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"We’re working with G20 nations to agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom," says US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in remarks to the Chicago Council of Global Affairs think tank. SOUNDBITE
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
Soaring inflation in the eurozone meant the European Central Bank would soon have to bring an end to its long-standing policy of negative interest rates, the head of the German central bank says. SOUNDBITE of Bundesbank chief Joachim Nagel
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
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hails the first in-person G7 summit in nearly two years as a "huge opportunity" to kickstart recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
People wait outside the Arzobispo Loayza Hospital as Peru more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll, becoming the country with the highest Covid-19 mortality per capita anywhere in the world. IMAGES