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Around 20 women gather in Kabul to mark International Women's Day. "Use the international stages, this is the second March 8th under the Taliban governance," said one demonstrator, reading aloud a statement. Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the "most repressive country in the world" for women's rights, the United Nations said Wednesday, with authorities effectively trapping them in their homes. IMAGES
Rohingya refugees hold "Genocide Remembrance Day" rallies across the huge network of squalid camps in Bangladesh where they live in dire conditions, marking five years since fleeing from a brutal military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border from mostly Buddhist Myanmar from the onslaught, which is now the subject of a landmark genocide case at the UN's top court. Today there are nearly a million Rohingya, half of them under 18, in rickety huts in a network of camps in southeastern Bangladesh where the mud lanes regularly become rivers of sewage during monsoon rains. IMAGES
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge mark World Mental Health Day at an event hosted by Mind, a mental health charity. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
French President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris to commemorate the Victory of 8 May 1945 -- the date of the German surrender in WWII. IMAGES
Pedestrians in Jerusalem come to a standstill in honour of the victims of the Holocaust as sirens blare on Holocaust Remembrance Day. 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).