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  1. Samit Shegwara is wearing a cap and white patterned shirt and he is smiling. He is standing against a white wall.

  2. Destroyed infrastructure at Hama airbase, Syria, after it was targeted by Israeli air strikes (3 April 2025)

  3. A Palestinian woman stands at a bakery that has stopped operating due to a lack of flour and fuel, in Gaza City (1 April 2025)

  4. Paramedic Munther Abed sits in front of a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance in Gaza

  5. Palestinians inspect a building damaged in an Israeli air strike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (2 April 2025)

  6. James, who has light grey hair and a grey beard, sits in front of a waterfall. He is smiling slightly at the camera and wears a black Berghaus rain coat and a black backpack.

  7. Palestinian children stand in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt.

  8. A black and white photo of PC Trevor Lock, who grins broadly and flicks his trouser braces out at the camera. He wears a striped tie and blazer.

  9. Image shows a damaged building in southern Beirut after an Israeli strike in the early hours of the morning

  10. File photo showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, in Jerusalem (27 March 2025)

  11. A woman cries and is comforted by another mourner, in Khan Younis on 31 March 2025

  12. A displaced Palestinian woman carries a young child on her shoulders as they flee the Rafah area on foot, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (31 March 2025)

  13. Palestinian Red Crescent Society employees embrace as the bodies of their colleagues are brought to a medical facility in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Photo: 30 March 2025

  14. Image supplied by Dr Perlmutter shows medics operating on a wounded Palestinian in Gaza

  15. Iranian women praying at the Shrine of Panj Tan, in Tehran. The Shrine has four tall towers that are covered in a beautiful and intricate pattern that is blue and white.

  16. A Palestinian woman sits among wreckage in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Photo: March 2025

  17. Hamdan Ballal holds his Bafta award outdoors in Palestine

  18. Jordan Bardella speaks at the event.

  19. Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs following Israeli strike after issuing an evacuation warning for the area, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, March 28, 2025.

  20. A Sindbad submarine (not the vessel lost) in Hurghada on Thursday.

  21. A landscape shot of the ocean against a blue sky with a number of vessels seen in the water.

  22. Another Sindbad submarine - not the one involved in the sinking - at harbour in Hurghada

  23. Owen Haggerty smiles into the camera while dressed in his sailor's uniform. HMS Raleigh is written on his hat.

  24. Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal poses in a brown jacket and grey scarf beside a newspaper kiosk in Paris in 2015.