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Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci arrive for United Nations-backed talks at the Alpine Crans-Montana ski resort. IMAGES
EU top diplomat Josep Borrell says foreign ministers meeting with the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will send a "message of support" to the Kremlin's opponents following Navalny's death in jail. SOUNDBITE
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrive at the OIC/Arab League meeting in Riyadh. The summit meeting is expected to underscore demands that fighting in Gaza end before the Israel-Hamas war draws in other countries. IMAGES
Ahead of an informal dinner in Athens hosted by Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis marking the twentieth anniversary of a 2003 Thessaloniki summit confirming the European perspective of Western Balkan states, leaders from the European Union and the Balkans pose for a group photo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a guest. The Ukrainian leader is concluding a European tour with previous stops in Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark. IMAGES
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says he has convened a meeting between the leaders of Turkey and Sweden on the eve of a summit next week to push Stockholm's stalled membership bid. "On Monday, in Vilnius, I will convene a meeting with President Erdogan and Prime Minister Kristersson, as the next step in this process," Stoltenberg says after talks at NATO headquarters with foreign ministers from the two countries. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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