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Added on the 03/07/2022 14:09:42 - Copyright : AFP EN
Members and allies of the LGBTQ community take part in a pride march in London, with rainbow flags, hula hoops and headdresses on full display. It is the 50th anniversary of the city's first Pride parade, marking half a century of progress in the fight for equality and tolerance but with warnings that more still needs to be done. IMAGES
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
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
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES