G7 Summit Fails to Agree Sanctions over Syria

Foreign ministers from the G-7 nations have rejected a call by Britain for additional sanctions against Russia to get it to abandon the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. The Italian foreign minister (Angelino Alfano) said the ministers did not want to back Russia into a corner, preferring dialogue, African migrants are 'being bought and sold' in Libya in what are being described as slave markets, United Airlines social media backlash.

(Photo: Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G7 in Lucca; credit: European Photopress Agency)