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Added on the 16/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Cabañas (Guatemala), Apr 16 (EFE), (Camera: Esteban Biba).- A species of poisonous lizard endemic to the dry forest of the Motagua valley, in eastern Guatemala, is barely surviving illegal trafficking and hunting.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
During the Spanish Civil War, Spain faced a severe food shortage. People in the Cantabrian mountains began to hunt bears to eat, driving them nearly to extinction.
Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as officials said 10 people were feared dead in forest fires in the central Valparaiso region, where blazes are threatening hundreds of homes. IMAGES
Images of firefighters trying to contain the fire that killed at least three people and injured nearly 300 after a truck packed with cylinders exploded just before midnight on Thursday night, turning the sky orange and setting fire to nearby homes and parked cars. IMAGES