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Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and US First Lady Jill Biden visit Connor Downs Academy in Hayle, Cornwall on the sidelines of the G7 summit. Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images
 
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Novak Djokovic has ended king of clay Rafael Nadal’s unreal French Open reign, producing an almost superhuman performance to finally knock out the 13-time champion in one of the game’s most spellbinding matches.Djokovic milks the applause during his epic win over Rafael Nadal. Photo: AAP
 
We had a gun buyback a few years ago and confiscated 650,000 guns

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On April 28, 1996, a 28-year-old man with a troubled past named Martin Bryant walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, a tourist town on the island of Tasmania, and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. He killed 35 people and wounded another 28.

Australia's prime minister at the time, John Howard, had taken office just six weeks earlier at the head of a center-right coalition. He quickly drew a very clear conclusion from the Port Arthur killing: Australia had too many guns, and they were too easy to get.

Howard persuaded both his coalition and Australia's states (the country has a federal system) to agree to a sweeping, nationwide reform of gun laws. The so-called National Firearms Agreement (NFA), drafted the month after the shooting, sharply restricted legal ownership of firearms in Australia. It also established a registry of all guns owned in the country, among other measures, and required a permit for all new firearm purchases.
 
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Jerusalem, Israel
The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett (front left) and the foreign minister Yair Lapid (front right) attend a group photo with ministers of the new Israeli government. A disparate collection of parties forged a governing coalition to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 year stint as prime minister and two years of inconclusive election. Photograh: Amir Levy/Getty Images
 
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June 14, 2021: A man lays flowers on rusty railway tracks near old wagons at the Naujoji Vilnia Railway Station in Vilnius, Lithuania, as Lithuania marked the mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation. Deportation started on June 14, 1941, where some 280,000 people were deported to Siberian gulags, a year after Soviet troops had occupied Lithuania.
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Warsaw, Poland
People come to see the rare blooming of the endangered Sumatran titan arum, or corpse flower, that is in full bloom for just a few hours and emits a rotten meat odour. Hundreds of people waited for hours in cold wind to see the unusual flower. Photograpj: Monika Scislowska/AP
 
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Ziona Chana with his family in Mizoram, India. He had about 38 wives
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An Indian man believed to be the head of the world’s largest family has died leaving behind roughly 38 wives, 89 children and 33 grandchildren. Ziona Chana would often forget how many wives and children he had after becoming a household name in the state of Mizoram. His four-storey home in Baktawng village had been a tourist attraction for years.

He died in hospital from age-related health complications at 76. Chana belonged to a sect created by his grandfather which allowed polygamy for men. He married his first wife, Zathiangi, when he was 17. She still runs the show as the “head wife”.

 
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Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo wave as they meet members of the media behind a glass wall before the Shenzhou-12 mission to build China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

JIUQUAN, China, June 16 (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts into orbit on Thursday in a high-stakes mission, the first of four crewed space flights to complete the country’s space station by the end of next year.
 
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A former senior prosecutor told Channel 4 News that there was sufficient evidence for police to investigate the allegations, which span more than a decade despite Scotland Yard’s refusal to open a full inquiry. The alleged victims include a woman known as Minor Victim 3 who says that she was “groomed” by Maxwell and sexually abused by Epstein, an American financier, in London beginning in 1994-95. Another woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 37, claims that she was trafficked to London and pressured by Epstein and Maxwell into sexual relations with Prince Andrew at Maxwell’s home in Mayfair, central London, in March 2001. Source: The Times
 
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Credit: Eric Smith who writes: In March of 2020, the week before the world shut down, I returned to Baja’s San Ignacio Lagoon to photograph the migratory gray whales. I had been there in 2017 and it changed my life. The ability to have such close contact with those amazingly intelligent and friendly creatures was like nothing I had ever experienced. Every morning, small groups of visitors board small motorboats known as pangas, to see the whales. In this photograph, a panga with people from my camp were approached by a mother and her baby, known as “a cow and calf pair.” The calf made an appearance near the bow of the boat causing everyone to look forward. A second later, the mother emerged a foot behind the stern in behavior called a spy hop. She slowly and silently stuck her head high above the water to look around. I was in another panga a few dozen feet away and caught the moment right before everyone realized she was so close. When everyone turned around, she quickly sank below the surface. Cheering and hysterical laughter ensued.
 
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Paris
Hugo Marchand and Dorothee Gilbert of the Paris Opera Ballet dance for Maely, a patient in the intensive care child unit of the Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades. Photograph: Lucas Barioulet/AFP/Getty Images


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Dorothee Gilbert and Hugo Marchand
 

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