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Residents of the old town of Marrakesh, who were displaced by last weekend's powerful earthquake, wake up in a football stadium, which has been turned into a shelter by Moroccan authorities. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake -- Morocco's strongest ever -- has killed nearly 3,000 pople and injured more than 5,600 since it hit last Friday in Al-Haouz province, south of tourist hub Marrakesh. The number of people left without homes by the quake is not known. IMAGES
Residents of the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, in the Lugansk region, take shelter in their basements as heavy artillery shells bombard the city. Cars, houses and apartments lie in rubble, the shelling leaving them severely damaged. IMAGES
Thousands of displaced Ukrainians camp at the Polish border of Korczowa - Krakovets, waiting to cross into Poland. Fighting has claimed dozens of civilian lives and could, according to the EU, displace up to seven million people. Ukraine vows not to give ground at talks with Moscow as Ukrainian forces resist a Russian invasion four days in and Moscow puts its nuclear forces on high alert. IMAGES
Ukrainians seek shelter inside a Kyiv basement as fighting reaches the streets of the capital. Ukrainian soldiers repulsed a Russian attack in the capital, the military said Saturday after a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed his pro-Western country would not be bowed by Moscow. IMAGES
Kabul, Aug 28 (EFE/EPA).- Internally displaced Afghan families fleeing the violence set up Saturday a temporary shelter at a park in the Afghan capital.The Taliban asked Afghan citizens Saturday to return, within a week, all the guns, ammunition, vehicles, and other government properties in their possession. (Camera: STRINGER).B-ROLL OF THE TEMPORARY SHELTER OF DISPLACED AFGHAN FAMILIES IN A PARK IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.