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The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
People scramble to douse a fire and clear rubble at Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital after it was hit in a rare daytime Russian barrage on cities across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there were an unknown number of people trapped under the rubble of the hospital and it was not immediately clear how many had been killed. IMAGES
The United States deplores the shelling on a UN shelter in Gaza that killed nine people, and calls again for civilians to be protected in the bloody war with Israel, a State Department spokesman says. "We deplore today's attack on the UN's Khan Yunis training center," spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron leave a hospital in Grenoble where they visited the victims of a knife attack that injured six people in Annecy, including four young children. IMAGES
France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier (LR), appointed on Thursday by Emmanuel Macron, is making his first field visit to the SAMU at Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.