Defence ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) have started their meeting with host country Italy warning that the global security framework is growing increasingly precarious due to competing visions of the world, Reuters reports.

The G7 gathering marks the group’s first ministerial meeting dedicated to defence and comes days after Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Warning that near-term forecasts for global security “cannot be positive”, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said tensions were fuelled by a confrontation between “two different, perhaps incompatible visions of the world”.

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