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

  2. 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.

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

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

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

  6. 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)

  7. 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

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

  9. 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.

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

  11. Hamdan Ballal holds his Bafta award outdoors in Palestine

  12. Jordan Bardella speaks at the event.

  13. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  20. 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.

  21. Karoline Leavitt

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

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

  24. 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