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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne in Beijing, as the two countries mark 60 years of diplomatic relations and seek to strengthen ties. IMAGES
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, a first leader meeting between the two countries after years of soured relations. SOUNDBITE
Outside Hong Kong's high court after a judge orders a Hong Kong waiter to serve nine years in jail in the first conviction under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city to stamp out dissent. IMAGES
Images of Victoria park in central Hong Kong, which is empty for the first time in 32 years on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown IMAGES
The Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Matthieu Reeb, in Lausanne announces that Chinese swimmer Sun Yang "is sanctioned with an eight years suspension". SOUNDBITE
Rwanda jails the main leader of the opposition for treason and denying the genocide which scourged the country in the 1990s. Next, there are urgent calls for a reform of South Sudan's use of the death penalty as activists warn justice is not being served. Finally, China's manufacturers begin gravitating towards Africa as the low production costs become an irresistible draw.