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Added on the 22/02/2023 17:47:51 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Gondolas lay beached along a series of Venice's famed canals this week, as low tides and a lack of rain left would-be punters high and dry. Tourists out on the deeper, busier canals sailed passed exposed foundations of ancient palazzos in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, while in shallower ones, forlorn boats sat on silty mud flats.
The water in the Venice canals is becoming clearer as the city experiences a drop in tourism and reduction in canal traffic due to the health security measures imposed across Italy to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Niger's deposed president is running out of food and under increasingly dire conditions two weeks after he was ousted in a military coup and put under house arrest, an adviser said Wednesday.
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