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Images of armed soldiers on guard outside the Regional 8 prison complex, as Ecuador's army and police launch an operation in the nerve center of a drug war between the government and powerful criminal groups. IMAGES
The military is deployed in the surroundings of the Palacio de Carondelet, Ecuador's presidential palace after new President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison. Officials have announced that four police officers were kidnapped following Noboa's announcement. IMAGES
French police officers stand guard on Bir-Hakeim Bridge in Paris near the site where an attacker stabbed a German tourist to death and injured two other people before being arrested. IMAGES ++ COMPLETES VIDI346U3K9_EN and VIDI346T9RW_EN ++
For the first time since 1996, the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Republican Guard performs the changing of the guard in front of the Elysee Palace in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron. The changing of the guard is once again open to the public on the first Tuesday of every month. IMAGES
On a visit to the Philippine Coast Guard headquarters in Manila, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida boards a Japan-made BRP Teresa Magbanua ship with commandant Admiral Ronnie Gavan. Japan is committed to helping "improve the Philippines maritime law enforcement capability including the provision of patrol vessels and defence equipment and technology cooperation," according to a speech Kishida made at the Philippine presidential palace on November 3. IMAGES
Israeli security forces inspect a site where a rocket, launched from Lebanon, fell in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border, as tensions between Israel on one side and Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions on the other intensify over Israel's war with Hamas. IMAGES