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The Group of 7 gathers major industrialized countries, but its leaders are politically weak and Ukraine and Gaza remain unsolved.

Leaders from India, Brazil, the Middle East and Africa joined discussions in a nod to the changing global balance of power.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine addressed a virtual G7 meeting where leaders discussed the details of a donor system to aid reconstruction. Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, will skip his annual December news conference.

The Group of 7 gathers major industrialized countries, but its leaders are politically weak and Ukraine and Gaza remain unsolved.

The Treasury Department announced new sanctions on oil shippers and traders that have been helping Russia circumvent price restrictions.

The coup was announced hours after President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has controlled the country for a half-century, was declared to have been re-elected for a third term in a disputed election.

The televised announcement came hours after the Central African nation’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was re-elected for a third term.

Before Ali Bongo Ondimba was ousted in late August, he and his family had ruled over the oil-rich central African state for more than half a century.

Hailed as a climate visionary, Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was once welcomed to Buckingham Palace but was blindsided by this week’s coup.

Gabriel Attal, 34, replaces Élisabeth Borne in a cabinet shuffle that President Emmanuel Macron hopes can reinvigorate a term marked by drift and division.