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Wagner's aborted mutiny shows that Moscow's war in Ukraine is splintering Russian power, and instability in the nuclear-armed power is "not a good thing", the EU's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE
Images shared by the Russian Defence Ministry show armoured personnel carriers being loaded onto a military plane destined for Kazakhstan. A Moscow-led military alliance dispatches troops to help quell mounting unrest in Kazakhstan as police said dozens were killed trying to storm government buildings. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges allies to deliver "more weapons to drive Russian forces off our land", in a meeting of Kyiv's backers at the US Ramstein air base in Germany. SOUNDBITE
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he will pay a working visit after a stop in North Korea, where he signed a mutual defence pact with leader Kim Jong Un. Putin's trip to Vietnam is set to deepend ties between Moscow and Hanoi, according to Russian news agencies. IMAGES
Three decades later, the appeal trial of the non-ministerial financial part of the 'Karachi scandal' opens: six men are suspected of having played a role in a system of kickbacks on arms contracts that boosted the presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in 1995. IMAGES
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that alliance members must guarantee long-term weapon deliveries for Ukraine, as ministers prepared to discuss a proposal for a 100-billion-euro, five-year fund. Speaking in Brussels, where NATO foreign ministers are meeting to forge a support package by a July summit in Washington, Stoltenberg says "we must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul." "We must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul so that we rely less on the voluntary contributions and more on NATO commitments, less on short-term offers and more on multi-year pledges," Stoltenberg says as NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels. SOUNDBITE