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Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry hosts his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Cairo. Lavrov, seeking to reassure Egyptian leaders that their orders for Russian grain would be met, is on a tour of African countries dependent on imports for their food supply. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the two countries accounted for 85 percent of Egypt's wheat imports. IMAGES
The United States urges Moscow and Tehran to take the "decisions" needed to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, putting the ball squarely in their camp as last-minute Russian demands threatened to derail the process. "We remain confident that we can achieve mutual return to compliance in fairly short order" if decisions are "made in places like Tehran and Moscow," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters during a briefing after the European Union announced a pause in negotiations. SOUNDBITE
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono amid increasing tensions around the disputed Kuril islands. A decades-long row over the islands lingers as Moscow and Tokyo never signed a peace treaty after World War II due to the territorial dispute over the islands invaded by the Soviet Union in the final days of the war. IMAGES
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow during a visit aimed at keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal alive in the wake of US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out. IMAGES
Japan is scrambling fighter jets at a rate not seen since the height of the Cold War to ward off incursions from a newly assertive Russia and from China’s aggressive exertion of sovereignty in the East China Sea.
NATO forces cross the Vistula River at Korzeniewo in Poland as part of the US-led defence alliance's Exercise Dragon 24, involving around 4,500 soldiers and almost 1,000 vehicles. Dragon 24 is itself part of Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, NATO's largest military exercise since the Cold War, which is designed to test its defences in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine. IMAGES
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