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A large French flag flies above the first level of the Eiffel Tower as part of the annual 8 May commemorations. This year marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe but ceremonies have had to be scaled back and held without the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. IMAGES
Ridding the world of the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 190,000 people worldwide, will require the biggest public health effort ever seen, Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres says. SOUNDBITE
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to the fifth World Holocaust Forum and takes his seat amongst world leaders gathering to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the World War II death camp where the Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. IMAGES
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin arrive separately for lunch at the Élysée Palace. They join dozens of other foreign leaders who returned by coach from the Arc de Triomphe, where they had been attending the centenary ceremony for the Armistice on 11 November 1918.
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to attend a ceremony the Great War alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and more than 60 heads of state and government. IMAGES
World leaders, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, leave the Elysee Palace for the ceremony commemorating 100 years since the end of World War 1 at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. IMAGES
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