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World leaders met on Saturday to discuss preparation efforts to contain and alleviate the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months. Leaders from Germany, France, South Korea, and Argentina were scheduled to participate in the side event to the annual G20 gathering. According to Business Insider, the US has more than 11.9 million cases and 255,000 deaths from the highly contagious novel coronavirus. And despite making up the largest share of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world, noticeably absent was President Donald Trump. He went golfing, instead.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Athens for his three-day visit where he will meet Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis before heading to a BRICS summit in Brazil. Xi's visit comes on the heels of a four-day trip to Shanghai by new conservative PM Mitsotakis. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival for a welcome and family photo session at the G20 Summit in Osaka. IMAGES
President Donald Trump arrives in Japan's Osaka on the eve of a high-stakes G20 summit likely to be dominated by trade tensions between the United States and China. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump arrives for G20 summit meetings in Buenos Aires. IMAGES
President Xi Jinping of China arrived on Thursday in Hamburg for the G20 summit. IMAGES