News photos of the day

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, hug Lisa Johnston, a former army medic and amputee, who celebrates with her medal at the Invictus Games venue in The Hague, Netherlands.
 

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Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrates his victory over Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina during the final match of the Monte-Carlo Masters tennis tournament in Monaco.
 
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Members of the gaming community compete during the four-day Insomnia Gaming Festival at the NEC in Birmingham, central England. The festival is set to attract 40,000 visitors and will host the UK's largest LAN (Local Area Network) competitions in their Bring Your Own Computer area where 2,800 gamers will be able to enjoy non-stop, 24-hour gaming.
 

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Co Leitrim, Ireland
Leader and owner Colman Cogan, Kilmovee, Co Mayo, and ploughman Dean Hall, Ballinacarrow, Co Sligo, put Ned and Ted the Shire draught horses through their paces at the Annual Ploughing Match hosted by the Co Leitrim Ploughing Association in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim. Photograph: Gerry Faughnan
 
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KHARKIV: Injured people react following a Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Saturday. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and its surroundings have been heavily shelled by Russian forces since the invasion began on February 24th. Photograph: Sergey Kozlov/EPA
 
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Former vice-president of Russian bank Gazprombank, his wife and daughter found shot dead in Moscow. Preliminary investigation believes that 50-year-old Vladislav Avayev killed his wife and 13-year-old daughter, and later committed suicide.

Suicide or murder?
 
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The mother of a sailor who survived the sinking of the Moskva last week has contradicted claims by the Kremlin that the 500 crew members were safely evacuated, saying that dozens died or suffered horrific injuries.
 
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Smoke rises above Mariupol, Ukraine on 18 April. Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol have rejected Russia’s demands to surrender and are still resisting an unrelenting assault on the southeastern port city. The city has been surrounded by Russian troops since 1 March. Alexnder Ermochenko/Reuters
 
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Ukrainian millionaire Andrey Stavnitser contacted Kyiv's military to bomb his own house after he discovered Russians were using it as a military base. Stavnitser was forced to flee his home in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin’s troops invaded the village and occupied his home on March 5
 
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IRPIN GRAVES: A communal worker sets a cross on a grave during a funeral at a cemetery in Irpin, where there are at least three rows of new graves for those killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty
 
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Syrians break their fast during an iftar gathering organized in Tadef near the border city of al-Bab, which is controlled by Turkish-backed rebels in Syria’s eastern countryside of Aleppo province, 18 April, 2022. AFP
 
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Julia Roberts and Sean Penn attend the world premiere of the limited television series Gaslit, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photograph: Peter Foley/EPA
 
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After years of resisting advertisements on its streaming service, Netflix is now “open” to offering lower-priced tiers with ads, co-CEO Reed Hastings said Tuesday. Hastings has long been opposed to adding commercials or other promotions to the platform. He said during the company’s pre-recorded earnings conference call, however, that it “makes a lot of sense” to offer customers a cheaper option.
 
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The German justice minister says the delivery of tanks and other heavy weaponry to Ukraine would not - by international law - constitute his country’s entry into the war against Russia. The German government said it plans to release more than 1 billion euros ($1.08 billion) in military aid to Ukraine following complaints by Kyiv that it is not receiving heavy weapons from Berlin.
 
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A medical team prepared to start surgery on a Ukrainian soldier in a hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine. Reuters/Marko Djurica
 
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Vova 10, looks at the body of his mother, Maryna, lying in a coffin as his father Ivan Drahun, prays during her funeral in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.
 
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HONG KONG, April 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan is a part of China and no one can change that, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Wednesday during a rare phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a statement from Beijing.
 
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The extradition order was issued for Julian Assange by the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, who told Assange: “In layman’s terms, I am duty bound to send your case to the secretary of state Priti Patel for a decision.”
 
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US, UK and Canada walk out of G20 meeting over war in Ukraine. The US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told attendees she disapproved of a senior Russian official’s presence.
 
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GALWAY, Ireland, April 20 (Reuters) - When Irishman Barry Haughian and his Spanish wife Lola watched Ukrainians flee their homes but had no space to help in their house in Madrid, they decided to offer up their second home instead - a 15th century castle in the west of Ireland.
 
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A new photograph issued to mark the occasion of her 96th birthday shows the Queen with her ponies Bybeck Nightingale (left) and Bybeck Katie (right). Photograph: Royal Windsor Horse Show/PA
 
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China’s foreign ministry announced late on Tuesday that a security deal with Solomon Islands had been signed. The prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare and the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, in 2019. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
 
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Mariupol steelworks: 'We have wounded and dead inside the bunkers'. Svyatoslav Palamar from the controversial Azov regiment said defenders had repelled waves of Russian attacks. ......"but as long as we are here, Mariupol remains under the control of Ukraine," he said.
 
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates at the end of his quarterfinal tennis match against Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia at the Sebia Open tennis tournament in Belgrade. AP
 
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Maria Verbyana, a 19 year old Ukrainian woman who returns to her homeland for Easter, wait for a bus to Lviv at a bus station in Warsaw, Poland. 21 April 2022. Reuters
 

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