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Italian firefighters and other emergency services evacuate residents fom the town of Senigallia after at least seven people died when violent storms in the centre of the country flooded roads and homes. The Corriere della Sera newspaper said about 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain fell in two hours -- about the quantity normally recorded in six months in this zone. IMAGES
Images filmed in the early hours of Friday show flames burning on the Euroferry Olympia ferry off Greece, after a fire broke out on the Italian-flagged ferry sailing through the Ionian Sea, injuring three people among the nearly 300 people on board. IMAGES
Firefighters and planes battle a wildfire in the natural reserve of Monte Catillo in Tivoli, near Rome. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze. An anticyclone dubbed Lucifer has swept across Italy sending temperatures soaring and is expected to continue for several days. IMAGES
As family members mourn their lost loved ones, Greek and Italian authorities faced delays on their investigation into why a ferry caught fire en route from Greece to Italy. Justin Mitchell reports.
Donald Trump calls off his rally in Wilmington, north Carolina, the Republican candidate's first campaign event since his criminal trial in New York began this week, due to bad weather threatening the outdoor gathering. Thousands of supporters had gathered for the event at the airport in the North Carolina city of Wilmington when he called in 30 minutes before the scheduled start. "We want to make sure that everybody is safe above all and so they've asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter," Trump says in the call broadcast over the loudspeakers. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).