CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom: G7 leaders on Sunday vowed to start delivering one billion doses of Covid vaccines and to step up action on climate change, in a summit call to arms by a revived democratic alliance that also confronted China and Russia. A White House official agreed the three-day gathering in Cornwall, southwest England, had been an "unusually substantive and productive G7." India and South Africa, who took part in the G7 talks as guests, had pressed for the gathering to waive intellectual property rights on Western vaccines. Extinction Rebellion environmental activists with masks of G7 leaders protest in the water in St Ives, Cornwall during the G7 summit on June 13, 2021. They demanded China end abuses including forced labor in Xinjiang, where activists say up to one million people from Uyghur and other Muslim minorities are interned in camps, and in Hong Kong.

Source: Manila Times June 13, 2021 15:22 UTC