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People pay their respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill. North Korea is marking the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II and the end of Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. IMAGES
Rome residents sing classic Italian song 'Bella Ciao' from their windows and balconies as the city remains under lockdown to contain a coronavirus outbreak which has killed over 7,000 worldwide. IMAGES
An international military flypast over Omaha Beach in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. IMAGES
Thousands flag-waving Jewish nationalists gather at the Western Wall, the terminus of the so-called Jerusalem Day flag march which commemorates the Israeli army's capture of the city's eastern sector in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34VB9F2_EN
French president Emmanuel Macron kicks off three days of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, by presiding over the first ceremony at Plumelec, in the Morbihan region, in memory of the Breton maquisards and the first Free French paratroopers in the SAS, the British special forces, who launched Operation Overlord on the night of 5 to 6 June to open up a new front against Adolf Hitler. IMAGES