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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
As French President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Pedro Sanchez ink a Franco-Spanish friendship treaty in Barcelona, thousands of pro-independence groups march towards the city's French Consulate in protest of the meet, shouting: "Independence!" and waving separatist flags. IMAGES
Barcelona, ??Sep 24 (EFE).- (Camera: EFE). Several hundred people have gathered this morning in the vicinity of the Italian consulate in Barcelona, ??guarded by a strong Mossos d'Esquadra device, in protest at the arrest of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in Sardinia.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE CONSULATE OF ITALY IN BARCELONA, SPAIN.
Barcelona (Spain), ??Jul 28 (EFE).- Some 100 people summoned by the Marea Blanca organization gathered on Wednesday in front of the regional Parliament in Barcelona to demand the withdrawal of the reserve measures taken due to the fifth wave of Covid-19, which could limit health professionals when it comes to caring for patients with other types of ailments.Demonstrations protested their discomfort and asked for their holidays to be respected and more staff. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters at a press briefing that the latest US sanctions against Cuba will not be the "sum total" of punitive measures against Havana. The US has imposed sanctions on Cuba's defense minister and an interior ministry division for repressing peaceful protests. SOUNDBITE