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President Obama visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, to thank troops and their families for their service ahead of the holidays. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomes presidents and representatives of delegations participating in the 77+China Summit taking place in the capital, Havana. IMAGES
Men are seen sitting on the wall of the former US embassy and locals wave flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -- the name given to the country by its new rulers -- across the capital to celebrate the second anniversary of the Taliban government's takeover of the country. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives Li Qiang for a bilateral meeting at the Elysee Palace, on the sidelines of the international Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, organised in Paris. China's premier was received earlier in the day by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at Matignon. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne welcomes Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Les Invalides in Paris, on the sidelines of an international summit for "a new global finance pact". IMAGES