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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesman calls for all sides to "refrain from acts that could escalate tensions in the region" amid China's military drills around Taiwan. "On China, I can tell you that we're of course following the developments in the Taiwan Straits closely. We urge the relevant parties to refrain from acts that could escalate tensions in the region," Stephane Dujarric tells a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York. SOUNDBITE
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi calls on Iran to adopt "concrete" measures to help bolster cooperation on the country's nuclear programme. Grossi was speaking at a news conference in the Iranian city of Isfahan. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for "silencing the guns" in Gaza "to honor the spirit of Ramadan", which started on the weekend. SOUNDBITE
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen recommends the bloc drop a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. SOUNDBITE
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin calls on the Iran-backed movement Hezbollah to avoid provoking a wider conflict amid near-daily skirmishes along the Israel-Lebanon border since Israel's war with Hamas. SOUNDBITE
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