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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mexico's Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena hold a press conference in Mexico City, following high-level security talks helds at the National Palace. IMAGES
Senior US officials led by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken hold a press conference alongside Mexican authorities in Mexico City during talks on tackling drug smuggling and migrant flows, amid signs of diplomatic frictions over a US plan to extend a controversial border wall. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden lands in Mexico City and receives a red-carpet welcome from his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Biden arrives in Mexico for talks on migration and drug smuggling, as well as a North American leaders' summit, after a politically charged stop at the border. IMAGES
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that him and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov "did not make progress" on the issue of a ceasefire, as the two begin talks in Turkey in the first such high-level contact since Moscow invaded its neighbour. SOUNDBITE
Venice (Italy), Jul 10 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The Government of Mexico is defending in the G20 summit, which concludes Saturday in Venice, that the so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can also be reallocated to middle-income countries, as requested by Argentina.FOOTAGE OF ARTURO HERRERA, MEXICAN TAX OFFICE SECRETARY.Translation:"Inflation worries me in general but this year I think it's mostly temporary effects. We need to monitor them and analyse them deeply so we can differentiate what effects are medium run and which temporary. Most of them, we think, are temporary, but some topics, like the global scarcity of microprocessors which is affecting the price of some goods, like cars or used cars, those are more long run. But we are trying to deeply analyse so we can differentiate between the light things from the important."
The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen says there has been better progress in recent talks on a post-Brexit trade deal "after difficult weeks with very, very slow progress". SOUNDBITE