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Two environmental activists throw soup at the armoured glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre museum in Paris, justifying their action by their desire to promote "the right to healthy and sustainable food." 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
Visitors queue to enter the British Museum in London, after a man was stabbed on Tuesday morning on the street bordering the southern perimeter of the world famous site, leading to its evacuation. The incident occurred at around 10am local time, according to London's Metropolitan Police, who arrested a man in connection to the stabbing. It is not being treated as terror-related. IMAGES
Lebanese protesters march in the capital Beirut to mark three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the city. IMAGES
Images of the site of the August 4, 2020 blast at the Beirut port as Lebanon's marks three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the Lebanese capital. Still nobody has been held to account as political and legal pressures suspend the investigation. IMAGES
Eight more grain silos collapse at Beirut's port after succumbing to damage from the devastating 2020 explosion -- the third major collapse in a month. A cloud of dust rose over the port after the collapse, which brought down the last of the northern block of silos that was more heavily damaged in the blast, and where a fire had been burning since July. IMAGES TO COMPLETE: VIDI32GX93J_EN
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