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Added on the 19/07/2023 23:02:52 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
Shops shut early in northern Quito, Ecuador's capital, after hooded gunmen stormed a television studio and gangsters threatened to execute security forces and civilians. IMAGES
Christian Zurita, who was tapped at the last minute to take the place of Ecuador's slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, casts his vote wearing heavy protection. Ecuadorans head to the polls in a presidential election tarnished by the murder of a top candidate, which cast a spotlight on the violence ravaging a once-peaceful nation caught up in the illicit global drug trade. Ecuadorans head to the polls in a presidential election tarnished by the murder of a top candidate, which cast a spotlight on the violence ravaging a once-peaceful nation caught up in the illicit global drug trade. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
Images of vehicles burning and smoke rising outside the property of the fuel tanker owner after a group of Lebanese people attacked the site, following an explosion that killed at least 20 people and wounded nearly 80 others when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar. IMAGES TO COMPLETE WITH VIDI9L68PF_EN