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US Vice President Kamala Harris tells the UN's COP28 conference that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a global climate fund -- its first pledge since 2014. 'Today, we are demonstrating through action how the world can and must meet this (climate) crisis,' Harris told world leaders at the summit in Dubai. SOUNDBITE
Polish President Andrzej Duda and foreign ministers arrive at the first Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial council since the start of the war in Ukraine, held in Lodz, Poland. IMAGES
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Poland will only receive the money from its 35.4-billion euro ($38 billion) post-Covid economic recovery package if it carries out rule of law reforms. She says the EU's approval of the plan announced on Wednesday is "important" but only "a first step, as the money will be disbursed when the reforms and investments are in place". SOUNDBITE
President of the European Council, Charles Michel, says that Ukraine will need a 'European Marshall plan' to help prepare and rebuild the country from Russia's invasion. Michel said that decisions to help Ukraine must be 'concrete' and 'operational' on the sidelines of a donor conference initiated by the EU, Poland and Sweden and hosted in Warsaw. SOUNDBITE
During her visit to Warsaw, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announces that Britain has frozen $350 billion of "Putin's war chest". SOUNDBITE
New Delhi residents receive a Covid-19 vaccine dose in a vaccination centre as India administered its billionth jab on Thursday, half a year after a devastating surge in cases brought the health system close to collapse. IMAGES