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Twenty five years after the worst civil maritime disaster in Europe left 852 people from 17 different countries dead or missing, a thousand survivors and their families are seeking compensation from Bureau Veritas, the French registrar of the MS Estonia, a cruise ship that sank off the coast of Finland in 1994. The ferry manufacturer is also summoned to appear before Nanterre's High Court. IMAGES
Russian president Vladimir Putin attends memorial ceremony for victims of the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) by Nazi Germany during WWII. The siege lasted 872 days between 8 September 1941 and 27 January 1944, leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties. IMAGES
French Environment Minister Elisabeth Borne joins local officials and family members at a ceremony in memorial of victims of Storm Xynthia in 2010. Among the 47 victims along France's Atlantic coast, 29 died in the small commune of La Faute sur Mer in the Vendée. IMAGES
Thirty years after the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, sirens sound at 9:53 local time (12:53 GMT) - time when the attack took place - in memory of the 85 victims. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, together with his wife Brigitte Macron, his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier accompanied by his wife Elke Büdenbender, lays a wreath at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial during his state visit to Germany. IMAGES
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