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Lviv, Ukraine
People attend the consecration of the willow branches at a church on Palm Sunday
Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters
 
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LENIN'S BIRTHDAY: A woman holds a portrait of Vladimir Lenin on his birthday as she walks to visit his mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Photograph: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA
 
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Asia Group Chairman and CEO Kurt M Campbell

SYDNEY/WASHINGTON :
A senior-level U.S. delegation met the Solomon Islands' leader on Friday and warned that Washington would have "significant concerns and respond accordingly" to any steps to establish a permanent Chinese military presence in the Pacific island nation.

A White House statement said Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare reiterated to the visiting delegation led by White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell that there would be no military base, no long-term presence, and no power projection capability under a security deal signed with China.
 
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A female Ukrainian soldier crosses herself during an Orthodox Easter service in St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv on April 24, 2022
 
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Orthodox Christians gather with lit candles around the Edicule, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ during the Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulcher church 23 April, 2022
 
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Nuns prepare to vote in the second round of the French presidential election at a polling station in Paris, France.
 
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Russia’s ambassador to Ireland Yury Filatov is blessed by Fr Micheal Nasanov at the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox church, in Harold’s Cross, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan
 
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ORTHODOX EASTER: Russian president Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/EPA
 
While Russia has been rendered a pariah country by Western states, it will remain part of the G-20 and associated organizations unless member countries achieve a consensus that it should go. Unlikely because several countries, including China, Brazil and South Africa, will support Russia's membership in the G-20.

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The members of the G20 are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.
 
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The Investigative Committee, Russia's equivalent of the FBI, has launched a new probe into allegations that British SAS troops are being used to sabotage the Ukraine invasion. They have warned British “mercenaries” that they face death if they remain in Ukraine fighting Vladimir Putin’s troops.
 
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has said that more than 951,000 Ukrainians have been deported to Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
 
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US military chief Lloyd Austin and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

"We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kind of things that it has done in invading Ukraine," Mr Austin said.
 
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Russian rouble hits near 2-year high vs euro

April 25 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble strengthened on Monday, firming past 77 against the euro to a near two-year high, helped by tax payments that companies are due to make this week and as the market looked ahead to a central bank rate decision on Friday.
 
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Åsgardstrand, Norway
Members of Greenpeace stage a protest by the the Ust Luga ship carrying Russian oil
Photograph: Ole Berg-Rusten/AP
 
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Sydney, Australia
Revellers play two-up outside the Australian Heritage hotel on Anzac Day – a national holiday in Australia that is traditionally marked by a dawn service held during the time of the original Gallipoli landing and commemorated with ceremonies and parades
Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
 
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Kharhiv, Ukraine
A woman and her children rest at a train station. Residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city have been forced to adapt to a new life underground amid the constant threat of Russian aerial attacks
Photograph: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock
 
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A man carries the body of a young girl during the funeral procession for seven people killed when a boat paced with migrants sunk over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore in Tripoli, north Lebanon. AP
 

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