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European Council president Charles Michel and EU ambassadors observe a minute of silence in Brussels to pay tribute to the victims of the devastating floods that left nearly 200 dead in western Europe. Heavy rains last week sent torrents of floodwaters sweeping through towns and villages, mostly in Germany and Belgium, in the worst deluge in living memory. IMAGES
In Vantaa, north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, people pay their respects outside the school where a 12-year-old child opened fire the previous day, killing one classmate and seriously injuring two others, before being arrested. IMAGES
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Several French political figures, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former President François Hollande, are taking part in the ceremonies commemorating the January 2015 attacks and paying tribute to the Charlie Hebdo victims and to police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet. IMAGES
The first candles are lit and flowers are laid by the scene of a deadly school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia. Eight students and a security guard died in "the biggest tragedy" to occur in the Serbian school system in recent history, according to a cabinet minister. The police have detained a 13-year-old suspect over the shooting. 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
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