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Pope Francis praises predecessor Benedict on 70th anniversary of ordination

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The Spanish cabinet has passed a draft bill on LGBTQ rights (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP)

Spain’s ministers pass draft bill to allow transgender people to change gender

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South African President Jacob Zuma (Lewis Whyld/PA)

Ex-South African president Jacob Zuma ordered to serve prison term

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Flowers and candles in front of a closed and cordoned off department store in the city centre of Wuerzburg, Germany (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP)

Islamist extremist motive considered by investigators probing Germany attack

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A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso, left, and a 1905 representational oil painting of a riverside windmill by the Dutch painter Mondrian are displayed by police officers, in Athens during a press conference (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Stolen Picasso painting to go back on display in Greece after suspect arrested

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A man rides a bicycle past a closed dance floor belted with police tape due to coronavirus in a park in Moscow, Russia (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Russia announces largest daily death toll as pandemic surges

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Jacob Zuma (Martin Rickett/PA)

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma handed prison term

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People wait for their turn to get the Sinovac vaccine during a mass Covid-19 vaccination held by the Indonesia military in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia (Binsar Bakkara/AP)

Indonesia on the verge of a coronavirus ‘catastrophe’, Red Cross warns

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (Ace Morandante/AP)

Philippines leader may run for vice presidency next year

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South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look through rubble for survivors at the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building

Rescue crews start sixth day searching for survivors of condo collapse

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IIsraeli foreign minister Yair Lapid

New Israeli foreign minister lands in UAE on first state visit

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China Party Centenary

China’s leader Xi Jinping hands out medals amid party celebrations

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AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Australia offers AstraZeneca jab to all adults to speed up rollout

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The sun shines near the Space Needle, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Seattle

Northwest US faces hottest day of intense heatwave

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Brits will need a negative PCR test or proof that they have been fully vaccinated to visit the Balearic Islands.

Spain demands negative PCR tests for Brits going to Balearic Islands

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An injured victim of an alleged airstrike on a village arrives in an ambulance at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region (AP)

Ethiopia accepts call for immediate ceasefire in Tigray

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French President Emmanuel Macron, is welcomed by conservative northern France region president Xavier Bertrand, left, upon his arrival to visit the site of the future factory of Japan-based battery maker Envision AESC group (Ludovic Marin/AP)

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen lick wounds after France’s regional elections

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Chicago police at the scene where at least six people were shot in the 2000 block of East 71st Street in the South Shore neighbourhood (Tyler LaRiviere/AP)

Violence continues in Chicago with more fatal shootings

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