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Ashdod (Israel), May 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Abir Sultan) Two women were killed on Tuesday in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon by rockets launched from Gaza, representing the first fatalities in Israel since the beginning of Monday, as the escalation of violence with the strip, from which the Palestinian militias have fired at least 250 projectiles in less than 24 hours, continues.FOOTAGE OF A DAMAGED HOUSE IN ASHDOD.
Images show emergency services on site near a roadway that collapsed due to heavy floods, near the city of Volos and flooded areas in Palamas near Karditsa. Storms have killed at least 14 people in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, with a Greek region hit by more rain in 24 hours than it normally sees in a year, officials say. IMAGES
Clean-up crews are at work in Nanterre, west of Paris, following a second night of clashes after the killing of a 17-year-old boy Nahel M., who was shot in the chest at point-blank range on Tuesday in Nanterre in an incident that has reignited debate in France about police tactics long criticised by rights groups. IMAGES
The United States, which recently held talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia, urges the two nations to seize peace initiatives after fresh clashes. "We believe that there continues to be a durable path forward. We believe that there is a peaceful solution to this," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Palestinians inspect the damage at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after overnight clashes erupted early in the morning inside the mosque as Israeli police said they had entered to dislodge "agitators", a move denounced as an "unprecedented crime" by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. IMAGES