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Firefighters work at a site of a household item shopping mall hit by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 25, 2024. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)

Firefighters battle a blaze at a household goods shopping mall in Kharkiv, Ukraine, following a Russian air strike on May 25, 2024.(Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)

Russian influencer and model Polina Pushkareva poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film “L'Amour ouf” (Beating Hearts) in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

Russian influencer and model Polina Pushkareva poses on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for the screening of “L’Amour ouf” (Beating Hearts) on May 23, 2024.(Photo by Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

Handmade rockets fly over Saint Mark church during Greek Orthodox Easter celebrations in the village of Vrontados, on the island of Chios, Greece, on May 4, 2024. During the Orthodox Easter midnight mass service residents of two “rival” churches, Panagia Erithiani and Saint Mark, fire handmade firework-like rockets at each other's steeples, unleashing thousands of rockets into the night sky, in a tradition going back generations. (Photo by Konstantinos Anagnostou/Reuters)

Handmade rockets streak over Saint Mark church during the annual “Rouketopolemos” (rocket war) Easter celebration in Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios on May 4, 2024. The tradition involves two rival parishes firing thousands of projectiles at each other’s steeples.(Photo by Konstantinos Anagnostou/Reuters)

American professional basketball player Kyle Kuzma and Canadian fashion model Winnie Harlow pose for a photo on the grid prior to the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco at Circuit de Monaco on May 26, 2024 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

NBA player Kyle Kuzma and model Winnie Harlow pose for a photo on the grid before the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco in Monte-Carlo on May 26, 2024.(Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

Women supporting the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party dance during an election rally in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Sunday, May 5, 2024. Voting in the world's largest democracy will stretch over seven phases, with different states voting at different times and results will be announced on June 4. Over 970 million voters more than 10% of the world's population will elect 543 members for the lower house of Parliament for a term of five years. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)

Supporters of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party dance during an election rally in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 5, 2024.(Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)

Police make an arrest as they face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, early on May 2, 2024. Police deployed a heavy presence on US university campuses on May 1 after forcibly clearing away some weeks-long protests against Israel's war with Hamas. Dozens of police cars patrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles campus in response to violent clashes overnight when counter-protesters attacked an encampment of pro-Palestinian students. (Photo by Etienne Laurent/AFP Photo)

Police arrest a pro-Palestinian protester during the clearance of an encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on May 2, 2024.(Photo by Etienne Laurent/AFP Photo)

A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer detains a protestor while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment after dispersal orders were given at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, on May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The camp was declared ‘unlawful’ by the university and over 100 protestors who refused to leave were detained during the operation. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some protestors calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A California Highway Patrol officer detains a protester while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on May 2, 2024. The university had declared the site unlawful.(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Iraqi football superfan Mahdi al-Karkhi reacts after his team won the U23 AFC Qatar 2024 Asian Cup third-place match against Indonesia at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha on May 2, 2024. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP Photo)

Iraqi football superfan Mahdi al-Karkhi reacts after his team won the U23 AFC Asian Cup third-place match against Indonesia in Doha on May 2, 2024.(Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP Photo)

Russian servicewomen take part in the Victory Day military parade rehearsal at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, May 5, 2024. The parade will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 79 years of the victory in WWII. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/AP Photo)

Russian servicewomen participate in a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 5, 2024.(Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/AP Photo)

A fan of American singer Madonna, wearing a mask, strikes a pose during a rehearsal for Madonna's The Celebration Tour, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Madonna will conclude her tour on Saturday with a free concert at Copacabana Beach. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

A fan of Madonna wears a mask during a rehearsal for the singer’s “The Celebration Tour” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 2, 2024.(Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

Palestinians celebrate on May 6, 2024 with fireworks in a street in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, after Hamas announced it has accepted a truce proposal amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, on May 6, informed mediators Qatar and Egypt that his Palestinian militant group had accepted their proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza after nearly seven months of war. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, set off fireworks on May 6, 2024, after Hamas announced it had accepted a ceasefire proposal.(Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Riot police officers clash with pro-Palestinian protestors during a rally in support of Palestinians, outside the Egyptian Embassy in Athens on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)

Riot police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters during a rally outside the Egyptian Embassy in Athens, Greece, on May 7, 2024.(Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from a border position in southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip on May 8, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip on May 8, 2024.(Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)

This photograph taken on May 9, 2024, shows the Arc de Triomphe monument on the Avenue des Champs Elysees at sunset in Paris. This event known as “Paris Henge” happens twice a year. (Photo by Stefano Rellandini/AFP Photo)

The sun sets directly behind the Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on May 9, 2024. The phenomenon, known as “Paris Henge,” occurs twice a year.(Photo by Stefano Rellandini/AFP Photo)

Police remove a protester on the University of Pennsylvania campus, in Philadelphia, on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Photo by Jessica Griffin/AP Photo)

Police detain a protester during the clearance of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia on May 10, 2024.(Photo by Jessica Griffin/AP Photo)

Displaced Palestinians arrive in a car carrying their belongings to set up shelter after returning to Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Displaced Palestinians return to Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip with their belongings on May 9, 2024.(Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Rafah, Gaza, on Friday, May 10, 2024.(Photo by Ismael Abu Dayyah, AP Photo)

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital in Rafah on May 10, 2024.(Photo by Ismael Abu Dayyah, AP Photo)

Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1st row 2nd R), takes a selfie with students as she arrives with Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, during their visit at the Lightway Academy in Abuja on May 10, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as part of celebrations of Invictus Games anniversary. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP Photo)

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, takes a selfie with students during a visit to the Lightway Academy in Abuja, Nigeria, with Prince Harry on May 10, 2024.(Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP Photo)

A supporter of a pro-Palestinian encampment places flowers at the feet of police at the University of California, Irvine, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Irvine, Calif. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP Photo)

A supporter of a pro-Palestinian encampment offers flowers to police officers during a standoff at the University of California, Irvine, on May 15, 2024.(Photo by Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP Photo)

Raymond Hinze
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