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Speaking at the daily Downing Street press briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is 'absolutely confident' that the UK can 'turn the tide in the next 12 weeks' of the spread of coronavirus. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a press conference to discuss the government's coronavirus action plan together with the government's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance. IMAGES
Newly installed Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris visits Belfast for the first time since taking office, meeting Northern Irish political leaders at Stormont Castle. IMAGES
Ireland's parliament votes in favour of Simon Harris as the country's new prime minister, replacing Leo Varadkar after he abruptly quit last month citing personal and political reasons. Harris, 37, will become Ireland's youngest ever prime minister when he is formally installed in the role at a meeting with President Michael D. Higgins. IMAGES
Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, and his supporters march to 10 Downing Street in London to call for his release after a British High Court heard a last-ditch bid by the jailed WikiLeaks founder to appeal his extradition to the US to face espionage charges. Washington indicted Assange multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over WikiLeaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMAGES