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Wagner's aborted mutiny shows that Moscow's war in Ukraine is splintering Russian power, and instability in the nuclear-armed power is "not a good thing", the EU's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE
President Biden is not currently planning to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent a US debt default, the White House says, ruling out a constitutional solution to the current debt impasse. Invoking the 14th Amendment to the constitution, which some legal scholars argue would let the US Treasury ignore the debt limit, "is not going to fix the current problem we have right now," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. SOUNDBITE
President Joe Biden will still leave Wednesday for the G7 summit in Japan but is reevaluating the rest of his planned tour of Asia, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council John Kirby tells reporters, as the White House negotiates with Republican leaders to avoid a US debt default. Until now the president had planned to also visit Papua New Guinea and Australia after the G7 meeting in Hiroshima. SOUNDBITE
Republicans in the US House of Representatives pass a bill that will raise the national borrowing limit, but only in conjunction with drastic spending cuts, as they seek to avert a potentially ruinous looming credit default. IMAGES
Thousands protest in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, in demand of universal basic income, as the impoverished South American country struggles to repay its $44 billion debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amid rampant inflation and social unrest. IMAGES