• A lone bugler playing The Last Post on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Australians and New Zealanders held dawn Anzac Day vigils from the isolation of their own driveways on April 25 to honour their armed forces, as parades were cancelled and ceremonies closed to the public due to coronavirus shutdowns. AFP / Sydney Opera House
    A lone bugler playing The Last Post on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Australians and New Zealanders held dawn Anzac Day vigils from the isolation of their own driveways on April 25 to honour their armed forces, as parades were cancelled and ceremonies closed to the public due to coronavirus shutdowns. AFP / Sydney Opera House
  • Italian President Sergio Mattarella arriving to place a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Altare della Patria - Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, as part of a commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day, which marks the fall of Nazi occupation in 1945. AFP
    Italian President Sergio Mattarella arriving to place a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Altare della Patria - Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome, as part of a commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day, which marks the fall of Nazi occupation in 1945. AFP
  • A Palestinian child rides a bicycle along a street decorated with lit up umbrellas in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the second night of Ramadan early on April 25, 2020. AFP
    A Palestinian child rides a bicycle along a street decorated with lit up umbrellas in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the second night of Ramadan early on April 25, 2020. AFP
  • Pet carer Mary Carmen Arreguin, 41, gestures to dogs behind a fence at San Gregorio animal shelter which is promoting pet adoptions as a way of making quarantine more bearable, while the spread of coronaviruscontinues, in El Ajusco, on the southern outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico April 24, 2020. Reuters
    Pet carer Mary Carmen Arreguin, 41, gestures to dogs behind a fence at San Gregorio animal shelter which is promoting pet adoptions as a way of making quarantine more bearable, while the spread of coronaviruscontinues, in El Ajusco, on the southern outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico April 24, 2020. Reuters
  • Palestinian Walid al-Hattab prepares soup for the poor during Ramadan in Gaza City on April 24, 2020. AFP
    Palestinian Walid al-Hattab prepares soup for the poor during Ramadan in Gaza City on April 24, 2020. AFP
  • Lest We Forget is written in the sky with smoke as two people box at the Breakfast Point Village Green at dawn on Anzac Day in Sydney, Australia, 25 April 2020. EPA
    Lest We Forget is written in the sky with smoke as two people box at the Breakfast Point Village Green at dawn on Anzac Day in Sydney, Australia, 25 April 2020. EPA
  • Inmates of the Villa Devoto prison riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina 24 April 2020. A group of prisoners rioted to demand that they be allowed access to the house arrest regime during the Covid-19 pandemic. EPA
    Inmates of the Villa Devoto prison riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina 24 April 2020. A group of prisoners rioted to demand that they be allowed access to the house arrest regime during the Covid-19 pandemic. EPA
  • William McMaugh poses after a Anzac Day Dawn Service outside North Bondi RSL Club at Bondi Beach on April 25, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images
    William McMaugh poses after a Anzac Day Dawn Service outside North Bondi RSL Club at Bondi Beach on April 25, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images
  • In this image taken with a fisheye lens, cars line up for food at the Utah Food Bank's mobile food pantry at the Maverik Center, Friday, April 24, 2020, in West Valley City, Utah.AP Photo
    In this image taken with a fisheye lens, cars line up for food at the Utah Food Bank's mobile food pantry at the Maverik Center, Friday, April 24, 2020, in West Valley City, Utah.AP Photo
  • A man fires a vintage canon to signal the breaking of fast shortly after sunset in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, April 24, 2020. AP Photo
    A man fires a vintage canon to signal the breaking of fast shortly after sunset in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, April 24, 2020. AP Photo

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