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The chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU), Armin Laschet, left, and the chairman of the German Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soeder, right (Michael Kappeler/AP)

Governor of Bavaria favoured to be centre-right candidate in Germany’s election

April 16, 2021

St Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow’s Red Square (Ian Nicholson/PA)

Russia orders 10 US diplomats out of country in retaliatory move

April 16, 2021

Books on a shelf (Ryan Phillips/PA)

Walter Kaufmann, author who survived Holocaust, dies aged 97

April 16, 2021

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel (Christophe Ena/AP)

Gustavo Dudamel named musical director at Paris Opera

April 16, 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda (Matt Crossick/PA)

Curtain raiser announced for 2021’s Tribeca Film Festival

April 16, 2021

Police officers wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus guard an entrance of the prison colony IK-2, where Alexei Navalny was detained (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Alexei Navalny says he is being threatened with force-feeding

April 16, 2021

An Olympic torch relay runner, centre left, carries the torch on the second day of the Osaka leg in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan (Hiro Komae/AP)

Japan raises coronavirus alert level near Tokyo months ahead of Olympics

April 16, 2021

Palestinian worshipers pray during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at the al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Muslims pray at sacred Jerusalem site on first Friday of Ramadan

April 16, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee palace (Lewis Joly/Associated Press)

Ukraine’s president visits Paris amid Russian troops deployment near border

April 16, 2021

Police and fire teams arrive at the scene outside a FedEx facility in Indianapolis (Mykal McEldowney/AP)

Gunman kills eight in shooting spree at Indianapolis FedEx site

April 16, 2021

Medical personnel wearing protective equipment work in the intensive care ward for Covid-19 patients at the SRH Waldklinikum hospital in Gera, Germany (Bodo Schackow/AP)

Angela Merkel urges German politicians to pass ’emergency brake’ Covid bill

April 16, 2021