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Russian president Vladimir Putin attends memorial ceremony for victims of the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) by Nazi Germany during WWII. The siege lasted 872 days between 8 September 1941 and 27 January 1944, leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties. IMAGES
A memorial ceremony is held for the victims of the sinking the MS Estonia 25 years ago in the Baltic Sea, which left 852 people dead. The ceremony takes place in the presence of the Crown Princess and Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, together with his wife Brigitte Macron, his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier accompanied by his wife Elke Büdenbender, lays a wreath at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial during his state visit to Germany. IMAGES
Images showing people lighting candles at a makeshift memorial in front of the main building of Charles University, Prague, after a 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25, in the Czech Republic's worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was "eliminated". IMAGES
Pictures of festival-goers killed by Hamas on October 7 are displayed at the site of the Supernova music festival, near Re'im in the south of Israel, where according to an Israeli count 270 people were killed at the scene by Hamas. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.