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The US Senate passes a major military aid package for Ukraine, with President Joe Biden vowing new arms supplies in the $61 billion measure will be delivered swiftly to the warzone as Russia makes battlefield gains. IMAGES
An Israeli military helicopter flies over Rafah in southern Gaza, as Palestinians fear an Israeli army ground offensive in the overcrowded city. After Khan Yunis, a town transformed into a field of ruins where the army continues to confront Hamas fighters, Israel is preparing a ground offensive in Rafah, a few kilometres further south, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of civilians who have fled the fighting. IMAGES
Germany soldiers use armoured vehicles to tow cars from a a flooded highway in Erftstadt-Blessem, western Germany. The worst floods to hit Western Europe in living memory have left more than 150 people dead and dozens more missing. IMAGES
Two coronavirus patients board a military helicopter in Metz to be evacuated to Essen, Germany. IMAGES
French Defence Minister Florence Parly pays tribute to the 13 soldiers killed in Mali in a helicopter crash. The collision between two helicopters during an operation against insurgents in the country's restive north is the French military's heaviest single loss in nearly four decades. SOUNDBITE
Two people were killed after a US military helicopter crashed in South Korea on Monday.