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

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

  3. White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is seated at a meeting with US ambassadors.

  4. Amit Jagjit Prasad Gupta (left) seen wearing a light orange t-shirt with his arm around his father JP Gupta, who is wearing a blue shirt. His mother stands next to them on the right. There is an apartment building in the background.

  5. Karoline Leavitt

  6. A photo illustration made by BBC. It features messages from the leaked Signal chat and a picture of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

  7. Wide angle photograph of hundreds of people walking through a street in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza as part of an anti-Hamas protest

  8. Pete Hegseth and JD Vance are pictured with a screenshot of messages by Waltz and Vance overlaid. The message from Vance says "Excellent" and from Waltz it's three emojis - fist bumb, USA flag and a fire

  9. Hamdan Ballal walking out of a metal gate onto a dusty street

  10. A composite image of US President Donald Trump and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on 25 March 2025

  11. Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe at the hearing on Capitol Hill

  12. A Ukrainian soldier holds a large anti-aircraft gun on board a boat in the Black Sea

  13. Basel Adra looks at a grey car with its window smashed

  14. Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, winners of the Best Documentary Feature Film for "No Other Land", attend the 97th Annual Oscars Governors Ball at Ovation Hollywood Complex on March 2, 2025

  15. Mike Waltz is pictured in the foreground, during a meeting in the Oval Office.

  16. Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth and JD Vance listen as Donald Trump speaks in a meeting in the Oval office

  17. A fire on the outside staircase of Nasser Hospital throws up smoke as three people watch from higher steps

  18. Badar Khan Suri, a scholar of conflict studies, was arrested on 17 March over terror charges. He is seen wearing a maroon jacked over a white shirt and spectacles, with trees in the background.

  19. Woman holding a baby in the middle of ruins following an attack, with others comforting each other or looking through the rubble

  20. Smoke billows upwards in front of a blue sky and grey buildings.

  21. Smoke billows from the site of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. Photo: 22 March 2025

  22. Palestinians walking along a path covered in piles of rubbish.

  23. Four people in personal protective clothing carry a body bag through a forest and up a hill