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Members of the Kosovo police special forces control access to the village of Banjska, where a police officer was killed over the weekend in an ambush. Following the attack, which took place in a predominantly Serb area, the gunmen fled to a monastery, where three of them were killed in a standoff with special forces that ended on Sunday night. Kosovo's Prime Minister said around 30 heavily armed gunmen were surrounded by authorities. IMAGES
Images show emergency workers and members of the public working through the rubble after a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistani police headquarters on Monday. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 150 more, with police officers counted among those dead. The incident has prompted the government to put the country on high alert. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, Paris Police Prefect Didier Lallement and local authorities arrive at the Sports Ministry in Paris for a meeting following the chaos that marred the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, seeking to ensure no repeat of the scenes as Paris prepares for the 2024 Olympics. IMAGES
At least two people were killed and five wounded in a bomb blast that hit a minibus in Kabul on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital. The blast destroyed the vehicle in Dasht-e-Barchi, a Taliban official told AFP, in a suburb dominated by minority Hazara Shiites. An AFP staffer was near the scene when the bomb detonated. "I heard a huge explosion... when I looked around a minibus and a taxi were on fire," he said. IMAGES
Police and emergency officials work near the wreck where a car bomb killed eight people near Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Saturday. Al-Shabaab jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).