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The state funerals of Ambassador Luca Attanasio and police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, killed in an attack in DR Congo, are held in Rome. Italy said it has asked the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of the 43-year-old ambassador, who died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda. IMAGES
The first of 36 coffins are laid out in the Italian town of Amatrice ahead of a funeral for victims of last week's earthquake. People are gathering in the worst-hit town for a ceremony that will be attended by Italy's Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi. IMAGES of the first coffins arriving
A powerful pre-dawn earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy, leaving at least 38 people dead and dozens more injured, trapped or missing. Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities close to the epicentre of the quake, which had a magnitude of between 6.0 and 6.2, according to monitors. IMAGES of firefighters searching through wreckage
Mourners attend a mass for the victims of a roof collapse at a church in northeastern Mexico that left 11 people dead and another dozen injured. The tragedy struck the coastal town of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, when about 70 people were attending a baptism at the Santa Cruz Catholic Church, according to officials. IMAGES
Morocco earthquake victims receive treatment at Marrakesh university hospital. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake -- Morocco's strongest ever -- has killed and injured thousands. IMAGES
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