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Italy has held a funeral service for 13 unidentified migrants recovered from the wreck of a boat which sank with more than 700 on board. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Family photo of the leaders of nine Mediterranean and southern European countries for a meeting in Malta with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for talks set to focus on migration. The summit comes a day after EU interior ministers finally made headway on new rules for how the bloc handles asylum seekers and irregular migrants. IMAGES
Indigenous peoples from Amazon countries and members of social movements take part in the March of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon in Belem, as the northern Brazilian city hosts a two-day meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to chart an ambitious roadmap to save the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
The South American trade bloc Mercosur begins its second day of Summit in the northern Argentine city of Puerto Iguazu. Mercosur, which brings together Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, is seeking to finalize a free trade agreement with the EU after reaching an agreement in principle in 2019, following more than two decades of tough negotiations. IMAGES
Residents of Crotone, religious leaders and authorities pay their respects in front of the coffins of 65 victims, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died, of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy's southern coast. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).