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Added on the 26/07/2022 19:50:04 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo arrive at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris to pay tribute to the victims of the 13 November 2015 attacks. IMAGES
French street artist JR has taken over the Trocadero esplanade in Paris, to present an alternative view of the Eiffel Tower by using paper collages to create an optical illusion of the famous landmark. IMAGES
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her cabinet pause for a minute's silence -- precisely a week since the volcano eruption -- in a tribute to the victims. IMAGES
An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture went up early Sunday in Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where a dam collapsed killing 34 with hundreds more feared dead, firefighters and the mining company said. IMAGES of evacuated area
Members of a rescue team search for survivors in a damaged building in Hualien. At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. IMAGES