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A virtual summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US leader Joe Biden begins, with Moscow's troop build-up on Ukraine's borders expected to dominate the talks. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden arrives for the G20 summit in India, where he hopes to seize on the no-shows by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin to boost Washington's influence. After disembarking from Air Force One, and smiling as he attended a short welcoming ceremony, Biden made his way to Narendra Modi's residence. IMAGES
President of the United States, Joe Biden, meets European leaders on a hectic day of diplomacy as Biden meets with Western leaders at emergency summits of NATO, the G7 group and the European Union in response to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
The White House applauds the adoption of the foreign aid legislation and urges the US lower House to approve the long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war efforts against Russia. "The president urges the House to send this legislation to his desk immediately so that he can sign it into law," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves a meeting at the World Economic Forum as he makes his first in-person appearance at the annual gathering of global elites in the Swiss alpine ski resort of Davos. Zelensky is on a diplomatic charm offensive in a bid to shore up support for his country's nearly two-year-old conflict with Russia, as the world's attention has swayed to the Middle East amid fears of a spillover from the conflict in Gaza. IMAGES
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