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Aerial images of burnt houses after a fire that affected the hills in Vina del Mar as Interior Minister Carolina Toha announces at least 19 people have died in forest fires raging near Chile's coast, warning that the toll was likely to climb higher. IMAGES
Firefighters scramble to contain a raging inferno northwest of Athens as Greece's emergency services continue to battle a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country that has left 20 dead. Civil protection ordered the evacuation of Ano Liosia in northwest Athens, a district of over 25,000 people, with people from the neighbouring town of Fyli rushing to flee the advancing flames. IMAGES
Thousands of travellers have gathered at Rhodes international airport, hoping to leave the Greek island where firefighters have counted more than 46 new wildfires in the last 24 hours. According to the authorities, more than 30,000 people have had to flee the fires burning across the popular tourist destination in "the largest evacuation operation ever carried out in Greece", where temperatures have reached 45 degrees Celsius. IMAGES
Santiago, Sep 28 (EFE).- Thousands of Chilean women celebrated with green handkerchiefs on Tuesday the approval in the Chamber of Deputies of a bill that seeks to decriminalize abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.The largest gathering took place in Plaza Italia, a popular roundabout in central Santiago that was the epicentre of the massive protests of 2019, the most serious since the end of the military dictatorship. (Camera: ESTEBAN GÓMEZ).SHOT LIST: WOMEN DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOR OF FREE ABORTION OUTSIDE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE.
Images from a bridge overlooking the Meuse river as residents of Liege, Belgium are told to evacuate the city threatened by flooding. 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).