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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak demands that unionists end their boycott of the devolved government in Northern Ireland, in a speech marking 25 years of peace in the divided territory. "I urge you to work with us to get Stormont up and running again. That's the right thing to do in its own terms. And I'm convinced it's also the right thing to do for our union (UK)," Sunak says in Belfast. SOUNDBITE
Britain's finance minister says the government will help cover the wages of people hit by the coronavirus outbreak by allowing companies to apply for a grant for up to 80 percent of salaries of retained workers, up to a total of £2,500 ($2,900) a month. SOUNDBITE
Healthcare workers administer polio vaccine drops to Gazan children in Deir el-Balah, as a polio vaccination campaign officially began in the Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale innoculation. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for bilateral talks at the Elysée Palace. IMAGES
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges NATO partners to soon start spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence, during a speech in London calling for a more muscular approach to Western foreign policy. SOUNDBITE
Soldiers of the British Coldstream Guard, wearing their traditional "bearskin" tall fur cap, take part in the changing of the Republican Guard on the steps of the presidential palace in Paris, to celebrate 120 years of Entende Cordiale agreements between France and the UK. IMAGES