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Added on the 29/02/2020 12:24:13 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Four Afghan women threatened by the Taliban and exiled in neighbouring Pakistan arrive at Roissy airport in Paris, several months after fleeing the Taliban regime that regained power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. IMAGES
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg sign a joint cooperation declaration as NATO and the EU seek to ramp up cooperation after Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended the European security order. IMAGES
Guests start to arrive at the Washington National Cathedral ahead of Madeleine Albright's funeral service in Washingon, DC. US President Joe Biden will address the funeral of the former Secretary of State at the service featuring hundreds from the Washington political and diplomatic elite. Albright, the first woman to head the State Department, and one of the major figures of late 20th century US diplomacy, died last month, aged 84. IMAGES
Lawyers for Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrive at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, as she is expected to be sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. IMAGES
About 70 Italian diplomats and Afghans reach Rome after being evacuated from Kabul following the fall of the capital to the Taliban. The KC-767 military transport plane touched down at Rome's Fiumicino international airport carrying some 50 diplomats and 20 Afghans who had worked with Italian forces in Afghanistan, the foreign ministry said. IMAGES