Uncertain how firm the group’s commitments will be on coronavirus vaccines
Leaders mingled with Queen Elizabeth II at a royal reception on their first evening
Updated 13 June 2021
June 13, 2021 06:46
FALMOUTH, England: The Group of Seven leaders aim to end their first summit in two years with a punchy set of promises Sunday, including vaccinating the world against coronavirus, making huge corporations pay their fair share of taxes and tackling climate change with a blend of technology and money.
They want to show that international cooperation is back after the upheavals caused both by the pandemic and the unpredictability of former US President Donald Trump. And they want to convey that the club of wealthy democracies Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States is a better friend to poorer nations than authoritarian rivals such as China.
BEIRUT: The Lebanese army on Sunday said it intercepted a small boat carrying 11 people, mostly Syrians, attempting an illegal sea crossing out of the crisis-hit country. A statement said a naval force spotted the boat off the northern port city of Tripoli and that its passengers were all detained and referred for investigation, the army added. The boat was carrying “10 people
KARACHI: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) recently completed voluntary medical campaigns in Pakistan to combat blindness and its associated diseases. During the two campaigns in Karachi, 4,000 medical examinations and 400 surgeries were performed, and 400 spectacles disbursed. In Shikarpur, 4,500 medical examinations and 425 cataract surgeries were
DUBAI: Day one of London Fashion Week kicked off on June 12 with a striking digital presentation from London-based Emirati menswear label Qasimi titled “Between Ashes and Roses” – inspired by Syrian poet Adunis’s 2004 book of the same name. Hoor Al-Qasimi, the creative director, presented the brand’s Spring 2022 ready-to-wear collection via an eight-minute runway film staged
DUBAI: Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB) is a top pick of Neem Brokerage because of its attractive price-to-book ratio. It comes after the lender’s stock fell to its lowest levels since 2016 last week. The stock is down by more than 16 percent since the start of the year. “We see it is a huge opportunity,” Allen Sandeep, research director at Neem Brokerage told