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Riverside, Sep 18 (EFE/EPA).- Family, friends and residents of Riverside, California, gathered on Saturday for a funeral service to say farewell to Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, of Norco, who was killed in the attack during the evacuation at Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The attack claimed the lives of 10 of his fellow Marines, a US Navy corpsman, a US Army soldier, and more than 160 Afghans. (Camera: ETIENNE LAURENT). SHOT LIST: A MEMORIAL CEREMONY OF THE LATE US MARINE KAREEM GRANT NIKOUI AT HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, US.
The funeral of Tahir Elci, a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist, was held in the southeast of Turkey on Sunday. Elci was gunned down while making a press statement on Saturday.
Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah gather in the southern suburbs of Beirut to bury the son of their late military leader, who was killed in an air strike in Syria. Mana Rabiee reports.
Relatives and friends attend funeral of prosecutor Cesar Suarez who was was gunned down in his car on the streets of the port city of Guayaquil, which has become a dangerous hub for the export of cocaine from neighboring countries. IMAGES
At least 2,000 people attend an anti-government protest at Habima square in Tel Aviv, as the Israel-Hamas war nears its 100 days mark. The war, in which Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, began when the militants launched an unprecedented attack on October 7 that resulted in about 1,140 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza since then has killed at least 23,843 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll reported by the health ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. IMAGES
The weekly Saturday protests in support of Palestinians returns to the streets of London, with police estimating around 15,000-20,000 in attendance. This comes a day after a US veto blocked a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire. Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages -- 138 of whom remain in Gaza, Israeli officials say. In response, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a military offensive in Gaza that has killed at least 17,490 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. IMAGES