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Ukrainians deploy a giant national flag in a Kyiv stadium to mark "Unity Day" in the face of a feared invasion by Russia. Russia says military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea have ended and that soldiers are returning to their garrisons, a day after it announced a first troop pullback from Ukraine's borders. IMAGES
A flag-raising ceremony takes place in Hong Kong to mark China's National Day. IMAGES
Bosnian Serbs parade in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, to mark the Day of Republika Srpska, their self-proclaimed "national day". The controversial occasion was declared to be "discriminatory" towards other communities by local judiciary in 2015. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik attends the parade. IMAGES
Israeli far-right supporters take part in the annual flag-waving march as they mark Jerusalem Day, commemorating the capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day war. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI33FG3RH_EN
Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Moscow's Red Square to mark the country's Day of People's Unity. The national holiday marks the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces from Moscow in 1612. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris marking the National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and its Abolition. IMAGES