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Mothers of some of Mexico's nearly 100,000 missing people gather in Mexico City to protest on Mother's Day. IMAGES
Explosions shake Gaza City and smoke rises as Israeli troops and Hamas militants engaged in battles in Gaza, where the dire humanitarian crisis spiralled. IMAGES
The number of new coronavirus cases for the past week has "exceeded 160,000 on every single day," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says at a virtual briefing, while reiterating that taking a "comprehensive approach" is the best way to rein in the virus. SOUNDBITE of a WHO virtual press conference
"We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," warns top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci as he testifies before the Senate. SOUNDBITE
Around 100 people crowd the doors of a supermarket entrance in Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb, the day after President Emmanuel Macron announced tighter travel restrictions for the population. IMAGES
Some 200,000 Rohingya rally in the Bangladesh Kutupalong refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. IMAGES