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During a joint presser with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, US President Joe Biden says that Ukraine deal shows Putin 'we're not backing down'. IMAGES
During the G7 summit in Italy, US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sign a landmark US-Ukraine security deal. IMAGES
"There's still a lot of work to be done. But we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and indeed essential, and we will continue to work relentlessly to achieve it," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells reporters in Doha after being informed of the reply by Qatar. SOUNDBITE
The European Union's climate chief expresses disappointment over a proposed deal at the COP28 summit in Dubai that fell short of calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels. "There are a couple of good things in there, but overall it is clearly insufficient and not adequate to addressing the problem we are here to address," EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra tells reporters. The United States, European Union and low-lying island nations have pressed for the final deal to include language on winding down the use of fossil fuels. SOUNDBITE
Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio signs a gas deal with Congolese oil minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua as Rome seeks to end its dependence on Russia for energy. IMAGES