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Added on the 15/05/2024 03:14:23 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Residents of the southern city of Sderot board buses to evacuate to safer areas in Israel amid ongoing war against Hamas. Situated on the front lines near the Gaza border, Sderot was overrun by Hamas militants in their surprise attack on October 7 and is used to being targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. 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
Images show smoldering flames and roads packed with traffic as wildfires break out in West Kelowna, Canada. In British Columbia an evacuation order had already been put in place for the city, which was already under threat as more than 1,000 wildfires burn in the country as of Thursday. IMAGES
Helicopters drop water bombs in a bid to quell a wildfire near Cape Town's Table Mountain which has spread to University of Cape Town campus and engulfed numerous buildings. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives in Vanimo, a remote town in Papua New Guinea near the border with Indonesia, where he's set to meet the faithful at the esplanade in front of Holy Cross Cathedral. IMAGES