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Added on the 15/03/2021 13:53:05 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The Colosseum turns yellow and blue in sign of solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion, as fears mount about Kyiv's ability to fend off an emboldened Russia. IMAGES
People hold banners and wreaths and chant slogans in a protest to mark the ten-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. More than 1,130 people died in the catastrophe, spotlighting the global fashion industry's reliance on developing world labour working in dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. IMAGES
A large French flag flies above the first level of the Eiffel Tower as part of the annual 8 May commemorations. This year marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe but ceremonies have had to be scaled back and held without the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. IMAGES
A decade after Sierra Leone's civil war, former persecutors and their victims are learning to live together. To escape the fighting, a third of the population had fled to Freetown. Today, more than one million people live there, most of them in slums, where a cholera epidemic is claiming more victims every day.
Taliban government authorities attend a military parade at the site of the former US military base in Bagram to mark the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan. IMAGES