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Images of supporters at the Roi Baudouin stadium, after the Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden was abandoned at half-time following a "terrorist attack" in Brussels which left two Swedish nationals dead. IMAGES
Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on Monday begin demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against sub-standard housing and illegal migration. France has deployed hundreds of police officers and gendarmes in Mayotte -- the country's poorest department -- since April to prepare a major security measure called Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back" in the local language). Diggers started destroying the sheet-metal shacks in the Talus 2 slum in the Majicavo area at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT) on Monday. IMAGES
Images released by the Suez Canal Authority show a boat towing the now refloating M/V Glory, a cargo vessel grounded in Egypt's Suez Canal, while joining a southbound convoy near to Al Qantarah. Suez Canal maritime traffic has resumed to "normal" after the 225-metre-long cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain ran aground but was then refloated and towed away, according to Egyptian authorities. IMAGES
The EU's home affairs commissioner says she is "extremely concerned" by reports of illegal, sometimes violent, migrant pushbacks at the bloc's borders, particularly in Greece in Croatia where she called for probes. SOUNDBITE
Tapachula, Sep 5 (EFE).- The Mexican authorities intercepted Sunday the fourth migrant caravan that departed Saturday morning from the municipality of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, and was heading to the north of the country.Although a little more organized than the previous three, the fourth caravan lasted less than 24 hours and was broken up in the municipality of Huixtla after it had traveled just over 40 kilometers on Saturday. (Camera: JUAN MANUEL BLANCO).SHOT LIST: MEXICAN AUTHORITIES INTERCEPT THE FOURTH MIGRANT CARAVAN IN TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS STATE, MEXICO.