United States hopes to bond with allies at G-7 summit

When leaders of some of the world’s richest nations meet Friday at the English seaside for a three-day Group of Seven summit, much of the choreography will be familiar. But the world has changed dramatically.

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June 10, 2021 - 9:20 AM

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive in Great Britain on June 9, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

LONDON (AP) — When leaders of some of the world’s richest nations meet Friday at the English seaside for a three-day Group of Seven summit, much of the choreography will be familiar.

But the world has changed dramatically.

Since the G-7 last met two years ago, the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 3.7 million people and decimated economies with lockdowns and layoffs. 

So when Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden  and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada to the cliff-ringed Carbis Bay beach resort in southwest England, pandemic recovery — “building back better,” in a phrase both Biden and Johnson like — will top the agenda.

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