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Manila, Jul 23 (EFE/EPA).- Members of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines held a protest on Friday to stop the persecution and repression of church workers as Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to give his last State of the Nation Address on 26 July 2021. (Camera: MARK CRISTINO). SHOT LIST: PROTEST AGAINST HARASSMENT OF CHURCH WORKERS IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a virtual emergency summit of G7 leaders alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the large-scale Russian bombardment of Ukrainian territory the previous day. IMAGES
Images of the regional administration building in Mykolaiv that was hit by a Russian strike. The governor of the region Vitaly Kim said that most people inside the building had not been injured but several civilians and soldiers were unaccounted for. IMAGES
The United States accuses Russia of mounting the latest wave of cyberattacks in Ukraine, including against banks. "We believe the Russian government is responsible for widespread cyberattacks on Ukrainian banks this week," Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber threats, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE