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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's Ebrahim Raisi attend the CICA summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, a cooperation forum of 27 Asian countries. An opportunity for Russia to strengthen its alliances in the context of the war in Ukraine. IMAGES
During a press conference in Madrid, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declares that NATO leaders are to invite Sweden, Finland to become members on Wednesday. SOUNDBITE
President Sauli Niniisto of Finland and Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden meet with their Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid in a bid to get Erdogan to drop objections to them joining the US-led defence alliance. Erdogan has refused to greenlight the applications from the Nordic pair despite calls from his NATO allies to clear the path for them to enter. IMAGES
Leaders from West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS stage a summit over Mali's political crisis, three months after slapping tough sanctions on the Sahel nation. IMAGES
World leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose with their peers at the opening of the annual NATO summit held in Watford, United Kingdom, among tensions between the members on the strategical and financial future of the alliance. IMAGES of the family photo
The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany meet in Istanbul to try to find a lasting political solution to the Syrian civil war and salvage a fragile ceasefire in a rebel-held northern province. IMAGES of outside the venue