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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters as he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House on April 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, Meloni is in Washington to discuss a range of bilateral issues, negotiate the 20 percent “reciprocal” tariff Trump imposed on European imports to the U.S. and to discuss pharmaceutical imports. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured attending an Orthodox Easter service at the Christ The Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, announced a brief Easter ceasefire on Saturday.
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A couple walks by flags and portraits of fallen servicemen at a makeshift memorial for the fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters, at the Independence Square in Kyiv on April 19, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced an Easter truce in the conflict in Ukraine starting this evening and lasting till midnight on April 20, 2025.
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