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Upper Barrakka Gardens - Valletta - Malta - Europe
Added on the 05/01/2012 - Copyright : GUILLY
Smoke billows above the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel after a rocket was fired from southern Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged deadly fire following a rocket attack on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children over the weekend and sent regional tensions soaring. IMAGES
Israeli Merkava battle tanks are deployed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. Hamas launched a salvo of rockets from south Lebanon towards Israel Tuesday, prompting Israeli attacks on Hezbollah positions, in the third consecutive day of cross-border tensions. IMAGES
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, visits Kew Gardens in London as part of his official visit to the UK. Ramaphosa is greeted by UK Environment minister, Therese Coffey, and discusses biodiversity a day after he urged rich nations to help protect vulnerable ones from climate change. The South African leader's state visit is the first of King Charles III's reign. IMAGES
All present 159 members of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, vote in favour of President Vladimir Putin's decision to introduce martial law into the Ukrainian territories Moscow claims to have annexed. IMAGES