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Thailand's divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport on Tuesday morning, where he is greeted by cheering supporters. Thakisin returned from 15 years in exile, hours before a deadlocked parliament was due to vote for a new prime minister. IMAGES
The trial of Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, accused of spreading "fake" information, begins in a Moscow court. Yashin faces up to 10 years behind bars for denouncing President Vladimir Putin's offensive in Ukraine. He is accused of spreading false information about the Russian army under legislation introduced after Putin launched the operation in Ukraine. IMAGES
A helicopter takes off from a military airport, after the landing of Burkina's ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, following 8 years in exile. A convoy of vehicles is also seen leaving the site. IMAGES
Images of police in Dakar, Senegal's capital, advancing towards supporters of opposition figure and mayoral candidate Barthelemy Dias and firing tear gas. IMAGES
Clashes break out in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, as the appeal of Barthelemy Dias, a fierce opponent of the government and candidate for mayor of Dakar, awaits trial. Police fire tear gas at the supporters of Dias in the vicinity of the university. IMAGES
Managua,Jul 14 (EFE).- The cascade of arrests of assorted opposition political leaders in Nicaragua has motivated hundreds of dissidents and professionals to abandon the country or to remain abroad, less than four months before the presidential vote, when President Daniel Ortega, who has been in power continuously since 2007, will seek reelection.Opposition leaders, writers, journalists, physicians, attorneys, former contra rebels and their commanders, young people, laborers and peasants have all self-exiled or delayed their returns to Nicaragua due to reasons of personal safety amid a hostile political environment in which they could find themselves in prison, many of them have confirmed through various channels. (Camera: RENÉE LUCÍA RAMOS). B-ROLL OF THE BUS TERMINAL IN MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.
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