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BANFF — When world leaders gathered for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it was an awkward situation: Just months before, Vladimir Putin’s Russia had invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea. That invasion precipitated a diplomatic and military crisis that, more than 10 years later, is still unfolding. And in one of the earliest signs of the international community’s resistance to Russian belligerence, the leaders of the world’s advanced economies ejected Russia from the G8, in March of that year. “Personally, and I only speak for Canada here, I don’t see any way of a return of Mr...

French president Emmanuel Macron has come out strongly against U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about annexing Greenland, making his comments during a stop in Denmark’s island territory ahead of the G7 meeting. Macron paid a visit to Greenland on Sunday, on his way to the G7 conference in Kananaskis, Alta. He became the first foreign leader to visit the region since Trump’s recent talk of annexation, and was openly critical of those plans. Reuters reports that , when asked on his arrival about Trump’s ambitions,...