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People queue with plastic jerrycans at a water filling point in Gaza City as war rages on. The impoverished Palestinian territory, under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for years and besieged since war erupted on October 7, suffers severe shortages of food, water and fuel, and medical supplies are scarce. IMAGES
Burmese queue to enter Thailand at an immigration checkpoint in the border town of Mae Sot, many fleeing the newest round of fighting to test the junta's hold on power. The number of people passing Thai immigration from Myanmar had increased to around 4,000 per day in recent days, an immigration official told AFP, up from the usual number of around 1,900. IMAGES
Thousands of people queue early in the morning around Vatican City to pay their respects to former pope Benedict XVI, whose body will lie in state for three days at St Peter's Basilica before his funeral. IMAGES
Thousands of people are queuing, day and night, along London's River Thames to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II as her coffin lies in state at Westminster Hall. The UK Department of Culture has said that wait times could be as high as 30 hours as the queue continues to grow ahead of the record-breaking monarch's funeral on Monday 19 September. IMAGES
Images show thousands of Ukrainians inside cars, many displaying signs reading “Children” and “Evacuation”, queuing to evacuate their homes on the outskirts of Kyiv. IMAGES
Fuel tankers leave a depot in Grays, Essex, as the British army is set to begin delivering petrol to fuel stations after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced the government to offer visa waivers to foreign truckers to plug the shortfall. IMAGES