U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are expected to agree today on a cooperation pact centered on technology, trade, and travel (CNBC) during a meeting in Cornwall ahead of tomorrow’s Group of Seven (G7) summit.
 
Echoing a 1941 pact between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the charter is expected to mention the countries’ common goals on climate change and pandemic recovery. Biden is also expected to press Johnson to follow through (CNN) on a portion of the Brexit agreement that preserves Northern Ireland’s U.S.-negotiated Good Friday peace accord. Today’s talks kick off a series of European meetings in which Biden aims to reassert the U.S. role in global cooperation, including with a new pledge to buy five hundred million doses (WaPo) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for worldwide distribution. 

China’s top legislature passed a wide-ranging law to counter foreign sanctions (Reuters), according to state media. Local experts said the law aims to make retaliatory measures more legitimate and predictable, though its details have not been published.
 
China: The chief executive of Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac suggested to Brazilian diplomats that anti-China comments by top Brazilian officials could be related to delayed shipments of COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Brazil, sources told Reuters.
 
In Foreign Affairs, CFR’s Yanzhong Huang looks at China’s vaccine diplomacy.

Attackers killed at least ten people (NYT) at a site where staffers were clearing land mines in Afghanistan’s northeastern Baghlan Province. The attackers reportedly sought out Hazaras, a largely Shiite minority. The self-proclaimed Islamic State claimed responsibility.
 
Mongolia: Former Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh won Mongolia’s presidential election (Reuters) in a landslide after he was forced to resign as prime minister amid protests earlier this year. His Mongolian People’s Party now controls both the presidency and the parliament, which are usually held by opposing parties, though Khurelsukh is supposed to relinquish his party affiliation.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the Makhmour refugee camp in northern Iraq must be cleared of people he called Kurdish militants (Reuters). He said Turkey will clear the militants alone if the Iraqi government does not. Turkish air strikes killed three people at the camp over the weekend.
 
Morocco: The country legalized the production of cannabis (BBC) for medical and industrial uses.

The Mastercard Foundation announced it will devote the funds to vaccinate fifty million people (PBS NewsHour) over the next three years. Fewer than 2 percent of people in Africa have received a single dose of coronavirus vaccine.
 
Uganda: Up to one-third of adults in Uganda have been excluded (Guardian) from health-care and social services and cannot vote because they do not have digital identity cards introduced in 2015, according to a report by three human rights organizations.

Members of the European Parliament passed a resolution backing a proposal (Politico) at the World Trade Organization for an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines, pressuring the European Commission to change its stance on the issue.
 
This In Brief explains the debate over a patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines.
 
Russia: A Moscow court classified two organizations (CNN) connected to jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny as “extremist,” forcing them to close and barring members from running for office.

Left-wing former schoolteacher Pedro Castillo won the official count in Peru’s presidential election with 50.2 percent of votes. His opponent Keiko Fujimori, who received 49.8 percent of votes, called for two hundred thousand votes to be declared null (FT). International observers said the voting process was clean (Reuters).
 
This In Brief looks at whether Peru’s polarized election will bring more instability.
 
Nicaragua: The United States imposed sanctions (WaPo) on four top officials in President Daniel Ortega’s government in response to a string of arrests of opposition leaders.