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Venezuelans living day by day are forced to brave the COVID-19 quarantine to search for fuel and water, queing at the few gas stations still open in Caracas and collecting water from fire hydrants in the street.
"Sometimes we wait for two hours and at the end we find out there is no water anymore," says young Gazan boy Ahmad Al Mulla as he fills two bottles of water at a mosque in Gaza City. In response to Hamas's deadly attack on 7 October, Israel has unleashed a relentless bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip that has flattened neighbourhoods, leaving survivors with dwindling supplies of food, water and fuel.
For the first time in a decade, Rio de Janeiro's beaches are safe for swimming.
More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries and backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters, were battling three major wildfires in Greece Sunday, two of which have been raging for days. A massive blaze in the country’s northeastern regions of Evros and Alexandroupolis, believed to have caused 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in the past week in Greece, was burning for a ninth day.
A 25km-long ‘super sewer’ is near completion in London after years of building work. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will divert water from drains which used to flood into the River Thames during heavy rainfall, making the waterway much cleaner for wildlife and river users. The infrastructure is being broadly welcomed by environmental groups, but sewage outflow is a nationwide problem which is going largely unchecked outside the capital. N°33P34QE
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