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Pope Francis visited Tzitzernakaberd, the Geonocide Memorial in the Armenian capital Saturday. During the visit the Pontiff joined President Serzh Sarksyan and leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church in a prayer service and met the descendants of Armenian orphans.
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Several French political figures, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former President François Hollande, are taking part in the ceremonies commemorating the January 2015 attacks and paying tribute to the Charlie Hebdo victims and to police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet. IMAGES
Images showing people lighting candles at a makeshift memorial in front of the main building of Charles University, Prague, after a 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25, in the Czech Republic's worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was "eliminated". IMAGES
Members of the French football team observe a minute's silence as they pay tribute to the 130 people killed by jihadist gunmen in the November 2015 Paris attacks. 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).