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British runner Russ Cook crosses the finish line, concluding a 16,000km charity challenge to run the length of Africa from South Africa's Cape Agulhas to Cape Angela in Tunisia. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VID_34NU3GV_EN
Several roads are blocked by gendarmes in the French town of Douvres, as a man is shot by French tactical units after killing a family of five, including three children. IMAGES
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
Mizoram, Oct 14 (EFE/EPA).- When Tial Hnin, a Burmese refugee in India, learned about a gunfight between guerrillas and the Myanmar Army back home, the first thing he did was to contact his two sons, who joined a revolutionary rebel group.The assistant professor at the University of Hakha, the capital of the Chin region in Myanmar, fled to the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram on Sep 10, after the military regime intensified the crackdown on civilians to suppress an anti-coup uprising.His two sons joined a civil militia, known as the Chinland Defense Force, one of the groups fighting the Myanmar military after the Feb.1 coup. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: INTERVIEW WITH BURMESE REFUGEES IN THINGSAI VILLAGE, MIZORAM STATE, NEAR THE INDIA-MYANMAR BORDER. SOUND BITES: TIAL HNIN, A BURMESE REFUGEE IN INDIA; SUNG KI, WIFE OF TIAL HNIN; AND CHAN MYAE LWIN, ARCHITECT WORKING IN LUNGLER & THANTLANG TOWNS IN CHIN STATE (IN BURMESE). TRANSLATION: 1. TIAL HNIN, A BURMESE REFUGEE IN INDIA -We all worked very hard for making Myanmar a democratic state, and then just in a flash, it disappeared, I knew my sons have to stick around, stick around for the cause of democracy, they have to prove to themselves, prove it to whomever, that there is a cause to fight for. 2. SUNG KI, WIFE OF TIAL HNIN -We were physically, mentally tired. We were exhausted from running and refugee camps, being on high alert constantly. And now it looks the same, there's nowhere safe for us in Myanmar. 3.CHAN MYAE LWIN, ARCHITECT WORKING IN LUNGLER & THANTLANG TOWNS IN CHIN STATE, MYANMAR-We sought refuge here, I know New Ngharchhip is a small village with only around 100 household, how long can they provide us food. I don't know when I can go back and rebuild my career, I have just learned that my family back in Myanmar are safe at this moment, but for how long? I don't know.
Trapagaran, Jul 15 (EFE).- Hundreds of residents in the Spanish town of Trapagaran demonstrated Thursday afternoon against the occupation of the house of an 85-year-old neighbor.At the end of last June, several people occupied the house, located at 32 Funicular Street, while the man who had lived there since 1956 was at the home of a daughter due to health problems. (Camera: EFE).SHOT LIST: A GROUP OF RESIDENTS DEMONSTRATE NEAR THE HOUSE OF THE 85-YEAR-OLD MAN IN TRAPAGARAN, SPAIN.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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