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Talks between Washington and Beijing on ending what President Trump says is a massively unfair trade relationship have hit a brick wall

US President Donald Trump on Sunday backed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the "right man" for Brexit as the two leaders held a warm first meeting at a G7 summit marked by tensions over trade and worries about the Amazon.Johnson and Trump were on obviously friendly terms as they sat down for a working breakfast in the southern French resort of Biarritz where Group of Seven leaders have gathered this weekend.

Some banks are currently planning to equip the new debit cards with the ability to make payments online, as is common elsewhere

The summit will also be a debut for Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Johnson said he didn't want to get into "any post-Brexit eschatology" with Donald Tusk before touching down in Biarritz where he was welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte

Some demonstrators even donned traditional Basque shepherd costumes, despite the late summer heat

G7s always used to be cozy affairs but Trump will join the the summit at the seaside resort of Biarritz in a feisty mood

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson places his foot on the table during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron (at the Elysee Palace in Paris

Japan's Kei Nishikori is among the lower seeds who could be a threat at the US Open

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says Macron has made some suggestions on the nuclear deal that are 'moving in the right direction'

Six EU countries Friday agreed to take in 356 migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after a two-week standoff again exposed the failure of European leaders to deal quickly with desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa.The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run by charities MSF and SOS Mediterranee, had been seeking a port after rescuing four boats of migrants off the Libyan coast between August 9 and 12.

The following infographic shows the eight largest economies by share of global GDP between 1980 and 2019.

This Mato Grosso Firefighters Department handout picture shows a firefighter giving water to an armadillo during the inspection of a recently burned forest area near Nova Mutum, in Mato Grosso state

Interest rates for US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, 2005-2019.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attributes the fires to increased drought, and accuses environmental groups and NGOs of whipping up an "environmental psychosis"

Serena Williams, right, and Maria Sharapova will meet in a first-round match next week at the US Open

Map of Northern Ireland and the border with the Irish Republic.

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes.Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter. #PrayforAmazonas is the top trending hashtag in the world on Wednesday, with more than 249,000 tweets."No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user.

The G7 summit in Biarritz, France from August 24–26 will end without any formal agreement for the first time in its 44-year history. President Donald Trump had refused to sign a joint statement at the Ottawa G7 summit last year.

An eight-year German boy took his mother’s car on a joy ride on a highway in western Germany, managing to reach 87 miles per hour. He was found by police and his mother shortly after she called the authorities. He was in tears and said he just wanted to drive a little.

The ECB is worried