This frame grab from a video released by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, taken with a phone by one of the 15 Palestinians medics killed, shows Red Crescent emergency vehicles, their lights and sirens flashing and their logos clearly visible, seconds before they came under a barrage of gunfire from Israeli army soldiers in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, early Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Palestinian Red Crescent Society via AP)
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World in photos

TOPSHOT - Myanmar and Chinese rescuers carry the body of a victim that was trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building 'Sky Villa Condominium development' in Mandalay on April 2, 2025, five days after a major earthquake struck central Myanmar. Days after a shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people, many people in Myanmar are still sleeping outdoors, either unable to return to ruined homes or afraid of further aftershocks. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Americas

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Mexico praises ‘preferential’ US tariffs treatment
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South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol at a hearing for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on February 13, 2025.
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South Korea’s impeached president is removed from office, four months after declaring martial law
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Weather

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Deadly storms give way to rising rivers in flood-ravaged Midwest and Southern US; danger is not over
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Sports

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