Brazil's president says he won't accept G-7 aide for wildfires unless French leader apologises
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro today said Brazil will only accept an offer of international aid to fight Amazon fires if French leader Emmanuel Macron retracts comments that he finds offensive.
Bolsonaro said Macron had called him a liar and he accused the French president of questioning Brazil's sovereignty amid tensions over fires sweeping the Amazon region.
Macron has to retract some of his comments "and then we can speak," Bolsonaro said.
He spoke a day after the Group of Seven nations pledged NZ$31.4 million to help fight the flames in the Amazon and protect the rainforest, in addition to a separate NZ$18.8 million from Britain and NZ$17 million from Canada.
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