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Traditional leaders of Namibia's Herero and Nama leaders gather outside Germany's embassy in Windhoek, protesting against the country's offer of financial reparations. IMAGES
Angela Merkel visits the former German Nazi death camp at Auschwitz for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism and the growth of the far-right. Merkel is only the third German chancellor ever to visit the camp in Poland, with her highly symbolic trip coming ahead of the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945. IMAGES
A woman on trial in one of Germany's worst infanticide cases, involving eight dead babies, confesses to killing several of them but says she can not remember how many. IMAGES of opening of trial
"There are reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel has committed "the crime of genocide against Palestinians," says the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian Territories. Speaking during a press conference in Geneva, Francesca Albanese says "Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent." SOUNDBITE
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin promises that the "United States will not let Ukraine fail" at the opening of a meeting of Ukraine's international supporters in Germany, even as further aid remains stalled in Congress and Kyiv's forces face shortages of munitions. SOUNDBITE
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is welcomed to Warsaw by his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. IMAGES