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Hundreds of women gather in Central Jakarta to hold a rally marking International Women's Day. IMAGES
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
Protesters gather in Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women's Day as the country comes to grips with the latest case of a violent attack against a woman. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will establish a parliamentary committee to tackle violence against women after a high-profile incident outraged the country at the weekend. The latest case of violence to grab national attention was a video on social media purportedly showing a man beating his ex-wife in front of their five-year-old child on a street in the Black Sea province of Samsun. IMAGES
Gisele Pelicot, a French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged, arrives at the court in Avignon with her three children, while her daughter Caroline Darian and her two step-daughters were due to speak on the fifth day of the trial. Photos of them sleeping were also found on the computer of her husband, Dominique Pelicot. IMAGES
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
An international military flypast over Omaha Beach in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. IMAGES
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