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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially opens the G20 meeting, which will be dominated by contentious discussions on trade, geopolitical tensions, and climate change. IMAGES
Canadan Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Osaka, Japan ahead of the G20 summit on Friday and Saturday. IMAGES
Electoral officials seal ballot boxes at a polling station in Mathura as the second phase of India's marathon six-week-long general election comes to a close. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term in the vote, which ends in early June. But turnout in the first round last week dropped nearly four points to 66 percent from the previous election in 2019. IMAGES
UN climate chief Simon Stiell warns that global warming will "decimate G20 economies" without unity. "Sidelining climate isn’t a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," he says during his address at the UK think tank Chatham House, London, UK. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at the G20 summit venue in Rio de Janeiro, where his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, will also be present. IMAGES