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Added on the 13/03/2024 05:43:41 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Drone images show damage to China's eastern city of Yancheng after a chemical plant exploded, killing at least 64, in one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years. IMAGES
Emergency services at the site of a strike that killed a 25 year-old worker in Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, according to the Magen David Adom. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7. IMAGES
Images show firefighters battling the huge blaze that killed at least three people and injured nearly 300 in Kenya's capital Nairobi. The fire broke out just before midnight on Thursday in the Embakasi neighbourhood southeast of the capital and was contained at around 0600 GMT. IMAGES
A huge cloud of smoke billows into the sky following a strike in northern Gaza is seen from the Israeli side of the border. Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel has relentlessly bombarded Gaza and sent in ground troops in an offensive that has killed at least 20,000 people, mostly women and children, according to the Palestinian territory's Hamas government. Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 killed about 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. IMAGES
A big explosion in northern Gaza, seen from the Israeli city of Sderot. Israel bombarded targets in Gaza after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas. 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).