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A vigil is held in London's Kensington Gardens, near the Lebanese embassy, in honour of the victims of the Beirut blast. A cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port has sowed devastation across entire city neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. IMAGES
People gather in the street at the site of explosion in Al-Musharrafiya area, in Beirut's southern suburbs. An Israeli drone struck a Hamas office killing four people, Lebanese state media said. IMAGES
Relatives of the victims Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider arrive at the courtroom where the closing arguments are being held in the trial of Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, on trial before the Paris Special Assize Court for complicity in the murder of the police couple in the name of the Islamic State at their home in Magnanville, near Paris, on 13 June 2016. IMAGES
Images filmed from the edge of Azerbaijani territory show Armenian ambulances heading into Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh to help victims of a massive explosion at a fuel depot in the city of Stepanakert, which killed 20 people and injured more than 200. IMAGES
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
Lebanese protesters march in the capital Beirut to mark three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the city. IMAGES
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