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Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
A dead Bryde's whale is removed from the Praia do Rosa beach in southern Brazil. The 13-meter male animal was pulled from the water by local government tractors and will be studied by researchers at Santa Catarina State University to determine its death. IMAGES
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is greeted by UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he arrives at COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
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