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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with shopkeepers as he visits the market in Royan, a seaside town on France's Atlantic coast, before meeting local representatives of farmers, who are still unhappy despite the assurances he has given them. IMAGES
Nayef al-Sudairi, the Saudi envoy to Jordan, and recently named ambassador for the Palestinian territories and consul general for Jerusalem, meets with Palestinian top diplomat Riyad al-Maliki on a rare visit to the occupied West Bank. The delegation was Saudi Arabia's first in three decades to the West Bank, which Israel has occupied along with other territories since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Sochi ahead of trilateral talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev a month after the worst clashes between the two countries since their war in 2020. Moscow is seeking to reassert its role as a key powerbroker between the Caucasus arch-foes amid the growing Western engagement in the region, where Russia -- distracted by its war in Ukraine -- is visibly losing influence after decades of domination. IMAGES
An Egyptian delegation arrives in the Gaza Strip through the Erez border crossing with Israel for talks with Hamas. General Abbas Kamel, Egypt's intelligence chief, is expected to meet with leaders of Hamas in Gaza City, including Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' political chief in Gaza. IMAGES
Mahmoud Dirir, the special envoy of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, talks to the media in the Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum after the premier’s talks with members of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and protesters in a bid to mediate the country’s crisis. SOUNDBITE