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The new French Prime Minister heads to the presidential palace for a working meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, after receiving former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal for the Macronist group and conservative leaders, Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau and the President of the Senate, Gerard Larcher. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says he's working with Congress to name Kenya as the first major non-NATO US ally in sub-Saharan Africa during a joint press conference at the White House with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto. SOUNDBITE
Kyrgyzstan appears to have blocked TikTok after the Central Asian country's security services called to restrict the social media app to "protect children". Kyrgyzstan's digital ministry on April 16 said it had "informed telecommunications operators of the need to limit access to TikTok, based on a decision by the security services". IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK and Rwanda are eyeing a new deal on asylum seekers, after Britain's highest court ruled that removing migrants to the African country was unlawful. "If it becomes clear that our domestic legal frameworks or international conventions are still frustrating plans at that point, I am prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships," he tells lawmakers during the weekly prime minister's questions in parliament. SOUNDBITE
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives with his wife Olena Zelenska to a working dinner at a NATO summit in Vilnius, where they are welcomed by Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda and his spouse Diana Nausediene. Zelensky's visit to Vilnius comes as part of a diplomatic push for a concrete timetable for Ukraine to join the US-led defence alliance, but the summit's failure to go much beyond a 2008 vow on future membership so far appears a bitter blow. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes heads of state, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Council President Charles Michel for a working dinner at the Elysée Palace, on the sidelines of an international summit for "a new global financial pact". IMAGES