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Russia opens criminal case against high-profile journalist critical of Ukraine war
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In this photo provided by Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with journalists following a phone call with US President Donald Trump at the Sirius educational centre for gifted children near Sochi in the Krasnodar region of Russia on May 19.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to reporters about Russia's position on its war with Ukraine after the president's earlier high stakes phone call with US President Donald Trump.
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Members of the judicial police at the scene after an adviser to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot, outside a school in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul White)
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President Ramaphosa’s trip comes just over a week after a group of 59 White South Africans arrived in the US after being granted refugee status.
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People wait for the air train to connect with their flights after an air traffic control outage, bringing flights to a standstill at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 12.
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Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union during a visit to the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on May 21, 2025.
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Foreign diplomats come under Israeli fire on official West Bank visit
US negotiating Israel-Gaza ceasefire with Hamas through American in Doha, source says
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China's Yu Zidi reacts after finishing the women's 200 meters freestyle semifinal at the 2025 National Swimming Championships in Shenzhen, in China's southern Guangdong province on May 19, 2025. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Moroccan man holds his passport in front of his computer displaying a Schengen visa in the capital Rabat, on September 28, 2021. - Paris will sharply reduce the number of visas granted to people from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accusing the former French colonies of not doing enough to allow illegal immigrants to return, a government spokesman said today. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Tareq Al Hilou in Gaza (with Abeer Salman in Jerusalem) managed to follow one family on a quest to find something to drink and eat. Tareq spent a day with a young girl who sources drinking water for her family, including a baby sister, by carrying heavy buckets of water into their half destroyed home. When he came back to film more a few days later, he found out the baby has died of malnutrition.
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Banu Mushtaq, author of 'Heart Lamp' holds the trophy after winning the International Booker Prize, in London, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
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Agriculture Minister Taku Eto speaks to media after his resignation has been accepted at the prime minister's office on May 21, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Caitlin Clark hit a historic mark despite the Indiana Fever losing to the Atlanta Dream.
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Tech

The Epic Games Inc. Fortnite: Battle Royale video game is displayed for a photograph on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 10, 2018. Fortnite, the hit game that's denting the stock prices of video-game makers after signing up 45 million players, didn't really take off until it became free and a free-for-all. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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