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Eastern Ghouta: Bombarded by airstrikes and surrounded by regime forces, main rebel group agrees to lay down weapons

Regime forces pummel Deraa with rockets - monitoring group

Security forces patrol main gate of Ecuadorian National Assembly

Security forces patrol outside the main gate of Ecuadorian National Assembly after president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the Congress amidst impeachment proceedings over alleged corruption. In dissolving congress, Lasso also called upon the National Electoral Council (CNE) to call new elections. IMAGES

Security forces flush out Sri Lanka's main protest camp

Sri Lankan security forces raid the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Colombo, evicting activists gathered outside the president's office. The raid comes a day after veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe -- who vowed tough action against demonstrators -- was sworn in as the crisis-hit country's new president, replacing Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whom protesters forced to step down. Hundreds of soldiers remove barricades set up by protesters blocking the main gate of the Presidential Secretariat, which demonstrators had partly overrun earlier this month. IMAGES

NATO looks to put 'substantially more forces' on eastern flank

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says that NATO defence ministers tasked military commanders to come up with plans to bolster the alliance's eastern flank after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE