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The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is pulled by one of the Suez Canal tugboats, in the Suez Canal, Egypt (Suez Canal Authority/PA)

Suez Canal open for business again as salvage workers free container ship

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Myanmar

Thai soldiers ‘returning people to Myanmar’ after thousands flee air strikes

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President Arif Alvi (Anjum Naveed/AP)

Pakistan president says he has Covid-19 despite having first vaccine dose

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Young people enjoy the sunset at the bridge ‘Hackerbruecke’ in Munich, Germany (Matthias Schrader/AP)

Number of foreigners living in Germany shows lowest rate of increase in a decade

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Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of then US President Barack Obama, shakes the hand of a well-wisher (Ben Curtis/AP)

Tributes for matriarch of Obama family in Kenya following death ‘aged 99’

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Defence lawyer Eric Nelson, left, and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listen in court (AP)

Police officer ‘squeezed life out of’ George Floyd, prosecution claims

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Migrants gather outside their tents at Karatepe refugee camp, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece (Panagiotis Balaskas/AP)

Commissioner calls for EU solidarity on migration during visit to Greek islands

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George Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump addresses media along with other lawyers and members of George Floyd’s family outside the Hennepin County Government Centre (Jim Mone/AP)

Trial of ex-policeman accused over death of George Floyd gets under way

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Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Suez Canal (Mohamed Elshahed/AP)

Workers free stricken container ship which was blocking Suez Canal

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The Ever Given has finally been freed

Vast container ship blocking Suez Canal is finally freed

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An employee unloads the newly arrived coronavirus vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm at the logistics base set up to in the car park of the government office in the 13th district of Budapest, Hungary (Noemi Bruzak/AP)

Hungary death toll remains high despite impressive vaccination campaign

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Revellers enjoy a music concert in Barcelona, Spain

In Video: Spanish rock fans revel in freedom with biggest gig since pandemic

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Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal looms over the village of Amer, near Suez, Egypt (Mohamed Elshahed/AP)

Villagers have the perfect view of efforts to free stricken container ship

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People at a vaccine centre in Lahore (K. M. Chaudary/AP)

Partial lockdown imposed in capital of Pakistan after surge in virus

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Tug boats work to free the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Ever Given

Container ship stuck in Suez Canal ‘partially refloated’

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A member of the police bomb squad, left, holds a piece of cloth found at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomb attack at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (Yusuf Wahil/AP)

Newlyweds identified as pair who targeted Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday

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Indonesia refinery fire

Hundreds evacuated amid fire at oil refinery

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Merkel blames German ‘perfectionism’ for current virus woes

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