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Twenty five years after the worst civil maritime disaster in Europe left 852 people from 17 different countries dead or missing, a thousand survivors and their families are seeking compensation from Bureau Veritas, the French registrar of the MS Estonia, a cruise ship that sank off the coast of Finland in 1994. The ferry manufacturer is also summoned to appear before Nanterre's High Court. IMAGES
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
French Environment Minister Elisabeth Borne joins local officials and family members at a ceremony in memorial of victims of Storm Xynthia in 2010. Among the 47 victims along France's Atlantic coast, 29 died in the small commune of La Faute sur Mer in the Vendée. IMAGES
A plaque honoring the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks was unveiled Tuesday by President Hollande. Unfortunately the name of one of the victims, cartoonist George Wolinski, was misspelled.
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES