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Demonstrators chant "One people, one army" during a rally in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, as battles rage for the sixth day between forces loyal to Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). IMAGES
Locals in Beijing are seen queueing at a clinic at a designated Covid hospital in Beijing's Chaoyang district, as officials warn of a rapid spread in the capital after the country abruptly dropped its zero-tolerance policy. The top health body of the country said on Wednesday that the true scale of Covid-19 infections is now "impossible" to track. IMAGES
Beijing residents queue for Covid tests as China faces its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020. The capital city is sealing off whole neighbourhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected, while eastern Shanghai is recording dozens of daily deaths. IMAGES
President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian athletes who won a medal at the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics games, after receiving them at the Kremlin Palace. IMAGES
Fireworks light up the sky above Beijing's National Stadium as the closing ceremony for the Winter Olympic Games ends. IMAGES
Images of Bird's Nest stadium and Beijing skyline ahead of the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. The 2022 Winter Games had loomed as one of the most politically contentious in memory and with fears about Covid, but most of that receded once the skis and skates were put on. IMAGES