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Images show Turkish residents in the city of Gaziantep as they gather for the Friday Prayer at Hadji Veli Mosque, four days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria, killing over 20,000 people. IMAGES
Kabul, May 13 (EFE/EPA).- Afghanistan began its Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations on Thursday free of gunshots and explosions that have become routine as the conflict escalated in recent months, after the government and the Taliban declared a three-day ceasefire for the most important festival for Muslims. (Camera: HEDAYATULLAH AMID)SHOT LIST: PRESIDENT MOHAMMAD ASHRAF GHANI ARRIVES AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE FOR EID PRAYERS IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
Damascus, Dec 8 (EFE/EPA).- Syria’s agriculture minister Mohamed Hassan Qatana has called on the country’s citizens to plant wheat - even at home - in a bid to alleviate a severe bread shortage in the war-torn nation.“We are under a blockade and the cultivation of every piece of land will help achieve food security for each family, thus relieving the country of the burden of imports,” Qatana told Efe during an interview at his office in the ministry headquarters in Damascus.FOOTAGE OF A BREAD SHOP.SOUNDBITES OF MOHAMED HASAN QATANA.Translations: 1.- "It's probably not a crisis, but a problem, because Syria is famous for being a country of wheat."2.- "We always cultivate around 1,800,000 hectares, but during the war, the cultivated land dropped to 1,100,000 hectares, and last year we recovered to 1,200,000."3.- "The cultivated land suffered great problems due to the decrease in water resources, which caused the drop in wheat production to 2.8 million tons of annual wheat compared to what was produced before the war, an average of 3.2 million tons."4.- "We are in a state of war, and we are under a blockade, and the cultivation of every piece of land will help achieve food security for the Syrian wherever they live. Why can't every Syrian citizen have a field to grow wheat for their food self-sufficiency?"
Moscow, Mar 30 (EFE).- (Camera: Ignacio Ortega) Monday marked the first day of mandatory quarantine in Moscow, a confinement that could be extended to the rest of the country. FOOTAGE OF MOSCOW.
European Council president Donald Tusk says after a meeting of EU leaders that Turkey's US-brokered truce is not serious and demands Ankara halt its offensive against Kurdish forces. SOUNDBITE
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).
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