US President Donald Trump will skip scheduled sessions on climate change, clean energy and oceans during the two-day G7 Summit in Canada, the White House announced. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, announced that Trump will attend an early-morning session on "women's empowerment", but he will be gone before any joint statement is issued by the other leaders.

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lashed out at Trump for imposing tariffs on their steel and aluminium industries. "The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a six country agreement if need be," Macron tweeted.