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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in the capital city of Dushanbe to hold talks with Tajikistan's leader Emomali Rakhmon. IMAGES
With three days to go before the first round of the legislative elections, French president Emmanuel Macron visits the Gaillac gendarmerie brigade in the Tarn, where he will discuss local "safety" concerns. IMAGES
Russian president Vladimir Putin holds a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, as Macron visits the Russian capital amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
At the Elysée Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron talks to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by videoconference. They discuss the military parade celebrating the 1945 victory which has just taken place in Moscow, the "strategic dialogue" engaged between their two countries, as well as current crises, such as Libya or Syria. IMAGES
Russian president Vladimir Putin arrives to meet with other leaders from France, Germany and Turkey for a summit to try to find a lasting political solution to the Syrian civil war and salvage a fragile ceasefire in a rebel-held northern province. IMAGES of Putin's arrival in Istanbul