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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi meet on the final day of the G7 summit in Germany. IMAGES ahead of their meeting
G7 leaders arrive in Brussels for an extraordinary summit on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Discussion of new sanctions against Russia by Western powers is expected to dominate the meeting. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden will meet with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Rome on Friday, ahead of the G20 summit, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tells reporters. The meeting is billed as a chance to settle a dispute that erupted after Australia scrapped a deal to buy French conventional submarines in favor of a new plan to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines. SOUNDBITE
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2020. The President and Vice-President elect were chosen for the honor over finalists that included President Donald Trump. Also on the list were frontline health workers with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said that Biden and Harris received for the honor "for changing the American story." "Forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace at the end of a day-long visit to the French capital. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva review Brazilian Navy troops as they arrive for the launch ceremony of the third in a series of four French-designed conventionally powered submarines. IMAGES