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Week in pictures: 25 - 31 May

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Rouf Bhat

KASHMIR, MONDAY:

US actor Tom Cruise (R) and British actress Emily Blunt (2-R) speak with a TV reporter on the red carpet as they arrive for the World Premiere of the film "Edge of Tomorrow" at the BFI IMAX c

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY:

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CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY:

Elliot Rodger

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YOKOHAMA, SUNDAY:

Egyptians wait in line to vote at a polling station in Cairo

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CAIRO, MONDAY:

US military unfurl an American flag on Memorial Day

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NEW YORK, MONDAY:

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LONDON, TUESDAY:

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DONETSK, TUESDAY:

Camila Giorgi returns ball to Svetlana Kuznetsova

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PARIS, THURSDAY:

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LICHFIELD, THURSDAY:

Nato’s renaissance: how the world’s most powerful military alliance has taken centre stage

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Talking point

Curtailing abortion rights: will Republicans rue their victory?

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In Brief

How the Taliban is rolling back the freedoms of the past 20 years

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Today’s newspapers

‘Can we now just focus on the big issues?’

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Tall Tales

George W Bush performs ‘history’s greatest Freudian slip’

The flagship McDonald's on Pushkin Square in Moscow

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The latest on . . .

Russian roulette for McDonald’s, Unilever and Renault

The tombs of the Caliphs in el-Arafa necropolis

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In Depth

Inside Cairo’s City of the Dead

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Tall Tales

Women ‘benefit more from hugs than men’

The mysterious Russian oligarch deaths

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In Depth

Depp v. Heard: what the latest battle has revealed

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Why we’re talking about . . .

Is Vladimir Putin seriously ill?

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Week in pictures: 25 - 31 May

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