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  1. Police with guns stand guard over a container filled with drug packages as two people in masks and hazard clothes tip more drugs inside

  2. Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil talks to the press during the press briefing organized by Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up a new encampment at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus on Friday evening, in New York City, United States on June 01, 2024.

    • BBC World Service

  4. Vladimir Putin sitting at a wooden table, looking off camera, smiling slightly and sitting on a gold chair.

  5. A worker wearing an USAID vest is seen walking near a building

  6. Dolphins are seen swimming next to a domed capsule with a rib motorboat floating next to it and a carrier boat in the background, on a deep blue sea with blue sky in the background, shortly after the astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida, on 18 March

  7. A space capsule plunging into water as the astronauts descended over the Atalantic off the coast of Florida against a blue sky on 18 March

  8. Becky Burke smiles as she hugs Bo Jangles. She has long plaited brown hair and is wearing glasses. A bottle of sparkling wine - possibly champagne - can be seen on a table behind them.

  9. A woman is holding a tray of cups at a drive through passing them to a man in a car

  10. Donald Trump shakes hands with US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at the president's inauguration in January.

  11. President Donald Trump and Taoiseach Micheal Martin sitting in the Oval Office. President Trump has his arms open in a red tie and suit, while Micheal Martin has his hands clasped together

  12. Deportees inside a prison in El Salvador

  13. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard the ISS smiling as they pose in the orbiting lab. Butch is looking out from within a white circular hatch, while Suni is lying just outside it.

  14. Ebrahim Rasool, wearing a suit and a scarf in South African colours, speaking in 2013.

  15. Yemenis inspect rubble. Men wearing mostly brown stand among the concretes ruins

  16. US President Donald Trump poses for a photo at the Kennedy Center

  17. Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, speaks during a panel discussion about the Devaluing of American Citizenship during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 27, 2021 in Orlando, Florida.

  18. Actor Gene Hackman in a suit

  19. An aerial view of the damage to the Pulse nightclub in North Macedonia. It is a rectangular building resembling a former warehouse, with whitewashed walls. The roof has been badly bunt and has several large holes that reveal the skeleton of the building. The building is outlined with a thick red line to distinguish it from nearby buildings. The BBC Verify logo is over the top.

  20. Deportees inside a prison in El Salvador

  21. Prince Harry wearing a blue suit jacket and white shirt with no tie. There's a blue background behind him and he's looking off into the distance.

  22. A building is in ruins after a tornado strike, its roof is ripped off and insulation is strewn about.

  23. The Chicago flows through the city, under a bridge and passes large skyscrapers. The river is green after crews used a vegetable based dye in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

  24. Harvard University