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Smoke billows over Gaza City as fighting raged on unabated a day after the UN Security Council passed its first resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in the bloodiest ever Gaza war, sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. IMAGES
Images show Kyiv residents fleeing for safety as a drone flies over the city centre. AFP journalists in the Ukrainian capital heard explosions lasting 15 to 20 minutes, which followed on from an earlier series of attacks overnight. IMAGES
Images show heavy fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Soledar, where residents seek cover in basements as artillery fire roars through the streets. Soledar found itself on the path of Russian troops pushing to take over the Donetsk region, causing many of its residents to flee. IMAGES
Smoke billows on the horizon in the Ukrainian city of Rubizhne where fighting continues. Ukraine authorities say the region is facing "round the clock shelling" as Russian forces focus their assault on the east of the country. IMAGES
A family runs holding their child as they flee the Tayouneh neighbourhood of Beirut during intensive gunfire clashes that broke out following a Beirut rally organised by the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal movements to demand the dismissal of the lead investigator into last year's port blast. IMAGES
Hundreds of people arrive in Beni from the city of Mangina, in eastern DR Congo, after at least eight civilians were killed and another 20 reported missing on Friday, in the latest massacre blamed on a militia in the troubled region. IMAGES