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Images show people standing amidst the rubble of a house that was destroyed by a Russian air strike that killed seven people, four of them children, in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside of northern Syria. Russia, which did not comment immediately on the raid, is a main backer of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when the government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests. The last pocket of armed opposition to the regime includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces. IMAGES
View over Kyiv as air raid siren wails as Russia steps up air strikes on military facilities in the capital, a day after warning it will renew its assault on the city in response to what it says are Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil. A military hardware factory in Kyiv was hit by strikes early Saturday, an AFP journalist says, while on Friday Russian forces bombed a missile unit outside the city. IMAGES
Smoke billows above the Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun after Damascus resumed air strikes on northwest Syria's Idlib, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing its opponents of targeting an airbase of its ally Russia. IMAGES
The strikes on Syria by the United States, Britain and France "were entirely the right thing to do," says the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson while arriving at the EU foreign ministers' summit in Luxembourg. SOUNDBITE