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Around 80 graves are daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, hours ahead of nationwide marches called to denounce a surge in anti-Semitic vandalism and hate speech. IMAGES / COMPLETES VID1306138_EN
French President Emmanuel Macron signs the guestbook of the Gisozi Genocide Memorial in Kigali, before visiting the graves where the remains of more than 250,000 victims of the 1994 massacres are buried. IMAGES
French Interior minister Christophe Castaner condemns an "act of hatred" that "desecrates all the Republic" after more than 100 graves were found covered with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg in eastern France on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner arrives at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen where dozens of Jewish graves were vandalised. He was accompanied by the former President of the Constitutional Council, Jean-Louis Debré and the Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, Harold Abraham Weill. IMAGES
Jerusalem has a unique problem - they are running out of room to bury the recently deceased. In a bid to solve the city’s desperate lack of burial sites, Jerusalem is turning back the clock and building underground cemeteries for the first time in 1,600 years. The completed structure will hold 22,000 graves and will be able to provide burial space for about 10 years, taking up 300,000 cubic metres.
The coffin of former European Commission President Jacques Delors arrives in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, during a national tribute ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
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