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Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
The beach of the Mexican Pacific resort town of Acapulco is littered with fallen trees and rubbish after Hurricane Otis left a trail of destruction in the city. Residents walk with their belongings along the road as authorities rush to send emergency aid, restore communications and assess damage in the area. IMAGES
Mexicans enjoy the beach in the seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta despite gray skies looming in the distance as tropical storm Lidia approaches Mexico's Pacific coast. Lidia is expected to strengthen to Category 1 hurricane status before making landfall. Rainfall is also expected further south on Mexico's Pacific coast, as tropical storm Max approaches. IMAGES
Teams work amid the rubble after a church roof collapsed during a baptism in northeastern Mexico, killing 10 people including children and injuring 60 more, according to authorities. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
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