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US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend a meeting at the Akasaka Palace State Guest House in Tokyo ahead of the Quad summit. IMAGES
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 Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledges that repairing ties with Paris will take time after he met with his French counterpart concerning a bitter row over a canceled mega-contract. "We recognize that this will take time and hard work," Blinken tells reporters at a New York hotel on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
France holds emergency talks with African countries on Wednesday evening on how to combat slave trading of migrants in Libya. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the Europe-Africa summit which opened Wednesday, will discuss proposals by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. IMAGES
African heads of state including Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, and Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, join other senior officials and dignitaries for a family photo on the first day of a two-day African summit on counter-terrorism, aimed at looking for African-led solutions to the continent's security challenges. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).