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Residents move in boats through the flooded streets of a town in northern Bolivia after heavy rains caused the Acre River to overflow. The city of Cobija on the border with Brazil is suffering unprecedented flooding, with water levels reaching 17 meters (55.7 ft). The rainy season in Bolivia, which began in December and will last until March, has so far left 40 people dead and nearly 10,000 families affected, according to the government. IMAGES
Residents of the southern city of Sderot board buses to evacuate to safer areas in Israel amid ongoing war against Hamas. Situated on the front lines near the Gaza border, Sderot was overrun by Hamas militants in their surprise attack on October 7 and is used to being targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. IMAGES
Smoke billows and gunshots ring out during renewed clashes between members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement and Islamist militants in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon. IMAGES
General views of Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp, Ain al-Helweh, on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, the morning after deadly clashes resumed. The clashes have pitted members of the Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamist militants, excluding Hamas. IMAGES
Smoke billows and gunshots ring out during renewed clashes between members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement and Islamist militants in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon. IMAGES
People evacuate through flooded streets after heavy rains inundated the Chilean city of Talca, 200 km south of Santiago. IMAGES