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Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Berlin, Aug 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Filip Singer) Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion on Friday staged a protest in front of the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, to ask the formation for faster and more effective action in the fight against the climate crisis.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
Geneva (Switzerland), Jul 23 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Broto) Around a hundred Cubans demonstrated on Friday in front of the UN European headquarters in Geneva to ask the United Nations High Commissioner for Rights Humans, Michelle Bachelet, a "humanitarian intervention" in her country, affected by the COVID pandemic and the economic crisis.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN THE SQUARE OF THE NATIONS (IN FRONT OF THE UN HEADQUARTERS IN GENEVA).
A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine burst in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, devastating a nearby town with mudslides. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Hundreds of people gather in front of parliament in Indonesia's capital Jakarta to protest alleged interference in last month's presidential elections, which saw Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto win a majority with more than two-thirds of the vote. IMAGES
Images showing the site in Mali where a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed, killing at least 70 people according to local sources. IMAGES