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China's top diplomat Wang Yi, who has just taken over as Beijing's foreign affairs minister following the announcement that his predecessor Qin Gang had been sacked, meets with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara ahead of an expected meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After a month without being seen in public, Qin was removed from office by Beijing's top lawmaking body on Tuesday after just 207 days in the job, following weeks of speculation that the former ambassador to the United States and confidant of President Xi Jinping had fallen out of favour. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu ahead of the summit in Istanbul which will see leaders from Russia, Turkey, Germany and France discuss the situation in Syria. IMAGES of the encounter
Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Tel-Aviv. While the United States has strongly backed Israel's response to Hamas's attacks, it has pressed its ally to do more to minimise civilian casualties. IMAGES
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Ankara. Wang's visit has been met with protests by members of the country's 50,000-strong Uyghur community. IMAGES
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev meets Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu in Baku. Cavusoglu re-asserted Ankara's support for Azerbaijan and said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had told him it was "unacceptable" to leave Azerbaijan without assistance. IMAGES
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).
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