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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Berlin for four-way talks with counterparts from France and Germany as well as Britain's junior foreign minister to set up a common strategy against Moscow, a day before his crunch talks with Russia's Sergei Lavrov. IMAGES
European leaders arrive for an Extraordinary European Summit on aid to Ukraine in Brussels, with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen among the arrivals. IMAGES
NATO members have agreed that their established goal of spending two percent of their national output on defence will become a minimum level, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg tells reporters. "Eleven allies now reach or exceed the two percent benchmark," he says at the end of the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius. "And we expect this number will rise substantially next year. Today, allies made an enduring commitment to invest at least two percent of gross domestic product annually in defence." SOUNDBITE
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during a European summit in Moldova. IMAGES
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is the first of up to 47 leaders to arrive at the European Political Community summit on in Moldova. Zelensky is welcomed to Mimi Castle in Bulboaca by Moldova's President Maia Sandu for a meeting designed as a show of European diplomatic force against Russia. 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).