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A rescue team is on the site where a huge boulder detached from the Marmolada glacier in Italy's northern Alps, causing an avalanche that killed at least five people and injured eight others, according to a provisional toll from the rescue services. IMAGES
The United States tells the UN General Assembly that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could displace as many as five million people. "If Russia continues down this path, it could -- according to our estimates -- create a new refugee crisis, one of the largest facing the world today," said America's ambassador to the world body, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. SOUNDBITE
Civilians queue at a checkpoint at the Russian border after leaving eastern Ukraine's self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), as war fears mount following further escalating tensions between Russia and the West. IMAGES
Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES
Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region is under "blockade", the World Health Organization chief says, warning that people are starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. "People are dying because of lack of supplies," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, tells reporters from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. SOUNDBITE
Rupgonj, Jul 9 (EFE/EPA).- At least 52 people were killed and 25 injured in a massive fire at a food and beverages factory close to Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, authorities said on Friday.Of the deceased, 49 had died on the spot and three others later in a hospital, the fire service of Narayanganj, where the accident took place, said in an official statement, also confirming that 25 people had been wounded in the fire.However, it was not immediately clear how many people remained missing. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM). SHOT LIST: AFTERMATH OF A MASIVE FIRE AT NARAYANGONJ HASHEM FOODS LTD FACTORY IN RUPGONJ, NARAYANGONJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH.