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Added on the 27/01/2023 08:26:47 - Copyright : Euronews EN
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.
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, alongside host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, watch a military honours ceremony ahead of talks on further European military backing for Ukraine. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a working dinner and to discuss "the urgent military and humanitarian needs of Ukraine", according to the French Presidency. The two heads of state exchanged a handshake, a brief embrace and a few words in the courtyard of the presidential palace, to the sound of the Republican Guard, before entering the building. IMAGES
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann qualifies Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy supplies as "war crimes," after a meeting between G7 justice ministers concerning war crimes in Ukraine. "People are left in their homes, in a winter that could possibly reach -30 degrees; then this is a terrible war crime. Winter is used as a weapon," he states. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron talks with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau during the G7 summit at Elmau Castle in Bavaria, Germany. IMAGES