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European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a press conference in Capri, Italy, ahead of the Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting in which he says that the Western countries "have to take quicker decisions in order to support Ukraine more because we cannot afford Putin's victory in Ukraine." SOUNDBITE
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a visit to Germany, says he sees all faiths as equal and rejects suggestions that his attacks on Israel have anti-Semitic undertones. "If there was a struggle against anti-Semitism, I was the first leader in the world to lead that struggle," Erdogan says during a joint media appearance with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. SOUNDBITE
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses support for Azerbaijan's military operation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. "We support the steps taken by Azerbaijan, with whom we act together with the motto of 'one nation, two states', to defend its territorial integrity," Erdogan says. SOUNDBITE
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says the West is staging "provocations" against Russia. Erdogan has maintained good working relations with Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, while trying to stay neutral in the conflict. Turkey has not joined the programme of Western sanctions against Russia and signed an economic agreement with Moscow earlier this month, but has also been supplying Ukraine with weapons and combat drones. SOUNDBITE
Turkey signs a memorandum with Finland and Sweden supporting the invitation for the two Nordic countries to become members of NATO. IMAGES
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).