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Relatives of victims and survivors mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) that left 85 people dead with a day of mourning, and demand justice for this attack that remains unpunished. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is paying tribute to the heroism of members of the World War II Resistance based at a remote Alpine plateau who were attacked by the Nazi army and French collaborationist forces. Members of the resistance used the Vercors Plateau as a refuge after the occupation of France from 1940, receiving airdrops from the Allies and even occasional visits by British agents with the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE) unit. With 2024 marking 80 years since the penultimate year of World War II, Macron is making a series of high-profile commemorations to remember resistance heroes but also to note the role played by native French collaborationist militia (milice) in the German occupation. IMAGES
US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tells reporters that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq group was behind a drone attack that killed three American soldiers at a base in Jordan. SOUNDBITE
The Pentagon says a US warplane kills multiple Iranian-backed militiamen in Iraq after they fired a short-range ballistic missile at American and allied personnel in the country. "This self-defense strike resulted in some hostile fatalities," Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Pupils, teachers and parents are paying tribute to Samuel Paty, the history and geography teacher murdered in an Islamist attack three years ago today in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris. The commemoration comes as another teacher was killed by a radicalised former pupil on Friday in northern city of Arras. IMAGES
People protest to demand justice for 43 Mexican students at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College who disappeared in the southwest state of Guerrero in September 2014. The students went missing as they were traveling by bus to participate in demonstrations in Mexico City. Investigators said that they were detained by corrupt police and handed over to a drug cartel, though exactly what happened to them is unclear. In July, a commission created in 2014 under an agreement between Mexico and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the atrocity said that the state was responsible for the concealment of vital information, making it impossible to continue its work. IMAGES
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