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Lebanese army soldiers clash with retired military personnel as they try to break into the Parliament in Beirut, during a session to approve the 2022 budget. The protesters were demanding an increase in their monthly retirement pay, decimated during the economic meltdown.
The Painters of Pompeii Exhibition is being held at Museo Civieo Archeologico, Bologna, Italy until March 2023. Photograph: Roberto Serra. The exhibition renews focus on the artists and craftsmen who created the wall decorations in the houses of Pompeii, Hercalaneum and the Vesuvian area.
Reuters / Sunday, September 25, 2022
Local residents collect firewood from abandoned blindages of the Russian army to heat their homes, as they have no electricity, water and gas, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 25. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Reservists drafted during the partial mobilization line up outside a recruitment office in the Siberian town of Tara in the Omsk region, Russia. 26 September. Reuters/Alexey Malgavko
Krakow, Poland
Activists hold banners during a Malopolska provincial session, as the council considers changes to a 2017 anti-smog resolution that campaigners say will allow citizens to burn any kind of fuel, even garbage, resulting in high levels of air pollution. Photograph: Omar Marques/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
VLADIMIR Putin is said to have vanished to a luxury palace in a secret location as a new wave of protests over his war draft swept Russia.
The Russian leader’s disappearance has sparked fresh rumours about the state of his health with sources claiming he is resting “body and soul.”
Vladimir Putin is preparing to block men of conscription age from leaving the country as queues of people flee Russia.
Large crowds have been seen at the borders of neighbouring countries of Georgia and Finland
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has won Italy’s election, according to exit polls, and is on course to become the country’s first female prime minister.
Her allies, Matteo Salvini of the far-right League, and former PM Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia have both had close ties with Russia. Mr Berlusconi, 85, claimed last week that Vladimir Putin was pushed into invading Ukraine while Mr Salvini has called into question Western sanctions on Moscow.
Optus reported a massive data breach on Thursday, which included the details of 11.2 million customers and more than 3.6m driver’s license numbers. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
This handout picture on 24 September shows an Aeropostale Boeing 737 aircraft after it overran the runway during its landing phase at night at Montpellier airport in Montpellier in France.
Women take part in a sit-in following the death of Mahsa Amini in Beirut, Lebanon 21 September 2022. Reuters/Mohamed Azakir
Wollongong, Australia
An aerial view of the men’s cycling elite road race at the UCI Road World Championships 2022. Photograpkh: Rex/Shutterstock
How many of the world’s “Most influential Jews” are begging the State of Israel for defensive weapons against a genocidal invader – to no avail?
Thomas Kennington’s social realist paintings highlighted the plights of poor, widowed or abandoned women and children during the Victorian era ~ here’s ‘Homeless’ (1890)
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