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Firefighers take a body from the burned Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia, off the coast of the Ionian island of Corfu, on Sunday. Photograph: Hellenic Fire Service/AFP via Getty Images
 

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A new nursery rhyme is doing the rounds at Buckingham Palace: ‘The grand old Duke of York, he had 12 million quid. He gave it to someone he’d never met, for something he never did’
 
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Pro-Russian activists react after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities, in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, Feb. 21, 2022.

Russia could now move in troops at the request of separatist officials, or to protect hundreds of thousands of residents who have been granted Russian passports, justifying an intervention as a defence of its citizens. Ukraine would then either have to accept the loss of a huge chunk of territory, or face an armed conflict against its vastly more powerful neighbour….. https://insiderpaper.com/putin-to-recognise-ukraine-rebel-territories-as-independent-kremlin/
 

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Kiev, Ukraine
Activists perform in front of the Russian embassy. Eleven broken doors were installed as a symbol of 11 broken lives of civic journalists and Crimean Tatars. More than a hundred activists and Crimean Tatars have been detained by the Russian authorities for their civic stance since the annexation of Crimea in 2014
Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
 
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New York, US
Ilyasah Shabazz, an author and the daughter of Malcom X, addresses a gathering to celebrate her father’s life and legacy on the 57th anniversary of his death yesterday
Photograph: Anadolu agency/Getty Images
 
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People leave after the opening ceremony of the Museum of the Future, an exhibition space for innovative and futuristic ideas in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 
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In this photo provided by the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, lawmakers listen to the national
anthem as they attend a session in Moscow. Lawmakers gave President Putin permission to use military forces outside the country.
 
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CRISIS ESCALATES: 22 February 2022. Ukrainians protest in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, after Russian president Vladimir Putin officially recognised breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states and ordered the deployment of 'peacekeeping' troops to the Donbas, triggering an expected series of economic sanctions by Western countries. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
 

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SAD TIME: Mourners at the funeral of Ukrainian Army Captain Anton Sidorov in Kyiv, Ukraine, after he was killed by shelling in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/New York Times
 
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NATO Secretary General Jens in Brussels, 22 Feb. 2022.

World leaders hit back with non-military actions in hopes of averting a full-blown war in Europe. Germany made the first big move, taking steps to halt certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia — a massive, lucrative deal long sought by Moscow but criticized by the U.S. for increasing Europe’s reliance on Russian energy supplies.
 
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The U.K. has slapped economic sanctions on five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals - Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg and Igor Rotenberg. They will see their U.K. assets frozen and be banned from travelling to the country and all individuals in the UK and entities will also be barred from having any dealings with them.
 
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Greenwich, UK
The Trafalgar Coat, worn by Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is moved before being 3D digitalised for the National Maritime Museum’s website. The hole from the bullet that killed him is visible in the left shoulder of the coat
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
 
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, walks with Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary at the Amalienborg courtyard in Copenhagen, Denmark REUTERS
 
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A woman holds her dog as she waits with others to cross from Ukrainian government controlled areas to pro-Russian separatists’ controlled territory in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (AP)
 
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CEREMONY: Russian president Vladimir Putin (right) attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden of Moscow’s Kremlin, in Russia, during the national celebration of the Day of Defender of the Fatherland. Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin pool/Sputnik/Pool
 
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Russians in Moscow watch a televised address by Vladimir Putin about authorising a military operation in the Ukrainian Donbass region. He announced the aim is to ‘demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians’
Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA
 
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The UK ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, and the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, talk while the Ukraine ambassador to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, speaks on his phone after an emergency meeting at the UN headquarters in New York
Photograph: Jason Szenes/EPA
 
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A placard featuring an image of Russian President Putin which reads: “We are with him for the sovereignty of Russia! And you?” is seen in front of the Russian State Duma building in central Moscow.
 
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RUSSIAN EMBASSY: A garda at the entrance to the Russian embassy in Dublin where red paint was poured on the coat of arms of the Russian Federation following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
 
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Moscow, Russia
Pakistan’s prime minister. Imran Khan, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow’s Alexander Garden by the Kremlin Wall
Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS
 

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