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Plumes of smoke billow from Adaisseh in southern Lebanon after Israeli shelling. Cross-border fire has erupted almost daily between Israel and Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement, since Hamas militants broke through Gaza's militarised border and attacked southern Israel on October 7. IMAGES
Images taken from Shusha, Azerbaijan, show the town of Stepanakert, capital of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, as Azerbaijan forces tighten their grip on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh and international concern mounts over the plight of ethnic Armenian civilians trapped there. Nagorno-Karabakh is a predominantly Armenian-populated region where Azerbaijani forces scored a lightning victory earlier this week. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside government offices in Yerevan hours after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan slammed calls for a "coup" in Armenia. Armenia's opposition has accused Pashinyan of being weak on Karabakh, a region mostly populated by ethnic Armenians over which Yerevan and Baku have been locked in a dispute over decades. IMAGES
Famagusta, Aug 13 (EFE) .- The announcement of the partial opening of Varosha, in violation of a series of UN resolutions made by the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on July 20, poses a dilemma among the Greek Cypriot population.Famagusta came under Turkish control in 1974 during the Turkish invasion and has remained abandoned ever since. (Camera: FLORA ALEXANDROU)SHOT LIST: THE VAROSHA GHOST TOWN IN FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS.
Morelia, Apr 25 (EFE).- Once a national leader in marijuana cultivation, the Mexican town of El Aguaje now faces a massive exodus of families who made their fortunes selling the drug.El Aguaje is the most recognized town in the municipality of Aguililla, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, and famous for "narcocorridos," the Mexican drug-dealer ballads that describe its history as a "narco town," although today it only has around 300 inhabitants of the 15,000 that had in the 1990s.At that time, the town was known as a "narco's paradise" by the dozens of families who built ostentatious residences accompanied by luxurious trucks at their doors. (Camera: IVÁN VILLANUEVA).B-ROLL OF THE TOWN OF AGUAJE IN THE STATE OF MICHOACÁN, MEXICO.