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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges allies to deliver "more weapons to drive Russian forces off our land", in a meeting of Kyiv's backers at the US Ramstein air base in Germany. SOUNDBITE
"What good does this mandate do when it failed so miserably to meet any of its objectives?", new Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon tells the press before the UN Security Council votes to extend the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for a further year. He argues that the rocket attack that killed 12 teenage children in the Israeli annexed part of the Syrian Golan Heights at the end of July was "a direct result of the failure of UNIFIL and the Lebanese government" to implement the Council's resolutions. SOUNDBITE
Venezuela's security forces used tear gas on protesters challenging the reelection victory claimed by President Nicolas Maduro but disputed by the opposition and questioned internationally. IMAGES
France's Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu welcomes US Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin at the Hôtel de Brienne in Paris. IMAGES
Lebanese forces secure the area around the US embassy following a shooting attack in Beirut's northern suburb of Awkar. A Syrian man was arrested after the shooting near the US embassy, the Lebanese army said, with the diplomatic mission saying its personnel were safe. IMAGES
Images of French gendarmes and members of civil defense boarding an air force plane bound for New Caledonia after France imposed a state of emergency, following three nights of clashes in its Pacific territory that have left five dead and hundreds wounded. Largely indigenous protests against a French plan to impose new voting rules on the archipelago have spiraled into the deadliest violence since the 1980s. IMAGES