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Injured people are brought to a hospital after a deadly 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumatra island. IMAGES
Samut Prakan, De 17 (EFE/EPA).- Thai authorities repatriated Thursday two smuggled orangutans to their nature habitat in Indonesia upon the request of the Indonesian government.Two four-year-old orangutans were smuggled into Thailand in 2017 through the Malaysia - Thailand border and were later seized by Thai authorities. After almost three years of legal process, the animals were Thursday being transported back to their nature habitat in Indonesia and will join a rehabilitation program before being released into the wild. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL).SHOT LIST: AUTHORITIES PREPARE TO REPATRIATE TWO ORANGUTANS AT SUVARNABHUMI AIRPORT CARGO TERMINAL IN SAMUT PRAKAN, THAILAND.
Rescuers scramble to evacuate affected people as overnight heavy flooding hits Medan, the major city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. IMAGES
Indonesians pray for rain as forest fires rage on Sumatra island with the number of blazes in the country's rainforests jumping sharply and spreading smog across Southeast Asia as well as adding to concerns about the impact of increasing wildfire outbreaks worldwide on global warming. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives on the island of Combu off the coast of Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon, with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Macron has promised to discuss closer cooperation in the fight against illegal gold mining with Brazil, where he begins an emblematic state visit lasting almost three days following his trip to French Guiana. IMAGES
A group of around 200 Rohingya refugees huddle on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island, cordoned off by yellow tape meant to stop them running away, after weeks adrift on a wooden boat. IMAGES
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