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European Commission President nominee Ursula von der Leyen pledges to propose a "green deal" for Europe in her first 100 days in office, which would see a carbon-neutral continent by 2050. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pose for a group photo in Berlin with others European leaders as the international conference on reconstruction of Ukraine starts in the German capital. IMAGES
"Earlier today, I sent a letter to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposing that we meet next week in Europe following on our talks in recent weeks to discuss the steps that we can take to resolve this crisis without conflict," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says while speaking at a UN Security Council meeting. SOUNDBITE
The US Senate votes to stave off a credit default that would have sparked a recession and roiled world markets as Democrats and Republicans agreed to a stop-gap fix to raise the nation's debt limit. SOUNDBITE
"Our expectation is in the second half of the year we would see the European economies on a sound recovery path," Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says in remarks ahead of the spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says a new post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union would benefit both sides of the Channel, after a last-gasp agreement was secured. "This is a good deal for the whole of Europe and for our friends and partners as well," he told a Downing Street news conference. SOUNDBITE
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