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Planes fly over Lusaka's National Heroes Stadium and cannons fire in a salute to Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda during a state memorial service, two weeks after he died aged 97 at a military hospital where he had been admitted days earlier with pneumonia. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem after touring Israel's Iron Beam defence system at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Biden started today his first tour of the Middle East since entering the White House last year. 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
Mourners arrive at church to attend the funeral service for Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda. A hero of the struggle against white-minority rule, Kaunda, popularly known by his initials of KK, died at the age of 97 on 17 June 2021 at a military hospital where he had been admitted with pneumonia. He was president of Zambia for 27 years, taking the helm after the country gained independence in October 1964. Mourners include former Zambian president Rupiah Banda and former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. IMAGES
The coffin of Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda arrives at Lusaka's National Heroes Stadium for a state memorial, two weeks after he died aged 97 at a military hospital where he had been admitted days earlier with pneumonia. IMAGES
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