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Police try to control protesters outside of Argentina's Congress in Buenos Aires, after the country's lower chamber of deputies gave overall approval to President Javier Milei's reform bill in a vote, paving the way for a decisive vote in the Senate. IMAGES
Emergency services clear rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on Damascus that killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Israeli strike in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alleges violations of international law as Israel pounds Gaza, and urges an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to bring in relief. "I am deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza. Let me be clear: No party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law," Guterres tells a Security Council session, without explicitly naming Israel. SOUNDBITE
Volunteers and residents help clear up the locality of Mucum after a cyclone triggered devastating floods and landslides in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul. At least 42 people have died and some 150,000 people have been affected by the cyclone, many of whom have lost their homes or face isolation from landslides that washed away roads and bridges. IMAGES
City workers clear the debris after Storm Poly hit Amsterdam this morning, causing major disruption and closing public transport and highways. All trains, buses and trams were stopped and 400 flights from Schiphol were cancelled as a result of the region's strongest summer storm on record. Fallen trees closed roads and damaged power lines and an Amsterdam tram collided with a delivery van at the height of the storm. Police say one person has been killed. IMAGES
Cranes work to clear the carriages off the tracks the day after two trains derailed as stormy winds lashed northwestern Switzerland, with police confirming that fifteen people were injured in the accident. The incidents, on regional passenger rail lines, took place within 20 minutes of each other, and about 30 kilometres (18 miles) apart, north of the Swiss capital Bern. IMAGES