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A senior general says five villagers were killed by soldiers during an interrogation in Myanmar's northern Shan State, in a rare admission by Myanmar's still-powerful military. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Staff at the United Nations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, observe a minute's silence for the more than 100 colleagues killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
The United Nations' flag is lowered to half-mast at the UN Bangkok office which hosts 21 UN agencies to commemorate its staff who have been killed and wounded in strikes in Gaza. UNRWA announced on Friday that more than 100 of its employees had died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. Israel has been bombing targets across the Gaza Strip since Hamas fighters carried out an unprecedented deadly attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives at a police station in Nîmes to meet police officials, following the deaths of a 10-year-old child and an 18-year-old teenager, in suspected drugs-related violence. IMAGES
People attend the burial of three of the four children killed by a 25-year-old man who burst into a preschool in southern Brazil. The attacker, who jumped a wall to get inside, also wounded four other children, who are now hospitalised. IMAGES
Residents of Blumenau in southern Brazil light candles and pray outside the Good Shepherd Center, a private preschool, to mourn the four children who were killed with a hatchet-like weapon by a 25-year-old man. The attacker also wounded four other children, before turning himself into the police. IMAGES