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Added on the 04/02/2023 15:00:48 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as they met at Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, during his visit to the kingdom that will yield billions of dollars in deals. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet in Geneva in an urgent bid for a solution over Ukraine, with the United States increasingly worried that Russia will invade despite warnings of severe reprisals. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrived in mainly Buddhist Myanmar on a highly sensitive visit to a country facing sharp global criticism for the alleged ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya Muslim minority. IMAGES
The United States says it's concerned by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss Ukraine. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the trip "certainly doesn't seem to be productive in terms of trying to get things done in Ukraine," adding: "It's concerning." SOUNDBITE
French far-right National Rally (RN) party leader Jordan Bardella votes in the first round of high-stakes snap parliamentary elections. The vote could put the far-right in power in France for the first time since the Nazi occupation in World War II. IMAGES
Antony Blinken has been spotted taking a break from his busy touring schedule on his visit to Kyiv by jamming along to the Neil Young classic "Rockin' in the Free World" in a bar in the Ukrainian capital, with the audience clapping the US Secretary of State's guitar chops at the song's end. IMAGES