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President Macron welcomes India’s PM Narendra Modi before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes
 

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Russian navy sailors carry a coffin during a ceremony to rebuy the remains of 291 Red Army soldiers who went missing during WW2 in Sevastopol, Crimea. Reuters/Alexey PKavlishak
 
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UKRAINE: Natalia Rudneva (59) reacts as her son was hospitalised after night shelling in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Photograph: AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko
 

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The EU plans to block Russians from buying European real estate. In the proposal, the European Commission intends to stop property deals with Russian individuals, residents and entities — prohibiting the sale or transfer, directly or indirectly of ownership rights in property in the bloc.
 

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German fighter jets intercepted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft as it approached German airspace over the Baltic Sea. The Russian spy plane was discovered in international airspace off the German Baltic Sea island of Ruegen on Saturday, prompting a German Air Force alert.​

 
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Patrick Michael Jones, 34, a volunteer from Houston, U.S. helps Ukrainian women Vera, 59, centre, and Lilia, 55, to carry humanitarian aid in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Friday, May 6, 2022. Jones came to Ukraine to help having worked as a salesman at a gun store in Houston. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)
 
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On Friday afternoon (local time), 50 women, children and elderly people were evacuated from the Soviet-era Azovstal plant, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, adding that the operation would continue on Saturday.
 
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Irpin, Ukraine.
Alla hugs her son Savelii near the grave of Ihor Krotkih, her husband in Irpin. Krotkih was killed during the Russian occupation of the city. Her older son Vladsylav and his brother Yurii were badly injured in the battle as they tried to evacuate him.
Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images
 
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Russian navy cadets rehearse for the Victory Day military parade in Sevastopol. The parade will take place in Sevastopol on 9 May to celebrate 77 years since victory in the second world war. Photograph: AP
 
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Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Natalia Pototska with her grandson Matviy, at a centre for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
 
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Palestinians perform prayer after breaking their fast on the beach of Gaza City. Palestinians living in the Gaza enclave mark the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr celebrations against a backdrop of war. Photograph: Fatima Shbair/Petty Images
 
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Native bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) flowering in Philipshill wood near Chorleywood, UK. This year, logs and tree branches have been laid down either side of the paths by the Woodland Trust to deter people and dogs from trampling the delicate flowers. The native bluebell is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act meaning that flowers cannot be picked and bulbs cannot be dug up
Photograph: Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.
 
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Returning for the third time since its mining in 2901, the Red Cross – a fancy intense yellow, cushion-shaped 205.07 carat diamond – and a 228.31 carat white diamond called The Rock that could fetch $30 million and is the largest ever seen throughout auction market history are pictured during a preview at Christie’s before their auction sale in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
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An Afghan man rushes to the target with his horse during spear racing in the sprawling Chaman-e-Huzori park in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. AP
 
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ELECTION: Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Michelle O'Neill reacts to her election in Mid Ulster at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election count centre at Meadowbank Sports arena in Magherafelt, Co Derry. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
 
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Police are hunting for two men who attacked an army recruitment centre in Nizhnevartovsk, western Siberia with petrol bombs amid growing speculation that President Putin will announce a nationwide military mobilisation on Monday.
 
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US commission accuses Switzerland of hiding Russian assets

“Long known as a destination for war criminals and kleptocrats to stash their plunder, Switzerland is a leading enabler of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and his cronies. After looting Russia, Putin and his oligarchs use Swiss secrecy laws to hide and protect the proceeds of their crimes.”
 
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Civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol walk accompanied by a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and pro-Russian troops, as they arrive at a temporary accommodation center in the village of Bezimenne, during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine on May 6, 2022.
Alexander Ermochenko | Reuters
 
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead Sunday after a Russian bomb flattened a school sheltering about 90 people in its basement, while Ukrainian troops refused to surrender at a besieged steel plant that Moscow's invading forces sped to seize before Russia's Victory Day holiday.
 
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Dublin, Ireland
Ukraine’s flag unfurled today on Dublin’s Grafton Street for the March 4 Peace in stark contrast to the tanks and nukes paraded on Red Square for Russia's V/Z-Day.
 
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Aproz, Switzerland
Two Herens cows lock horns during the qualification round of the annual Herens national cow fighting finals. Each year when taken to the alpine pastures, the cows test their strength and fight for the herd’s leadership. The competition continues until a new queen has forced all the other cows to retreat
Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
 


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