News photos of the day

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About 2000 sheep are led on the Champs-Elysees Avenue to close the International Agricultural Fair in Paris

 

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Ukrainian refugees queue to apply for residency permits at the Czech Republic's foreigner-police headquarters in Prague. More than one million civilians have fled the war to neighbouring countries, including Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova.

 

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Members of Parliament applaud Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, who was watching Prime Minister's Questions from the House of Commons gallery, in London. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said: "Your excellence, we generally do not allow applause in this chamber but on this occasion, the House quite rightly wants to demonstrate our respect and support for your country and its people in the most difficult of times."

 

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A "President Zelensky Way" sign placed in front of the Russian embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday, March 6, 2022.Claude Taylor, Mad Dog PAC

 

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Irpin, Ukraine
A member of the Ukrainian armed forces helps to evacuate a child from the town via the only escape route used by locals after days of heavy shelling
Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

 

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Weliweriya, Sri Lanka
A man places a sheet on the body of the elephant Nadugamuwa Raja, who carried a golden casket of relics at an annual Buddhist pageant. The death has initiated calls for a state funeral
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

 

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Alexandra 12, holds her sister Esysea 6, who cries as she waves at her mother Irina while members of the Jewish community of Odessa board a bus to flee Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Odessa, Ukraine.

 

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In the capital Kyiv, people flocked to the train station to flee the city after Russia announced a temporary ceasefire

 

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Min Sansar/Getty Images
Two ceasefire attempts in Mariupol, where people are running out of food, collapsed at the weekend

 

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Ukraine’s first International legion of territorial defense forces– fighters from the US, Mexico, India, Sweden, and more.

 

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Calais, France
Ukrainian refugees who have fled the conflict sit with British government officials filling out paperwork as they seek to enter the UK, at the ferry terminal. The Home Office has been accused of having a chaotic response to the Ukraine refugee crisis, amid confusion over whether more measures will be introduced to help people seek sanctuary in the UK
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

 

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Lahore, Pakistan
Women of the religious Islamic party hold placards as they march to mark International Women’s Day
Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

 

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A woman comforts her child as a pet dog looks on at a refugee shelter after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Beregsurany, Hungary, 7 March. Reuters/Bernadett Szabo

 

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the screen, received a standing ovation after he addresses British lawmakers by video link in the House of Commons in London, 8 March 2022. The Ukranian leader urged the UK to increase sanctions on Russia, tpo recognize Russia as “a terrorist country” and to keep Ukraine’s skies safe.

 

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Reuters
This aerial view shows a residential building that was destroyed by shelling in the town of Borodyanka, near Kyiv

 

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DOWNTOWN KYIV: A woman carries her shopping past Czech hedgehog defence beams in downtown Kyiv. Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine has caused destruction of civilian infrastructure as well as civilian casualties, with tens of thousands internally displaced and more than two million refugees fleeing Ukraine, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze/EPA

 

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McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are the latest multinational companies to announce they're pausing business operations in Russia to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 

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An injured pregnant woman is taken from the wreckage of the destroyed children’s hospital in Mariupol

 

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UKRAINE CRISIS: Ukrainian servicemen and family members attend a funeral ceremony for three Ukrainian soldiers killed in fighting with Russian forces, in Lviv. Photograph: Mykola Tys/EPA

 

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DEEP END: The stern of the wreck of Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, which has been found in the Weddell Sea. Photograph: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Geographic/PA Wire

 

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Luhansk, Ukraine
A wounded Ukrainian serviceman is passed a cigarette after a battle with Russian troops
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images

 

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Olga hugs her boyfriend Vlodomyr as they say goodbye prior to his deployment closer to the front line, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine

 

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Houses inundated with floodwaters from an overflowing Hawkesbury River are pictured in the Windsor suburb of Sydney
AFP via Getty Images

 

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Health authorities have blocked Novak Djokovic from entering the United States, and the world No.2 has subsequently withdrawn from a pair of major American tournaments.

 

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Sydney, Australia
Russian loyalists have taken to the streets outside the Kremlin's Australian embassy to show their support for their country's invasion of Ukraine. Sydney-based Russians have repeatedly gathered outside the consulate in Woollahra in the city's east over the past two weeks to show their support for the war. Led by ultra pro-Vladimir Putin activist Simeon Boikov, dozens stood outside the consulate again on Wednesday bearing the flags and insignia of their homeland.