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Mourners arrive at church to attend the funeral service for Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda. A hero of the struggle against white-minority rule, Kaunda, popularly known by his initials of KK, died at the age of 97 on 17 June 2021 at a military hospital where he had been admitted with pneumonia. He was president of Zambia for 27 years, taking the helm after the country gained independence in October 1964. Mourners include former Zambian president Rupiah Banda and former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. IMAGES
Soldiers bear the coffin of former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda at a memotial ceremony in a stadium of the capital Lusaka. A hero of the struggle against white rule in southern Africa, Kaunda died on June 17 at a military hospital where he had been admitted with pneumonia. IMAGES
The coffin of Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda arrives at Lusaka's National Heroes Stadium for a state memorial, two weeks after he died aged 97 at a military hospital where he had been admitted days earlier with pneumonia. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that his military has deployed Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to counter Russia's recent large-scale drone and missile attacks. "We destroyed already some missiles and drones using the F-16," Zelensky says at a press conference in Kyiv, declining to give more details. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron is transported along avenue Foch in the "command car" during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris before greeting members of his government and the army. IMAGES
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