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A night vigil is held at a ceremony in Kigali paying tribute to victims 30 years after the Rwandan genocide. The 100-day massacre at the hands of Hutu extremists started on April 7 in 1994 and claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus. IMAGES
Armenian Americans rally in Los Angeles on the 106th anniversary of the killings of Armenians by Ottoman troops. Earlier on Saturday, Joe Biden became the first US president to recognize the 1915 killings as genocide. It's a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as Biden defied decades of pressure by Turkey. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says that protesters against Israel's war in Gaza who demonstrated outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago "have a point." "A lot of innocent people are being killed, on both sides," Biden says in his farewell speech to the convention. SOUNDBITE
President Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris to defeat “loser” Donald Trump in the November election, during his emotional farewell speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday. The 81-year-old, who quit the White House race in July, urged Americans to "put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon," referring to one of Harris's previous roles. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden wins a huge ovation as he take to the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, after handing over to Kamala Harris as the party's presidential nominee. IMAGES