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Images of Grenfell Tower in London as the city marks five years since Britain's worse residential fire since World War II. A total of 72 people were killed when a fire that started in a faulty freezer ripped through the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in west London on June 14, 2017. IMAGES
Throngs of people attend the New York Gay Pride march, which is expected to draw three million rainbow flag-waving supporters, 50 years after the Stonewall riots that galvanized the modern gay rights movement. IMAGES
The world's oldest automated teller machine, or ATM, was coated in gold to celebrate 50 years since its introduction in London on Tuesday. Red carpet and stanchions were also placed in front of the machine. Before the introduction of the first ATM on June 27, 1967, outside a Barclay's Bank depository in Enfield, north London, people were forced to wait in line at the bank to withdraw cash. The ATM was surely a major technological advancement at the time and greatly improved economic conditions.
Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
NATO foreign ministers meet for the NATO-Ukraine Council foreign ministers' session. One of the issues on the agenda is military aid to Kyiv. It comes on the 75th anniversary of the alliance, menaced by an aggressive Russia and the spectre of Donald Trump's return to power. IMAGES
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