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Hong Kong, Jun 4 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jerome Favre) .- The Tiananmen massacre celebrated its 32nd anniversary on Friday with the usual silence in Beijing, while in Hong Kong the local police banned the annual vigil in memory of victims and detained an activist for promoting her on social media.FOOTAGE FROM THE VIGIL IN HONG KONG IN HONOR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE.
People gather outside Chinese Consulate General in Sydney, holding candles and placards to commemorate anniversary of Beijing's deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. IMAGES
This year marks the 26th anniversary of the June 4 protests in China, where an unknown number of student protesters were killed in a government-ordered crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square.
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, arrives to vote at the Russian embassy in Berlin thronged by supporter after calling for voters to spoil their ballots in protest at Russia's stage-managed presidential election. The election is set to hand President Vladimir Putin another six years in the Kremlin, with Navalny, Putin's most prominent critic, dead in opaque circumstances in an Arctic prison last month. IMAGES
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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