TAORMINA, Italy (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed leading the fight against terrorism on Friday (May 26) as they met at this year’s Group of Seven (G7) summit, hosted in the chic Sicilian resort town of Taormina.
May is expected to leave a day early, following Monday’s (May 22) suicide bombing at a concert in northern England that killed 22 people and was allegedly carried out by a young Islamist militant of Libyan descent who grew up in Britain.
Macron expressed his condolences saying France was familiar with these kind of attacks as more than 230 people have died in the past two years at the hands of attackers allied with the militant group Islamic State, whose strongholds in Syria and Iraq are being bombed by an international coalition including France and Britain.
Both heads of state said they looked forward to working together and debating about an array of international issues, including Syria, North Korea and the global economy.