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Added on the 24/05/2024 09:50:38 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Ground crew and members of the Royal Australian Air Force load packages of aid onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft in Port Moresby before heading to the site of a landslide at Mulitaka village in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province. IMAGES
Rescuers work to pull survivors from landslides triggered by pounding monsoon rains in India's southern coastal state of Kerala. The landslides have killed dozens, with hundreds more feared trapped under mud and debris. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives in Vanimo, a remote town in Papua New Guinea near the border with Indonesia, where he's set to meet the faithful at the esplanade in front of Holy Cross Cathedral. IMAGES
Pope Francis leaves Indonesia after delivering a message of religious unity in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, heading to Papua New Guinea for the second leg of an arduous 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific. IMAGES
Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape declares a 14-day state of emergency in the capital Port Moresby, after 15 people were killed in riots as crowds looted and burned shops, adding that more than 1,000 troops are on standby "to step in wherever necessary" under the emergency decree. SOUNDBITE