Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, who is responsible for negotiations with Moscow on returning the remains of deceased Russian soldiers, said that despite repeated offers for Russia to present lists of the missing and have them returned, officials in Moscow were more concerned about covering up the scale of the losses.
People take shelter in the basement of a school where they have been living for a month as Russian troops camped a few kilometres away looting the city. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
Director Francis Ford Coppola speaks next to Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as The Godfather is honoured on its 50th anniversary
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A woman walks past a poster depicting President Putin holding his own body, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues in Sofia, Bulgaria. Reuters/Spasiyana Sergieva
A member of the Household Cavalry lies on the ground after falling from his horse during the Changing of the Guard ceremony in London. Reuters/Tom Nicholson
Competitors take part in the Stage 2 of the 36th edition of the Marathon des Sables between Ouest Aguenoun n'Oumerhiout and Rich Mbirika in the Moroccan Sahara desert, central Morocco.
GUNSHOT WOUND: Oleksii (20), chats with another patient at a hospital in Kyiv, as he recovers from a gunshot wound to the leg he received as a volunteer fighter. Fighting raged across Ukraine on Monday, with Ukrainian forces appearing to make gains in the northeast, and Russia continuing its assault on Mariupol. Photograph: Ivor Prickett/New York Times
Lismore, northern NSW
Campervans that were provided for flood victims who have lost their homes just weeks ago are now having to move to higher ground as more evacuations are predicted.
Although Sydney has escaped major flooding, people living in Lismore and other northern areas of NSW are gearing up for a second flood after still recovering from the last one just weeks ago.
A member of the Household Cavalry lies on the ground after falling from his horse during the Changing of the Guard ceremony in London. Reuters/Tom Nicholson
Note that the Police officers are both armed with pistols and semi automatic weapons. The center of London has had many actual terror attacks over the past decades, so armed Police are everywhere. JimB.
Siege is the way to break the will and humiliate and finally to control said Mouna Khaity, a health researcher who lived through the Syrian government’s five year siege of Eastern Ghouta, an area near Damascus. Once the children get hungry, the fire was gone from their eyes, she said. With little food left, the civilians of Mariupol now realize that the Russians are using hunger as an effective weapon of war.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Firefighters in the Brovary district at a bombed logistics warehouse that contained 50,000 tonnes of food
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El Salvador’s president has threatened to punish 16,000 imprisoned gang members if the wave of deadly violence gripping the country continues. Nayib Bukele gave leaders of notorious gangs, including MS-13 and Barrio 18, an ultimatum on Monday, after police reported 87 killings since Friday alone.
Mariupol, Ukraine
A pro-Russia soldier walks near an apartment building destroyed in the Ukraine-Russia conflict
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Russia’s defence minister is ensconced in a nuclear bunker in the Ural mountains, according to investigators, after weeks of speculation about his conspicuous absence. Flight data shows that Sergei Shoigu has been travelling to and from bunkers 1,000 miles east of Moscow since the start of the invasion, as the threat of nuclear war reaches its highest level in decades.
Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Suspected drug smugglers are paraded at a press conference at the regional police headquarters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country's ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told President Zelenskiy that Germany is ready to act a security guarantor for Ukraine, The Ukrainian negotiators said in Istanbul that they had proposed that Ukraine adopt neutral status in exchange for security guarantees, meaning that it would not join military alliances or host military bases for other countries.
Ahmedabad, India
Workers sort through beer and spirit bottles before they are destroyed by police after being seized. Alcohol is prohibited in the western state
Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP
Melbourne, Australia
A fan with a tattoo of the late cricketer Shane Warne poses in front of a statue of him before his state memorial service
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Dorchester, England
Greer, Guardian Angel, a sculpture by Ed Elliott at Sculpture By The Lakes, an art exhibition that spans 26 acres
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Cars drive along a street with a huge letter Z - which has become a symbol of the Russian military, and a hashtag reading "We don't abandon our own" - on a building during sunset in Moscow, Russia.
YACHT SEIZURE: Phi, the Russian-owned super yacht, docked at Canary Wharf in London. The UK government has seized the €38 million super yacht as part of sanctions against Russia. The yacht is the first to be detained in the UK under sanctions imposed due to the war in Ukraine. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
