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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 Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo prefecture Japan to attend the funeral of assassinated premier Shinzo Abe and reinforce US diplomatic links in the region. Harris will head a delegation including the US ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai at the funeral on Tuesday. IMAGES
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.
US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 in Osaka, Japan. IMAGES
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the G20 venue and shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).