It’s challenging to be an activist this year, what with the pandemic, a hermetically sealed summit and a new American president who is hard to get too worked up over.
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President Biden Will Meet Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle
The royal family’s presence around the summit meeting will be unusually strong this year.
Remember the Trump Balloon? Now There’s One for Biden, Too.
Barred from staging large in-person protests at this week’s Group of 7 summit because of pandemic restrictions, activists revived an attention-drawing move.
For Scott Morrison of Australia, G7 in Cornwall Is a Homecoming of Sorts
One of the leader’s ancestors was sent from the area in southwestern England to Australia two centuries ago with hundreds of other convicts.
Eighty Years Later, Biden and Johnson Revise the Atlantic Charter for a New Era
The original was the work of Churchill and Roosevelt at the dawn of World War II. The new version pledges cooperation against 21st century global challenges and rivalries.
A ‘Flying Ship,’ and the Superior Mirage Behind It
“I told myself, ‘It must be on water,’” said a walker who took a picture that has since gone viral. “My head doesn’t want to understand that, but it must be on water.”
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race
Spurred by Brexit, London is backing companies that will build satellites and haul them into orbit.
The Plastic-Hunting Pirates of the Cornish Coast
The Clean Ocean Sailing initiative removes plastic waste from areas of England’s coastline that are inaccessible by foot.
Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of.
As the couple leave full-time royal life, they have vowed to forgo public funding. But a pledge by Prince Charles to help support them has put a spotlight on his own sources of wealth, including a billion-pound real estate conglomerate.
When the Prince of Wales Is Your Landlord
On England’s southwestern coast, a community built by the Duchy of Cornwall is attracting residents who have bought into Prince Charles’s housing philosophy.