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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
On the final leg of a state visit to Kenya, Queen Camilla visits the Situation Room, which provides services for survivors of sexual and gender based violence. She is shown survivor kits that provide personal and hygiene items and hears about the kinds of therapy provided to victims. Before leaving, Camilla is presented with a Kanga (a Swahili shawl). IMAGES
Moroccans wait outside a blood transfusion centre in Marrakesh to donate blood for earthquake victims. The Red Cross appealed for more than $100 million in aid to meet the "most pressing needs", including water, shelter, health and sanitation services. IMAGES
Moroccans give blood at a donation bank in Marrakesh for earthquake victims. IMAGES SOUNDBITE
Backpacks representing victims of school attacks are displayed outside the National Congress in Brasilia to demand approval of Bill 2630, which seeks to regulate social media activity. The government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recently announced a series of restrictions on social media in a bid to curb the "epidemic" of school attacks. In April, four children between four and seven years old were killed in a preschool in Blumenau, a city in southern Santa Catarina state, when a man carrying a hatchet stormed the facility. IMAGES
Images of near-deserted streets and closed shops in the Sudanese capital as the violence slowed down life in Khartoum amid deadly battles between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals. IMAGES
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