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French President Emmanuel Macron calls for Paris and Beijing to unite against the war in Ukraine as he begins a meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. SOUNDBITE
The Red Cross demands a halt to all military operations around a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, warning the consequences of a strike could be "catastrophic". "It is high time to stop playing with fire and instead take concrete measures to protect this facility and others like it from any military operations," Robert Mardini, director general of the ICRC, tells reporters in Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron urges the international community that "there can be no weakness, no spirit of compromise" facing Russia in a video address to participants in the Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv. "It's a matter of our freedom, for everyone, and of peace everywhere around the world," Macron added. SOUNDBITE
During a press conference in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a probe into "possible war crimes" in Ukraine and urges Russia and Ukraine to work with UN on humanitarian corridors. SOUNDBITE
The UN General Assembly adopts a new non-binding resolution that demands an "immediate" halt to Russia's war in Ukraine. In a vote at UN headquarters in New York, 140 countries voted in favor, 38 abstained and five voted against the measure. IMAGES
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell decries Russia's attack on the Ukrainian port city Mariupol as "a massive war crime", as the bloc discusses imposing more sanctions on Moscow. SOUNDBITE