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Added on the 24/07/2021 20:08:11 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Images of the night sky over Eastern Israel, seen from the center of the country, as Israel comes under direct attack from Iran, the army has announced, in a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes that threatened to overshadow the conflict in Gaza. IMAGES
Kenya's President William Ruto announces the deployment of troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint regional operation against a rebel offensive. "Its security is an obligation that we commit our best effort to achieve" he says. SOUNDBITE
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 29 people in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday. Scores of Afghans die each year in torrential downpours, particularly in impoverished rural areas where poorly built homes are at risk of collapse. IMAGES
Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
A cellphone video shows a Ugandan military tank and vehicles transporting troops in the Congolese border town of Nobili. Ugandan troops deploymed in the eastern DR Congo on Tuesday in an operation against the notorious ADF rebel group launched in cooperation with Kinshasa. IMAGES
Khogyani, Feb 7 (EFE/EPA).- At least one police officer was killed and two others injured Sunday in a suicide car bomb blast that targeted a police post on the outskirts of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.The Afghan conflict left more than 2,500 civilian casualties in the last quarter of 2020, with a significant increase in the use of explosive devices, according to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: AFGHAN SECURITY OFFICIALS INSPECT THE SCENE OF A SUICIDE CAR BOMB BLAST ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KHOGYANI DISTRICT OF NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN.