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Lin-Manuel Miranda (Matt Crossick/PA)

Curtain raiser announced for 2021’s Tribeca Film Festival

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Police officers wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus guard an entrance of the prison colony IK-2, where Alexei Navalny was detained (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Alexei Navalny says he is being threatened with force-feeding

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An Olympic torch relay runner, centre left, carries the torch on the second day of the Osaka leg in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan (Hiro Komae/AP)

Japan raises coronavirus alert level near Tokyo months ahead of Olympics

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Jimmy Lai

Media Mogul and Hong King pro-democracy advocate sentenced to jail

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Palestinian worshipers pray during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at the al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Muslims pray at sacred Jerusalem site on first Friday of Ramadan

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee palace (Lewis Joly/Associated Press)

Ukraine’s president visits Paris amid Russian troops deployment near border

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People over age 60 wait in an hours-long line to get the AstraZeneca vaccine, on the day Mexico began vaccinating its elderly population against Covid-19, outside a health centre in the outlying Milpa Alta borough of Mexico City (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

World health boss warns of escalating rate of coronavirus infection across the world

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Medical personnel wearing protective equipment work in the intensive care ward for Covid-19 patients at the SRH Waldklinikum hospital in Gera, Germany (Bodo Schackow/AP)

Angela Merkel urges German politicians to pass ’emergency brake’ Covid bill

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Police security forces stand by inside a police vehicle and on the sidewalk of Hledan Road in Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar (AP)

Opponents of Myanmar coup say they have formed interim unity government

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Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, chant slogans during a protest against the arrest of their party leader, Saad Rizvi, in Lahore, Pakistan (K.M. Chaudary/AP)

Pakistan blocks social media access following anti-French protests

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Pro-democracy activist Martin Lee, centre, arrives at a court in Hong Kong (Kin Cheung/AP)

Media mogul among Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners sentenced to jail terms

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Motorist traverse an almost empty Commonwealth Avenue as the government implements a strict lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Quezon city, Philippines

Philippines president warns worst is yet to come amid vaccine shortage

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Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran (AP)

Iran begins enrichment of uranium to highest level yet

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Adam Toledo shooting

Chicago boy ‘was not holding gun’ when shot by police officer

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Hong Kong

Nine campaigners jailed in Hong Kong for organising anti-government protests

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Emergency services at the scene

Eight people shot dead at Indianapolis FedEx facility

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Chris Lambert

Podcast helped police track down suspect over student’s 1996 disappearance

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New Zealand Colorful Coffins

Doughnut coffin creates memorable send-off for New Zealander

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