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The high-powered ministerial delegation to Paris is rewarded with an agreement on supplying arms to Ukraine, while voice divisions were on show again on Q+A. Follow the latest updates live
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer with the best breaking stories overnight before Natasha May picks up the baton shortly.
The big breaking news overnight is that Richard Marles and Penny Wong have announced a joint deal to supply Ukraine with artillery shells as part of a reboot of relations with France. The “2+2” talks – so-called because they included the Australian pair’s defence and foreign affairs counterparts – took place in the splendour of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris overnight and prompted Marles to call it a “new cooperation between the countries’ defence industries”. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will doubtless approve after he again called for more western help.
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