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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrives for meetings with defence chiefs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. IMAGES
The United States describes Russian President Vladimir Putin as desperate over the Ukraine conflict in meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Having to travel across the length of his own country to meet with an international pariah to ask for assistance in a war that he expected to win in the opening month, I would characterize it as him begging for assistance," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Anti-Macky Sall demonstrators are pushed back by police officers on the outskirts of the Place de la Bourse in Paris, where an international summit for a "new global finance pact" is being held, in which the Senegalese President is taking part. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrive at a press conference during the AUKUS summit at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California. IMAGES
Images show Virginia and Los Angeles-class submarines at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, ahead of AUKUS summit with US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia will buy as many as five US nuclear-powered submarines and later build a new model with US and British technology under an ambitious plan to build Western muscle across the Asia-Pacific in the face of a rising China. IMAGES