Amritsar massacre: Foreign Office rejects calls to apologise for mass killing of Sikhs by colonial troops


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    8 December 2017

    A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops

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    7 December 2017

    Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway, north of Ventura, California.

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    6 December 2017

    Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City

    Reuters

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    5 December 2017

    Former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev

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    4 December 2017

    A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India

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    3 December 2017

    A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    REUTERS

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    2 December 2017

    A man dressed as Santa Claus skiis down a mountain during the Saint Nicholas Day at the Alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland

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    1 December 2017

    A nurse takes blood for a HIV test for French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits the Delafontaine Hospital on World Aids Day

    Reuters

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    30 November 2017

    An activist pours gasoline as an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump burns during a protest action against Duterte’s plan to set up a Revolutionary Government, along a street in metro Manila, Philippines

    Reuters

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    29 November 2017

    South Korea’s Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undefined location in the east coast of South Korea

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    28 November 2017

    People fall as police fire tear gas to try control the crowd trying to force their way into Kasarani Stadium to attend the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi

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    27 November 2017

    Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing it on an improvised raft to reach Bangladesh, in Teknaf. Two of her sons were killed by gun fire when her village was attacked by Myanmar military, she says

    Reuters

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    26 November 2017

    Mount Agung volcano is seen spewing smoke and ash in Bali

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    25 November 2017

    A Pakistani protester throws a tear gas shell back towards police during a clash in Islamabad

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    24 November 2017

    Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives ahead of his inauguration ceremony to be sworn in as president in Harare

    Reuters

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    23 November 2017

    Comrades of missing crew members express their grief after the Argentine Navy announced that the sound detected in the missing submarine search is consistent with an explosion

    AFP

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    22 November 2017

    Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic shouts at the presiding judge during the verdict hearing in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands

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    21 November 2017

    People and soldiers celebrate after the resignation of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe

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    20 November 2017

    Israeli security forces carry away an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrator as they disperse a protest against Israeli army conscription in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv

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    19 November 2017

    Participants crossing the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as they compete in the 2017 Qingdao International Marathon on the Sea in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province

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    18 November 2017

    Women shout pro-freedom slogans as people carry the remains of Mugees Mir, a suspected militant who according to local media was killed in an encounter with the Indian security forces in Zakura, during his funeral in Srinagar

    Reuters/Danish Ismail

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    17 November 2017

    Riot police use stones to disperse the convoy of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga as they attempt to access the Uhuru Park grounds upon his return

    REUTERS

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    16 November 2017

    Donald Trump has awkward water bottle moment at the White House while talking about his latest overseas trip in Asia

    EPA

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    15 November 2017

    Military vehicles and soldiers patrol the streets in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

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    14 November 2017

    An Iranian boy rides a bicycle through the rubble from damaged buildings in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake left hundreds killed and thousands homeless two days before.

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    13 November 2017

    Gianluigi Buffon reacts during Italy’s World Cup qualification match against Sweden. He retired from international duty after the Azzurri failed to go through.

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    12 November 2017

    Pepole hold placards demanding the return of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi Arabia during the annual Beirut International Marathon

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    11 November 2017

    Polish nationalists light flares as they take part in the March of Independence 2017 in Warsaw

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    10 November 2017

    Protesters rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest this weekend’s visit of President Donald Trump

    AP

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    9 November 2017

    Shiite faithful pilgrims gather between the holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas for Arbaeen

    AP

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    8 November 2017

    A woman wearing a scarf to cover her face looks on as she waits for a passenger bus on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India. Air pollution reached unprecedented levels in the city, prompting the government’s Central Pollution Control Board to recommend emergency free public transport

    Reuters

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    7 November 2017

    Russian solider stands in line at a military parade, that marks the anniversary of the 1941 parade, when Soviet soldiers marched towards the front lines of World War Two, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia

    Reuters

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    6 November 2017

    A Houthi follower emerges from a gap in a flag as he attends a rally to show support to the Palestinians in Sanaa, Yemen

    Reuters

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    5 November 2017

    Riot police run past an excavator, during a demonstration against open-cast brown coal mining of Garzweiler, northwest of Cologne, Germany

    Reuters

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    4 November 2017

    Protesters at a climate demonstration prior to the UN Climate Change Conference COP23 in Bonn, Germany

    EPA

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    3 November 2017

    The first customer shows his new iPhone X after buying it at an Apple Store in Beijing, China

    Reuters/Damir Sagolj

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    2 November 2017

    South African opposition Party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members dance during a demonstration to express their solidarity with the Palestinians in front of the Embassy of Israel in Pretoria. Today is the 100th anniversary of Britain’s Balfour Declaration, which helped lead to Israel’s creation and the Israel occupation of Palestine

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    1 November 2017

    Near the parliament building in Athens, Greece, a girl holds a placard reading, “Where is my mother, where is my father?” Some refugees have announced a hunger strike, as they seek reunification with family members in Germany

    Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis

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    31 October 2017

    Authorities investigate the pickup truck and scene of a terror attack in downtown New York

    EPA

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    30 October 2017

    An officer carries a school girl away from continuing battles with police and protesters in Kenya

    EPA

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    29 October 2017

    A Rohingya woman washes clothes in a stream at Palong Khali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

    Reuters/Adnan Abidi

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    28 October 2017

    ‘Day of the Dead’ parade, Mexico City

    Rex Features


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