the help of its G7 partners to fund education for the world’s poorest girls and women.
The money will help fund equal access to education and learning opportunities in countries across the globe, a government statement said.
The announcement on Saturday was delayed as contributors including Germany, Japan, the UK, the EU and the World Bank, continued to commit funds.
The G7 summit was held in Quebec.
It is an annual event bringing together Canada, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Japan and Germany, which represent more than 60% of global net worth between them.
The Canadian government said commitments to the education fund announced on Saturdayrepresented “the single largest investment in education for women and girls in crisis and conflict situations.”
The proposed investment, it said, could help educate more than eight million children and teenagers.
First James Bond girl Eunice Gayson dies at 90
Eunice Gayson – the actress who played the first “Bond girl” – has died at the age of 90.
She played Sylvia Trench in 007’s 1962 debut, Dr No.
During the filming, Gayson helped calm Sean Connery’s nerves so he could deliver the spy’s most famous catchphrase – giving his name as “Bond, James Bond” – for the first time.
A post on her official Twitter feed said: “She will be very much missed.”
Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the Bond series, said in a statement: “We are so sad to learn that Eunice Gayson, our very first ‘Bond girl’, who played Sylvia Trench in Dr. No and From Russia With Love, has passed away. Our sincere thoughts are with her family.”
In her role as Sylvia Trench, Gayson, who died on 8 June, helped to create one of cinema’s most enduring catchphrases.
Meeting 007 over cards at the Le Cercle Club casino, she suggests raising the stakes. Bond replies: “I admire your courage, Miss, er… ?”
“Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr… ?”
“Bond, James Bond.”
Gayson said in 2012 that filming the scene had not been easy as Sean Connery struggled with the line.
