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Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Images show the exterior of the Andalusia church where the mother of Spain's football chief Luis Rubiales is on hunger strike. Angeles Bejar is taking the action in support of her son, who is under fire for planting an unsolicited kiss on the lips of player Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the Women's World Cup in Australia on August 20. IMAGES
Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
The White House expresses "deep concern" for jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and began refusing water to coincide with the COP27 climate summit. "We have been in high level communication with the Egyptian government on this case, we have deep concern about it, we would like to see him freed," US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tells reporters during a press conference in Washington. SOUNDBITE
Appearing gaunt in a prison uniform and with a buzz haircut, images show Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in court by video link in part of an appeal against a defamation sentence imposed in February for insulting a World War II veteran. Another court is holding a hearing into a request from prosecutors that Navalny's regional network and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) be recognised as extremist, equating the organisations with the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda. IMAGES
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