Skyrocketing food prices worldwide are the result of Russia pursuing a hybrid war strategy, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock claimed on Saturday following a G7 meeting. However, Moscow immediately hit back by blaming Western sanctions for the spike. “Russia made a conscious decision to turn the war against Ukraine into a ‘grain war,’” the German minister insisted. This, she alleged,... 

Participants of the G7 meeting reportedly had a hard time restraining themselves when the US President shared his insights on migration and terrorism with the French President, threatened to send the Japanese Prime Minister 25 million Mexicans and slammed the European Commission President during talks in Canada. A senior EU official summed up his behind-the-scenes experience at the meeting of the... 

Fresh from the G7 and NATO summits that took place this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Europe must “take its fate into its own hands.” During an address at an election rally in Munich, the chancellor stated that Germany and other European countries can no longer “completely rely on others.” “We have to fight for our own destiny,” Merkel declared. Meanwhile,... 

Nearly 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coasts of Italy and Libya this week, as the leaders of G7 gathered for a summit coincidentally held in Sicily. And at least 54 people have drowned in the Mediterranean since Tuesday. Large-scale rescue efforts off the Italian coast on Friday saved 2,200 migrants who risked their lives traveling in unworthy sea vessels to reach Italy. Italian coastguard and... 

It used to be that politics ended at the water’s edge. But that was before Barack Obama. Today Barack Obama unloaded on Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Japan. Obama told reporters in Japan: “They’re rattled by him and for good reason. Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines...