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Five years after the start of the Syrian civil war, Aleppo has opened its first boxing club. Amid battles between ISIS, rebel forces and Syrian regime, the children of the city are learning to punch their way out of the war.
Syrian Kurds hope to return home but fear for security, as months of fighting has caused massive destruction in strategic border town of Kobani. Nathan Frandino reports.
Rescue teams search for victims under the rubble in devastated Talat N'Yaaqoub village in the Atlas mountains. The earthquake killed at least 2,122 people, injured more than 2,400 others, and flattened entire villages. IMAGES
Residents of Secocha, southern Peru, walk among the debris in their village after it was devastated by a landslide. Landslides in southern Peru have left at least 15 people dead, 20 injured and two missing, authorities have said, warning that the toll from the disaster could rise. IMAGES
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), Jul 9 (EFE) (Camera: Raúl Morales) .- Dozens of US war veterans of Mexican origin deported to the Ciudad Juárez border recover the hope of returning to the country they served in war after the last words from the White House, which has promised to review the cases.FOOTAGE OF TWO VETERANS IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICOSOUNDBITES of JOSE FRANCISCO LOPEZ, DEPORTED VETERAN, and IVAN OCON, DEPORTED VETERANTRANSLATIONJOSE - That piece of news was a nice surprise for us, like a miracle to us, we want to see our families in the US, get together, it would be a great pleasure for us, it would bring lot of happiness. Biden is more humane, has a bigger heart than Trump. He was cruel to us, thanks God we can come back. I am a Vietnam veteran, they flew me there.IVAN - Its like waking up from a bad dream that never ends. This news give us a new light for a lot of us who were deported. I have been deported for 5 years but its been 18 years since they forgot about us, we are still fighting to get back to our families, we want to recover those moments and create new ones. I served this nation and I thought I wouldn't be deported, but it happened, they tell you you were useless and they say good luck in Mexico. ITS like getting stabbed in the heart.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir pledges he would not return the country to war, in a speech marking 10 troubled years of independence. The world's newest nation, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. Just two years later it was plunged into a devastating civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives and displaced four million people. SOUNDBITE
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