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Joe Biden is welcomed by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the garden of Number 10 Downing Street as part of a short visit by the US President to the United Kingdom on his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania. Biden says he "couldn't be meeting with a closer friend and a greater ally". Biden will also meet with King Charles III in Windsor. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet ahead of a bilateral meeting in Granada, Spain, at the European Political Community (EPC) -- an informal group which includes all 27 European Union countries and many NATO member states, along with their European neighbours, excluding Russia. IMAGES
President Joe Biden plans to speak soon to incoming British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the White House says. "President Biden looks forward to speaking with... Sunak in the upcoming days and to our continued close cooperation with the United Kingdom," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters during a briefing. SOUNDBITE
Leaders from the Party of European Socialists, including head of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and President of PES Sergei Stanishev, gathered in Paris' Bourse Palace, Thursday, for talks on how to move forward after the UK's vote to leave the EU.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker met with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in Brussels on Wednesday, as the European Council emergency meeting on the 'Brexit' issue takes place in the Belgian capital. Relations between Scotland and the EU, the 'Brexit' result, as well as the possibility of a second referendum on Scotland’s independence from the UK were expected to top the agenda of the meeting.
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).