First step

The U.S. manufacturing sector slowed again in June as demand weakened against a backdrop of high prices and continued constraints on production, the Institute for Supply Management said on Friday.

But efforts to rally the Global South to the Ukrainian cause were less successful, with five developing countries invited to partner with the rich country club signing up only to a mildly worded statement hailing democracy's "courageous defenders" without referring explicitly to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.