Russia’s President Putin accuses US of fanning tensions in Asia with Taiwan visit and AUKUS pact.

China has congratulated newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ending three-year freeze in diplomatic contact between the two countries.

Beijing says China’s building a military base in Solomon Islands is ‘fake news’ made up by Australia.

Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, talked through a video call, during which they promised to defend the security interests of both nations.

France says its $3.51-billion deal with Greece to supply the country with three warships is going ahead.

Iran's negotiating team, led by Ali Baqeri-Kani, has held bilateral and trilateral meetings in Vienna, ahead of a resumption in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement that would remove all sanctions imposed by the US on Tehran.

Beijing also called on the US and its allies to fulfill their non-proliferation obligations.

France denounces Australia's "very inelegant" move to leak a private text message from President Emmanuel Macron to his Australian counterpart about a submarine deal that Canberra later unilaterally dropped.

French President Emmanuel Macron reprimands Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for lying to him over a cancelled $90bn submarine deal.

US President Joe Biden has met French President Emmanuel Macron after France accused him of "stabbing it in the back."