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Britain's finance minister Rishi Sunak hails a "historic agreement" by G7 finance ministers meeting in London to commit to a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15 percent. SOUNDBITE
Ireland abandons its resistance to a higher tax rate for global multinationals and agrees to sign up to an international agreement to impose a 15 percent levy on the world's biggest companies. SOUNDBITE
Ministers from G7 top economies on Thursday reached consensus on steps towards an accord on taxing digital giants, an issue that has divided the United States and its allies Britain and France. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who hosted the two-day meeting in Chantilly outside Paris, hailed the consensus as 'a major step forward'. SOUNDBITE
Senior ministers and officials from the G7 and 'Five Eyes' nations are greeted at the Global Fraud Summit in London by the UK's Home Secretary James Cleverly. IMAGES
G7 countries' finance ministers and central bank governors pose for a group photo as part of the three-day talks in the coastal city of Niigata, Japan. IMAGES
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