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Britain will gradually boost its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces during a visit to Poland. "Over the next six years, we'll invest an additional 75 billion pounds in our defence," Sunak says alongside Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief. SOUNDBITE
By 94 votes in favour and 49 against, Senegalese MPs pass an amnesty law covering acts linked to deadly protests in the last three years, a controversial text aimed at calming the crisis sparked by the presidential election delay. IMAGES
Cheering and joy as several government opponents are released from the Reubeuss prison in Senegal, amid a political crisis that has gripped the country since the presidential election was delayed. IMAGES
General Laura Richardson, commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), arrives at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador. A US government delegation, led by Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas to Joe Biden's administration, Christopher Dodd, is beginning a three-day visit to discuss plans for security cooperation between the two countries. IMAGES
Smoke rises above the southern Lebanese border village of Khiam following Israeli bombardment after Hezbollah fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the barrage as a response to the killing of Hamas's deputy leader in Beirut. IMAGES
Plumes of smoke billow over Israel-Lebanon border, as fears of Israel's war in Gaza could spiral across the Middle East grow. Amid the almost three-month-old war, Israel has traded almost daily cross-border fire with Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, while so far avoiding a full-scale war. IMAGES
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