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Added on the 16/07/2015 17:22:00 - Copyright : Reuters EN
City workers clear the debris after Storm Poly hit Amsterdam this morning, causing major disruption and closing public transport and highways. All trains, buses and trams were stopped and 400 flights from Schiphol were cancelled as a result of the region's strongest summer storm on record. Fallen trees closed roads and damaged power lines and an Amsterdam tram collided with a delivery van at the height of the storm. Police say one person has been killed. IMAGES
Health workers treat people injured in a school dormitory fire in Guyana as they are unloaded from a plane at Eugene Correia International Airport in the capital Georgetown. At least 20 people were killed in the fire at the Mahdia Secondary School in central Guyana. IMAGES
Yemen's former defence minister, Major General Mahmud al-Subaihi, and the brother of the ex-president, Major General Nasser Mansur Hadi arrive at Aden airport, along with other prisoners released by the Huthis, following prisoner swap between the rebels and the internationally recognised-government. IMAGES
Rescue workers are clearing rubble at the Amstor shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, after a Russian missile strike left 16 people killed and 59 wounded, according to Ukraine's emergency services. The Russian military claims it struck a weapons depot nearby and the resulting explosions hit the shopping mall, while Group of Seven leaders have branded the attack as "a war crime". IMAGES
As night falls in the southern French city of Sanary-sur-Mer, rescue workers continue to search through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, where two people are still unaccounted for. One man was killed and five people were injured, according to a latest report. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).