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"We are now at the closest we ever have been at reaching an agreement. We are very optimistic, we are very hopeful. But we are also very keen for this mediation to succeed in reaching a humanitarian truce" says Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari during a press conference in Doha. IMAGES
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the Palazzo Chigi in Rome, with the Brazilian leader due to visit France next. The veteran leftist has been in diplomatic hyperdrive since taking office, making Brazil a key global player again -- but stoking controversy with some of his stances, including on Ukraine and Venezuela. IMAGES
Republican US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Monday crisis talks with Democratic President Joe Biden to avert a looming debt default have been "productive" -- but reveals no deal has been struck. "I felt we had a productive discussion. We don't have an agreement yet, but I did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion," the top lawmaker tells reporters as he emerges from the White House. SOUNDBITE
France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire, praised the agreement reached between social partners on the sharing of value in companies, described as "historic" for all employees of Small and medium-size enterpresises (SMEs), at the conclusion of a Renaissance Convention in Paris on this theme. SOUNDBITE
A bus carrying migrants rescued off the coast of Libya arrives at a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon in southern France. IMAGES
Buses under police escort enter and leave the city of Toulon, in southern France, as 230 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya are transferred by bus to a vacation centre on the Giens peninsula in Hyères, a town about 20 kilometers east of Toulon. IMAGES
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