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Added on the 25/02/2021 10:03:19 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. The envoy died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda. Attanasio's Italian bodyguard and a Congolese driver were also killed. IMAGES
Italians pay hommage to Mario Cerciello Refa, a police officer whose stabbing death sparked a national outcry, while the leaked photo of a blindfolded US suspect raised protests. Cerciello's funeral takes place in his home town near Mount Vesuvius. IMAGES
Images of a crater caused by the roadside bomb that killed an Israeli police officer during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp. The early morning strike by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city killed six Palestinians. IMAGES
Belgian anti-terror investigators take over the investigation into a fatal knife attack on a Brussels police officer, according to the federal prosecutor's office. IMAGES
The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
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).