Falmouth, England
A table of customers are served full English breakfasts at an indoor table at Jann’s Diner, Redruth. England implements the step 3 in its road map out of coronavirus lockdown on Monday. The service industry can welcome customers inside premises to eat and drink. Photograph: Hugh Hastings/Getty Images.
SEEKING A NEW LIFE: Migrants manage to grab onto a boat operated by Moroccan authorities near the Moroccan coast as they try to cross over to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in north Africa. Photograph: Mohamed Siali/EPA
Fnideq, Morocco
Spanish security forces launch teargas canisters across a border fence as Moroccan migrants rally in the northern town of Fnideq in an attempt to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. At least 5,000 migrants slipper into Ceuta on 17 May, a record for a single day, Spanish authorities said. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
TIDAL FLATS: Horse-drawn carriages drive through mudflats near Cuxhaven, northern Germany. A very large tidal flat has formed in the mudflats between the island of Neuwerk and the mainland, and there is a danger the island will be cut off from the mainland. The inhabitants of Neuwerk and the carriage drivers embarked on the convoy to lobby for the preservation of the route over the tidal flat. Photograph: Sina Schuldt/dpa/AP
A Kashmiri doctor in protective suit takes a nasal swab sample of a nomad to test for COVID-19 in Budgam southwest of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 1904 uprising of the native Herero in German South West Africa was quickly snuffed out by German troops
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Germany is preparing to pay Namibia reparations for a colonial-era genocide in which it killed about 75,000 people.
In 1904 imperial German forces crushed an uprising by the native Herero people and drove the survivors into the desert, where thousands died of starvation or dehydration. Over the next four years the Herero and Namaqua ethnic groups were corralled into concentration camps where at least half of the inmates died of disease, malnourishment, overwork, beatings and executions.
Washington, DC, US
A robin eats a newly-emerged brood X periodical cicada. Trillion of brook X cicadas are emerging in the mid-Atlantic region of the US. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
Ceuta, Spain
Photograph: Spanish Guardia Civil/AFP/Getty Images Juan Francisco, an officer with the Spanish Guardia Civil, rescues a baby boy from the waters off Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after his mother attempted to swim across from Morocco
Paris, France
Visitors gather in front of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre as France eases its nationwide lockdown measures. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images
Hamas is willing to enter into a ceasefire agreement with Israel's military contingent on two conditions, according to a senior Hamas official.
"One, Israeli forces must stop incursions into the Al-Asqa compound and respect the site.
Two, Israel must stop the forced evacuation of the Palestinian residents in the Sheikh Jarah neighbourhood. This condition is in accordance with international law, not only a condition expected by the Hamas authority."
Martin Bashir lied to Diana in his famous interview
Journalist Martin Bashir.
Bashir, 58, has apologised for the deceit following former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson’s findings, saying he “deeply regrets it”. “I apologised then, and I do so again now, over the fact that I asked for bank statements to be mocked up. It was a stupid thing to do and was an action I deeply regret.
An internal BBC investigation into Bashir after the interview, headed by Lord Hall of Birkenhead, which cleared the reporter, was condemned by Lord Dyson in a damning 127-report. Hall went on to become director-general of the BBC.
Bashir has now stepped down from his role as BBC news religion editor on health grounds.
Bangkok, Thailand
A labrador retriever sniffs canisters containing human sweat samples to detect Covid-19 at an animal teaching hospital at Chulalongkorn University. The dog has been trained to sit down immediately when detecting infection and has an accuracy rate of nearly 95% in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
DESTRUCTION: Israeli foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi (centre) and his German counterpart Heiko Maas (right) visit a building that was hit during Israeli-Palestinian fighting, on May 20th in Petah Tikva. Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty
An Israeli soldier walks at a staging ground near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
...........Like the three previous wars between the bitter enemies, the latest round of fighting ended inconclusively. Israel claimed to inflict heavy damage on Hamas but once again was unable to halt the Islamic militant group’s nonstop rocket barrages. Almost immediately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced angry accusations from his hard-line, right-wing base that he stopped the operation too soon…….
Australia
Young people around the country have been seen telling Boomers to put down the avocado toast, stop being so entitled and go out and get a jab. This comes after research suggests nearly 30% of Australians are now hesitant to get the life saving vaccine over a blood-clotting risk potentially high as 0.0017%, which has led to the Boomer generation to be way too ‘choosy’ about which vaccine to have. Now young people have had enough and have told the lazy Boomers to ‘go out an get a vaccine, any of the vaccines are better than nothing.’
Deputy Prime Minister Manasseh Maelanga gets the first Sinopharm shot in the Solomon Islands, while the Prime Minister and Chinese ambassador look on. ABC: Evan Wasuka
A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine has been launched in the Pacific, with the Deputy Prime Minister of Solomon Islands receiving the first Sinopharm shot in the region.
An ex-BBC executive, Tim Suter, who was part of the 1996 internal investigation into Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana has quit Ofcom.
Ofcom's chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said: 'By mutual agreement, Tim Suter, Ofcom board member and chair of Ofcom's content board, is stepping down with immediate effect.
Sydney, Australia
Participants benefit from a mass meditation class to celebrate World Meditation Day at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP
Some of the Canadian victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, which was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 aboard. PHOTO BY HANDOUT
Iran intentionally shot down an airliner packed with Canadian citizens and residents more than a year ago in an act of terrorism, an Ontario judge has ruled, adding judicial theft to allegations the crash was not just a tragic accident.
A jury will now decide how much Iran should pay the victims. ‘We will seize and sell any Iranian assets worldwide that we can get our hands on’ their lawyer said.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has held power for more than two decades. (AP: Andrei Stasevich
EU leaders have described the arrest of Roman Protasevich as a "hijacking" and "state terrorism"
In response to his arrest after the forced diversion of a Ryanair flight, the EU will ban Belarus from its airspace and airports
Belarusian state television released a short clip of Mr Protasevich confessing to involvement in the protests, which his allies have said was coerced.
A view shows shallow sand graves of people, some of which are suspected to have died from coronavirus, on the banks of the river Ganges in Phaphamau on the outskirts of Prayagraj, India. Reuters/Ritesh Shukla
