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Around 300 women form human chain in Moscow using Valentine's Day to express support for the wife of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and political prisoners. Protesters hold a long white ribbon in temperatures of minus 13 degrees Celsius (8 degrees Fahrenheit). IMAGES
Images of Afghans preparing bouquets of flowers and decorating their cars for Valentine's Day in Kabul. IMAGES
Gisele Pelicot, a French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged, arrives at the court in Avignon with her three children, while her daughter Caroline Darian and her two step-daughters were due to speak on the fifth day of the trial. Photos of them sleeping were also found on the computer of her husband, Dominique Pelicot. IMAGES
A fire breaks out at a tower of flats in London, on the day the Grenfell Tower fire second inquiry report is published. The fire was brought under control within two hours with no reports of injuries. UK's Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 killed 72 people, and today's new report markes the end of its long-running inquiry. IMAGES
Smoke rises and gunshot are heard in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, during a large-scale Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad confirmed the death of Muhammad Jabber, also known as Abu Shujaa, its commander in the camp. Israel began coordinated raids in the northern West Bank cities of Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem early on Wednesday, in what the military has called a "counter-terrorism" operation. IMAGES