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Dmytro Kovalenko (foreground) manager of Ukrainian restaurant Streecha in New York and employees watch Ukrainian President Zelenskyy deliver an address to the US Congress.
 

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TRUE COLOURS: American-Irish actor John C Reilly, posing with members of Clondalkin Youth Band, at an announcement by the St Patrick's Festival in Dublin that he is this year's international guest of honour at the event, running until March 20th. Photograph: Alan Betson
 
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Moscow, Russia
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov (right), and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, attend a meeting
Photograph: Russian foreign affairs ministry/EPA
 

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Hong Kong, China
Staff erect fences to block the access to Shek O beach. Hong Kong has closed government-managed beaches again in a further tightening of social distancing measures to prevent the spread of Covid
Photograph: Jérôme Favre/EPA
 
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Larysa Oleksandrivna, 75, stands in front of the ruined facade of her building in the Pavlove Pole residential area. The walls of the building crumbled after an air bomb hit the yard. Oleksandrivna now lives next door, but there is no heating.
Photograph: Andrii Bashtovyi
 
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Dublin, Ireland
A huge crowd outside the Temple Bar pub in Dublin city centre yesterday afternoon. Photograph: Sam Boal/RollingNews
 
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KYIV: An injured woman looks on as she receives medical treatment after shelling in a residential area in Kyiv on March 18th, as Russian troops try to encircle the Ukrainian capital as part of their slow-moving offensive. Authorities in Kyiv said one person was killed on Friday when a downed Russian rocket struck a residential building in the capital's northern suburbs. They said a school and playground were also hit. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
 
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Grazier John Ellrott said a heatwave that was affecting his property at Morinish and the surrounding Rockhampton region on 7 March culminated in a dry electrical storm. The next day Ellrott discovered his cows dead in a heap in a paddock.
 
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A concert in Lviv, Ukraine, is performed on March 16, 2022, to protest Russian attacks. The Lviv Symphony Orchestra and Mikola Lisenko Music Academy held concerts at Rynok Square and Svobody Street.
Abdullah Tevge / Anadolu Agency / Getty
 
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The fifth-largest stockpile of gold in the world belongs to Russia, valued at nearly $140 billion. This is why they bought their gold, it was for a situation just like this…..but if no one will trade it with you, it doesn't matter."

Last week, London's gold marketplace — the most important centre in the world for bullion — banned all bars from Russian refineries, effectively shutting it out of the global trade.
 
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During their Ukraine deployment Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechen units are believed to have lost hundreds of soldiers before eventually returning to Grozny on March 13.
 
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London, UK
The Ukrainian ballet dancer Katja Khaniukova and Aitor Arrieta of Spain perform No Man’s Land during Dance for Ukraine, a charity gala to raise funds for people in need in Ukraine, at the London Coliseum
Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
 
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London, UK
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle (R) welcomes Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, at the House of Commons in Westminster. Nazanin was released from detention in Iran after several years.
Photograph: Uk Parliament/Jessica Taylor
 
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Reuters / Sunday, March 20, 2022
Tetiana Chornovol, former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, now a service member and operator of an anti-tank guided missile weapon system, pulls an anti-tank missile out of a car at a position on the front line, in the Kyiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
 
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People dig a grave for victims in a street in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko
 
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TOTAL DESTRUCTION: Service personnel examine massive damage of a shopping centre wrought by shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo
 
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Family and friends follow the hearse of Australian cricket legend Shane Warne for a lap of the ground during a private memorial service at the St Kilda Football Club in Melbourne, Australia. David Caird/Pool
 
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Oldmeldrum, Scotland
Geoff Patterson in the still house at Glen Garioch’s Oldmeldrum Distillery in Scotland as it reopens to the public for the first time in two years following a £6m investment from its owner, Beam Suntory
Photograph: Robert Perry/PA
 

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