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Added on the 25/11/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Washington DC, Apr 27 (EFE/EPA).- A group of so-called "Dreamers" participated on Monday in a caravan of vehicles that toured the surroundings of the Supreme Court and the United States Congress in Washington DC, asking for the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.DACA prevents the deportation of thousands of young undocumented immigrants, and the survival of the program is in the hands of the court.A fabric poster reading "Home is Here" was displayed by two young people in front of the headquarters of the Supreme Court, the work of which is done virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Camera: EDWIN RAMIREZ).SHOTLIST: PARTICIPANTS HOLD A SIGN THAT READS 'HOME IS HERE' OUTSIDE THE US SUPREME COURT; AS PART OF A DEMONSTRATION HELD BY IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES AND 'DREAMERS' DRIVING A PROCESSION OF VEHICLES AROUND THE SUPREME COURT AND US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN WASHINGTON, DC, USA.
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
A long line of people snakes across a park in Washington, DC, at a makeshift Covid-19 test site near the White House, as people prepare for holiday festivities, just a few days away. IMAGES
Bali, Aug 5 (EFE/EPA).-The Indonesian economy came out of recession in the second quarter of the year with a year-on-year growth of over 7 percent despite facing, since June, its worst wave of the coronavirus pandemic, whose negative impact is likely to be more noticeable in the coming quarters.The country's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 7.07 percent year-on-year between April and June and increased by 3.31 percent over the first quarter of the year, which is the first GDP growth in five quarters, the country's statistics bureau, Statistics Indonesia, locally known as BPS, announced on Thursday.(cAmera: MADE NAGI)SHOT LIST: EMPTY BEACHES IN BALI, INDONESIA.
Colombo, Jul 29 (EFE/EPA).-Sri Lankan health workers wearing protective gear performed Thursday COVID -19 swab tests in Colombo.Sri Lanka is currently in the midst of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the number of cases is increasing day by day. Sri Lanka has so far recorded a total of 301,832 COVID-19 cases with 4,258 deaths while a total of 8,718,433 people have received the first dose of the vaccine and 1,994,384 have already received the second one.(Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS CARRY OUT COVID-19 SWAB TESTS IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.