US President Joe Biden on Saturday headed to London to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
The state funeral, the first in Britain since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, will take place Monday at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am .
While the leaders of the European Union, France, Japan and many other countries will attend, those of Russia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea were not invited. A meeting Biden was to have held Monday with new Prime Minister Liz Truss at her Downing Street residence has been canceled, US and British officials announced, but the two instead will meet Wednesday in New York when both arrive to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly.Their presence -- along with that of hundreds of thousands of mourners from across Britain and around the world -- poses an extraordinary challenge to British police.
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