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The White House says US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken about Gaza in their first conversation for nearly a month amid reports of tensions between the leaders. "The two leaders also reviewed the situation in Gaza and the shift to targeted operations that will enable the flow of increasing amounts of humanitarian assistance while keeping the military pressure on Hamas and its leaders," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters in a press briefing. IMAGES
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says that President Biden "was not informed until this morning" that US Secretary of Defence Chief Lloyd Austin's hospitalization was due to prostate cancer. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in San Francisco next month for "constructive" talks, the White House says. "It's going to be in San Francisco, it is going to be a constructive meeting. The president is looking forward to it," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says of the long-awaited talks. SOUNDBITE
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters that US President Bidens's speech on the Omicron variant on Tuesday will not be about "locking the country down." SOUNDBITE
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).