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The open-air mass was attended by an estimated 200,000 people including 54 heads of state and 12 reigning sovereigns.

From the suggestive Trump-Zelenskyy summit to the second-ever encounter between the US president and Ursula von der Leyen: The funeral ceremony for Pope Francis offered several significant developments.

US president admits to concern Russian counterpart does not want to ‘stop the war’ and ponders new approach to Moscow

The president left Rome straight after service

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met briefly in the hush of St Peter's basilica on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday in their first encounter since a noisy White House clash, as the US president pushes the Ukrainian leader to make a peace deal with Russia.

A strict dress code dictated men should wear a dark suit with a long black tie and white shirt

It emerged that US leader Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky met before the mass.

Applause rings out as late pontiff’s wooden coffin carried from altar of St Peter’s Basilica for open-air ceremony

In break with recent tradition, 88-year-old leader of Catholic world was buried in Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica.

The Ukrainian president and his US counterpart met within St Peter’s Basilica after they each paid respects at Pope Francis’ coffin.

The meeting before Pope Francis’s funeral was their first since an angry encounter in Washington, DC, in February.