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Gang violence in strife-torn Haiti is expanding at "an alarming rate" in areas previously considered quite safe, the UN envoy to the country tells a Security Council meeting. "The horrific violence in gang-ridden areas, including sexual violence, particularly against women and girls, is emblematic of the terror afflicting much of Haiti's population," says Maria Isabel Salvador. SOUNDBITE
A rescue team is on the site where a huge boulder detached from the Marmolada glacier in Italy's northern Alps, causing an avalanche that killed at least five people and injured eight others, according to a provisional toll from the rescue services. IMAGES
Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region is under "blockade", the World Health Organization chief says, warning that people are starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. "People are dying because of lack of supplies," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, tells reporters from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. SOUNDBITE
"Work, consume and shut up": about 200 demonstrators protest in the third arrondissement of Paris against a new coronavirus lockdown. IMAGES
A small group of people gather in Maria Hernandez Park for a Black Lives Matter protest, and listen to a speech by Paperboy Prince, nonbinary activist and rapper who made a Democratic primary bid for New York's 7th Congressional District. IMAGES