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The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. Italy said it has asked the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of the 43-year-old ambassador, who died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda. IMAGES
Italian President Sergio Mattarella attends a funeral for some of the victims of an earthquake that killed nearly 300 people in Italy, as the country observes a day of mourning. IMAGES
Funerals are held for protesters who were killed in violent demonstrations in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Friday. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives at a police station in Nîmes to meet police officials, following the deaths of a 10-year-old child and an 18-year-old teenager, in suspected drugs-related violence. 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).