Canada’s leader Mark Carney formally opens the G7 summit saying the meeting falls at “one of those turning points in history.”

Leaders of some of the world's wealthiest countries have descended on a luxury mountain lodge nestled in Canada's Rockies for this year's G7 summit. The elite gathering comes as western allies face numerous crises,

"If I may say, from a Canadian perspective, the strength of the ties between our countries are great," Carney told South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The Group of Seven summit has opened in Canada with world leaders scrambling to contain the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.

President Donald Trump opened the 2025 Group of Seven leaders’ summit by complaining it was a “mistake” for the multilateral organization to remove Russia from its ranks. “The G7 used to be the G8. [Former President]Barack Obama and a person named [former Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in,