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Olympic chiefs announce that Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in this summer's Paris Games under a neutral flag will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony. SOUNDBITE
Polish minister of defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and Parliament speaker Szymon Holownia attend a ceremony in Warsaw celebrating 25 years since Poland's accession to NATO. A day earlier, President Andrzej Duda urged NATO members to increase their defence spending to three percent of GDP in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. IMAGES
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev receives his counterpart and close ally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during an official welcoming ceremony. IMAGES
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attends an honour guard ceremony in Seoul ahead of his meeting with his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-sup and President Yoon Suk-yeol. The United States and South Korea will hold discussion-based exercises on addressing nuclear threats, Austin said Tuesday. IMAGES
Mourners attend a farewell ceremony for Daria Dugina, daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, after she was killed in a car bombing on August 21. Russia's FSB security services blame Ukraine for the attack, which is thought to have been targeted at Dugin, an outspoken ultranationalist intellectual and a vocal supporter of the Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine. A Ukrainian presidential adviser has denied that the Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing. IMAGES