Washington | US President Joe Biden and Germany’s new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, struggled to show a united front over whether the critical Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be blocked if Russia invades Ukraine, after their first meeting at the White House on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).
In a flurry of diplomacy across two continents, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron met for more than five hours in Moscow as Mr Biden and Mr Scholz spoke at the White House in efforts to defuse the crisis.
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