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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Hiroshima, Japan ahead of the G7 Summit, during which leaders will discuss tightening the screws on Russia's ailing economy as well as how to respond to China's growing military and economic power. There will be a chance for G7 leaders to make their case directly to Modi, whose country has close military ties with Russia and has so far declined to condemn Moscow's invasion. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with guests at a Big Lunch event organised outside of Downing Street in honor of King Charles III's coronation. IMAGES
UK leader Rishi Sunak arrives in Warsaw for talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that will focus on Ukraine and wider European security. While in Poland's capital, the British prime minister will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, according to his Downing Street office. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo for talks at Downing Street, with law enforcement, migration and energy cooperaton among matters on the table. The talks come as Britain and the US launched a second round of joint military strikes on Yemen's Huthis on Red Sea shipping, the Israel-Gaza conflict and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE