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Tense meetings, protesters, and a surprise arrival: 7 photos show just how the first days of the G7 Summit played out

Leaders gathered in Biarritz, France for the G-7 Summit over the weekend to confront an array of global issues.

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  • The three-day summit was expected to be tense as trade policy, nuclear tension, and environmental concerns dominated headlines in the days leading up to the series of meetings.
  • Protesters, leaders' spouses, and a surprise arrival made headlines while key meetings continued into the week.
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World leaders gathered in Biarritz, France for the G-7 Summit over the weekend to confront an array of global issues.

The annual summit is taking place this year amid an escalating trade war between the US and China , Britain's planned exit from the European Union , and concern over fires that have devastated the Amazon rainforest in Brazil .

The first two days of the summit were filled with a flurry of reports on leaders' progress in confronting international affairs.

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See some of the highlights from the summit below:

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Johnson and Trudeau discussed Canada's existing trade deal with the EU and how that would function in the future once Britain officially divorces from Europe.

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It was the leaders' first sit-down meeting since Johnson assumed the role of Britain's Prime Minister in July.

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  • Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
  • President of the European Council Donald Tusk
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
  • President Donald Trump
  • French President Emmanuel Macron
  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Some carried portraits that they had illegally removed from town halls, held upside-down.

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The Trump administration has objected to Macron's apparent efforts to force talks between the US and Iran, which Trump has called the "number one terrorist nation."

Trump told reporters he had "no comment" on Zarif's arrival.

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Christian Hartmann/Pool via Reuters

Group photos are a tradition at the annual summit, and can sometimes illustrate the dynamics at play among the member leaders.

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SEE ALSO: Leaders at the G7 summit made power moves, traded barbs, and threatened tariffs in a 'difficult test of the unity and solidarity of the free world'

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