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France's new Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera calls for and end "to the chapter of personal attacks" amid growing controversy over the enrolment of her children in private schools. Speaking to the media while visiting the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Oudea-Castera added that she "believes in public schools". SOUNDBITE
Migrants arriving in the US are seen from the Mexican side of the border through a barbed wire fence as they wait for the expiration of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era border restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims. IMAGES
"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic," says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
US basketball star Brittney Griner asks a Russian court not to "end my life" as prosecutors requested she be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug smuggling charges. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calls for the world to pull together and says "2022 must be the year we end the pandemic." SOUNDBITE