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Iran asked arch-enemy the United States for assistance after a helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi, the US State Department says, without providing further details. SOUNDBITE
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame says the international community had "failed" his country during the 1994 genocide, as he paid tribute to victims of the massacres, 30 years after the vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart his country. SOUNDBITE
Passersby gather at the site of an Iranian fighter jet crash in a residential area of the northwestern city of Tabriz. The jet smashed into a school, killing two crew members and a passerby, according to authorities. IMAGES
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking via video link to the One Planet Summit in Paris, says the international community "has a responsibility to act" to save the planet from the damage being done by rising sea levels and a loss of biodiversity. He says Canada will donate 55m dollars to the United Nations' "land degradation neutrality fund" to support "sustainable projects in low and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
Members of Sweden's government and royal family attend a memorial service for victims of the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran after being hit by an Iranian missile. The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737, which had been bound for Kiev, slammed into a field shortly after taking off from Tehran last Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, including 17 Swedish residents. IMAGES of the beginning of the service
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