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New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sits down with Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont in Belfast. Starmer is completing a whistlestop tour of the UK, just after his centre-left Labour party won last week's general election. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is greeted by Northern Ireland's newly appointed First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly on arrival at Stormont Castle, after the restoration of power-sharing in Belfast on February 3. A pro-Irish unity politician, Sinn Fein's O'Neill made history by becoming the UK territory's first nationalist leader, and has predicted that the UK territory will hold a vote on unification with Ireland within the next decade. IMAGES
The South African president and chairperson of this year's BRICS summit, Cyril Ramaphosa, announces that the five current member states have reached a "consensus on the first phase of this expansion process" and have invited six states to become new members of the BRICS group from January 1, 2024. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attend a roundtable discussion at the Elysee Palace with business leaders from both countries during a summit between Paris and London. (COMPLETES VIDI33AW8N9_EN and VIDI33AW9B7_EN) IMAGES
British Prime Minister Liz Truss insists she would push ahead with her contentious programme to boost sluggish economic growth, despite market turbulence and sacking her finance minister. Truss says she is "absolutely determined to see through what I have promised to deliver, a higher growth, more prosperous United Kingdom", even after being forced to climb down on key parts of the plan. SOUNDBITE
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