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Ministers pose for a family photo on the second day of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Cernay-la-Ville near Paris, yesterday. (Reuters) G7 allies were yesterday pressing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for clarity on American plans for Iran almost one month into the war in the Middle East, with concern also intensifying over the extent of co-operation between Russia and the Islamic republic.Having skipped the first day of the meeting at the historic monastery turned luxury hotel complex outside Paris, Rubio arrived at the Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey for a full day of talks with counterparts from leading industrialised democracies.German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the international community needed to collaborate even more closely now it was dealing with two wars — including the conflict sparked by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine — in which Russia and Iran were co-operating."We need to strengthen our unity. Given that Iran and Russia are working together in the closest way, we must stand even closer together," Wadephul told reporters.He told German radio earlier ahead of the talks that allies needed to know "how the US will proceed" in Iran. Rubio, he said, would "perhaps explain this more precisely".In contrast to usual protocol, and in a sign of the distance between the US and its allies, there is to be no joint communique at the end of the meeting.Instead, the G7 presidency, which France holds this year, will issue a statement, said a diplomatic source who asked not to be named.The UK's foreign minister Yvette Cooper urged a "swift resolution to this conflict that restores regional stability".She echoed concerns over the ongoing de facto blockade by Iran of the key Strait of Hormuz, which has driven up global oil prices and left vessels queueing up to enter the energy bottleneck."Frankly, Iran cannot be able to just hold the global economy hostage as a result of a Strait which is about international shipping routes and the freedom of navigation," she said.It is Rubio's first trip abroad since the US and Israel launched the war with the air strikes on February 28 that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei.Before leaving for France, Rubio said Thursday that it was in the "interest" of all G7 nations to push for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.Defending the war, he said: "The president is not just doing a favour to the US and to our people. This is for the world."With Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in attendance, European ministers are keen to emphasise support for Kyiv must not be forgotten over four years after Russia's full-scale invasion."Putin is cynically hoping that the escalation in the Middle East will divert our attention from his crimes in Ukraine," Wadephul said."This calculation must not succeed," he said, warning that any compromising on Ukraine's defence capabilities would "play into Putin's hands".Writing on X, in his first comment on the meeting, Rubio said he had reiterated at the G7 "that President Trump is committed to reaching a ceasefire and negotiated settlement to the Russia-Ukraine war as soon as possible".France is eager to broaden the scope of the elite G7 club — whose origins go back to the first G6 summit held in the nearby Chateau de Rambouillet in 1975 — and which now comprises Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, UK and US.It has invited foreign ministers from key emerging markets Brazil and India, as well as Saudi Arabia and South Korea.The event is leading up to a G7 summit in the French Alpine lakeside resort of Evian in June to be chaired by President Emmanuel Macron.The South African presidency Thursday alleged Washington had urged Paris to disinvite President Cyril Ramaphosa from that summit. But French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Kenya — rather than South Africa — had been invited. "We did not give in to any pressure," he said.
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz said yesterday that if the energy crisis sparked by the Middle East war dragged on, Germany might have to keep running coal-fired power plants longer than planned.Germany has committed as part of its climate plans to gradually shutting down plants fired by anthracite and lignite and complete the coal phase-out by 2038 at the latest.'If the energy crisis continues and a shortage actually occurs, we may even have to keep existing coal-fired power plants online for longer,' Merz told a forum in Frankfurt organised by the FAZ newspaper.'We have to supply this country with electricity. I am not prepared to jeopardise the core of our industry just because we have decided on phase-out plans that have become unrealistic.'Europe's biggest economy has for decades pushed an energy transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy by building up wind, solar and other clean and renewable energy sources.While the Merz government has pledged to stick to national climate targets, it has prioritised boosting the stagnating economy and scrapped some green energy initiatives.Under Merz, Germany has lobbied for the EU to weaken the phase-out of combustion engine car sales, proposed ending subsidies for rooftop solar panels and reversed a law mandating green heating for buildings.His Economy and Energy Minister, Katherina Reiche, speaking at an oil and gas conference in Houston, Texas this week, called for more 'flexibility' in EU plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, sparking protests at home and abroad.Yesterday, Merz said he was committed to the further expansion of renewable energies, but said they must be supplemented by new gas-fired power plants.Under ex-chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany moved to shut down nuclear power in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.Merz said yesterday the decommissioned reactors would have to stay shut for technical reasons.But he also said that he envisions Germany participating in research on small modular nuclear reactors, and, ultimately, building nuclear fusion reactors.
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Recent jury verdicts in California and New Mexico involving Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s Google are sharpening scrutiny of social media companies as plaintiffs advance legal theories aimed at holding platforms liable for harm to children. Here’s a look at how the cases could be an early test of how courts may handle similar claims going forward. The jury ordered Meta and Google on Wednesday to pay a combined $6mn in damages to plaintiff Kaley GM, a 20-year-old who said she suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts after becoming addicted to the companies’ platforms at a young age because of their attention-grabbing design. The jury found that both Meta and Google were negligent in designing their platforms and failed to warn consumers about their risks. Separately, a jury in New Mexico on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375mn after finding the company misled users about the safety of Facebook and Instagram while enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms in a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. The trials were the first to test whether Big Tech can be held liable for the design of apps blamed for harming young people’s well-being. Meta, Snapchat and parent Snap Inc, Google’s YouTube, and TikTok and parent ByteDance are facing thousands of lawsuits in federal and state courts over claims they knowingly designed their platforms with features that addict children and teens, fueling a mental health crisis. The Los Angeles trial is meant to serve as a bellwether, or test case, for the thousands of similar lawsuits consolidated in California state courts. Verdicts in bellwethers are often used by judges and attorneys to assess the potential value of remaining claims and guide settlement negotiations. Typically, multiple bellwethers will be tried before a broader settlement or resolution is reached. Beyond the California state court cases, more than 2,400 lawsuits against Meta and other social media companies that make similar claims have been centralized in the California federal court. The federal litigation also includes lawsuits brought by state attorneys general alleging harm to their states, as well as cases by school districts that say social media addiction has caused costly disruptions and problems. While there can be some coordination between state and federal courts overseeing similar claims, verdicts in state court do not typically have a direct impact on the federal litigation. Both the New Mexico and the California cases highlighted a central legal dispute that is likely to shape future cases: how much federal law shields social media companies from liability. Meta, Google and other social media companies have argued such lawsuits are barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which generally protects platforms from liability over user-generated content. Plaintiffs counter that their claims target the sites’ design features that cause harm rather than the content itself. The judges in Los Angeles and Santa Fe rejected that argument when they allowed the cases to go to trial. The verdicts could form the basis of appeals that would give higher courts a chance to weigh in on the key question of whether Section 230 applies to claims focused on platform design rather than content. In May, the judge in New Mexico will oversee a second phase of that trial where the state attorney general will ask for a court order directing Meta to make changes to its platforms and for additional monetary damages. Meta said it will appeal both verdicts. Google said it will appeal in the Los Angeles case. In addition to the Section 230 question, the companies could also base appeals on events surrounding the trial, including the judge’s decision-making on evidence, or jury or attorney conduct. Yes, in both state and federal courts. A trial is scheduled for June in federal court in a lawsuit brought by a school district in Breathitt County, Kentucky, against Meta, ByteDance, Snap and Google, according to court records. In California state court, another trial is slated to begin in July involving claims against Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat.
