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Landing aborted as 747 cargo plane's engine scrapes runway
Jet made new approach at Luxembourg airport
A Cargolux jet on the runway. AP Photo
Hibernating brown bears have provided an insight into thrombosis prevention during extended immobilisation. PA
Hibernating bears offer clues to preventing thrombosis in humans

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Christmas lights at the Champs-Elysees in Paris last November. Europe did not turn off its lights, despite scarcer gas supplies. AP
Mild weather helped Europe survive winter energy crisis

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Zante, a cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain, travels through the Bosphorus in Istanbul in November.  Reuters
Poland and Hungary ban Ukraine food to protect local farms

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video conference in Moscow on April 14, 2023. AFP
Putin signs new Russian law allowing electronic draft call-up

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A sea of dancers set the record in Guwahati. Reuters
India sets world record for largest dance at single venue
Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Indonesia marks Ramadan
Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Indonesia marks Ramadan
Residents in Pope Francis’s hometown pray
Residents in Pope Francis’s hometown pray
The bodies of dead migrants are covered with "space blankets" in the parking lot of a Mexican immigration detention in Juarez on Monday, March 27, 2023.  A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U. S.  border left more than three dozen migrants dead.  It was one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.  (Omar Ornelas  / The El Paso Times via AP)
Fire at Mexico migrant centre leaves 39 dead
This screen grab obtained from a handout surveillance video released by Mexico's National Institute of Migration shows guards leaving as flames engulf an immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, on March 27, 2023.  - Mexico's president vowed Wednesday there would be "no impunity" for those found responsible for the death by fire of 38 migrants at a detention center.  "We will not hide anything and there will be no impunity," Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily press briefing after the disaster at a detention center near the border late Monday.  (Photo by Handout  /  National Institute of Migration  /  AFP)  /  RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO  /  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MIGRATION" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
New CCTV footage shows guards walking away during fire that killed 38 migrants in Mexico
A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, estimates of casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war make an incomplete picture.  AP Photo
Beyond the Headlines: Uncertainty after a year of war in Ukraine
The ruling APC party urged the opposition to accept defeat and not cause trouble. AP
Nigeria election - in pictures
Workers sort cigarette butts at the Code Effort recycling factory near the Indian capital New Delhi. All photos: Taniya Dutta for The National
Recycling cigarette butts in India - in pictures
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