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    Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives in St Petersburg

  2. A large grey bundle of smoke rising from a village on a hillside. The smoke cloud fills most of the picture and is dramatic against the backdrop with village buildings in the foreground and hills in the background.

  3. Lyse Doucet in a blue head scarf.

  4. Tanks and an armoured vehicle drive in Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, in northern Israel

  5. Kushner and Witkoff

  6. A man places a ballot into a box in a makeshift polling station in Gaza while a female election officials looks on

  7. Couples in their wedding clothes walking in a line.

  8. Protesters at the front of a demonstration are holding a large yellow anti-war banner, with many people following behind them.

  9. (From left to right): Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. Photo: 12 April 2026

  10. An image of Mojtaba Khamenei in the middle of a road where yellow and green taxis and motorcycles are parked, with a man wearing sunglasses, black trousers and a grey T-shirt holding a phone to his right ear.

  11. Top view of a man's head with a kippah embroidered with an Israel flag and a Palestinian flag

  12. The exterior of a grey and white building with two rows of external temporary fencing and also black and yellow traffic blocking posts

  13. Netanyahu, who has grey short hair and wears a black suit with a blue tie and has a badge of the Israeli flag on his lapel, speaks into a mic at a podium

  14. A woman holds her hand to her face in grief in the district of Tadamon in Damascus (file photo)

  15. BBC chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, wearing navy outfit

  16. Masked men in beige fatigues climb up a ladder on the side of a ship.

  17. Two people ride on a moped, while one holds a Hezbollah flag and holds two fingers in the air, on a street in Beirut in front of a huge pile of rubble where a building once stood, taken on Friday.

  18. A composite image showing a satellite image of the home of Joe Elias and his wife Diana in southern Lebanon which has been destroyed. On the right is a picture of Joe and Diana together. The BBC Verify logo is in the top left-hand corner and both images are surrounded by a blue border.

  19. Donald Trump, flanked by JD Vance, left, and Marco Rubio, discusses the ceasefire in the Oval Office

  20. Masked men climbing stairs

  21. A grey military helicopter hovers on top of a oil tanker, a soldier sliding down a rope towards the top deck as another uniformed soldier waits. The deck is lined with oil transportation equipment, including green pipes

  22. A screen capture from a video said to show the seizure of the container ships MSC Francesca and Epaminondas in the Strait of Hormuz

  23. Player wearing the Italy kit placed in front of the Iran national flag