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  1. File image of Friedrich Merz

  2. Hakeem Jeffries on the left, Mike Johnson on the right.

  3. US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea

  4. Law enforcement sieve through the rubble outside the fertility clinic gathering evidence

  5. Protesters wearing Arabic scarfs at Columbia. One holds a sign calling for free speech for Columbia students

  6. Handout photo from the Supreme Leader's Office showing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking during a marking the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran (4 June 2025)

  7. An image from footage of Ukraine's major drone attack on 1 June

  8. US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 30 May 2025.

  9. Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner

  10. Trump and Merz

  11. A photo of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, alongside a picture of the BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins.

  12. The sky is orange due to Canada's wildfires.

  13. An aerial view of the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan

  14. Reverend Randy Spaulding of Boulder Mennonite Church, right, hugs Rabbi Ruth Gelfarb of Congregation Har HaShem at the Boulder county courthouse on Pearl Street in Boulder

  15. Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, sits outside his camera shop in San Francisco, November 9, 1977.

  16. A stock style image of a jail cell and bars

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  18. Senator Ernst is talking to her constituents in a town hall.

  19. File image of Jonathan Joss

  20. Split screen of yellow skies on the left and hazy skies on the right over a city

  21. A mug shot of Mr Soliman wearing a white shirt with bandage on his ear

  22. A dark mass of murky water erupts into the sky from the Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone Park.

  23. Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs pictured cooking in a kitchen some years ago. She has long grey hair and a fringe and is wearing glasses and a black and white patterned top. She is smiling broadly and is holding a large wooden spoon beside a pot on a stove.

  24. A police officer stands in front of a yellow police tape which says "do not cross". We can see police and ambulance vehicles in front of her. The officer is facing away from the camera