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Lhasa, Oct 23 (EFE/EPA).- China will lift 5 million people who still live below the poverty line above the threshold before the end of the year, Chinese Poverty Reduction Office Deputy Director Hou Yongjian said recently in an interview with EFE during a government-organized trip to Tibet.(Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA)SHOT LIST: CLOSE UPS OF PEOPLE FROM A RESETTLEMENT CENTER FOR THE POOR IN SOUTHERN TIBET, SPA IN WHICH RHEUMATIC PATIENTS AND WITH BONE DISEASES ARE TREATED, A SCHOOL NEAR LHASA WHERE CHILDREN TAKEN OUT OF POVERTY ARE RELOCATED AND THE POTALA PALACE IN LHASA, TIBET.
A small crowd gathers in Malmo, Sweden, for a rally in support of Israel as the country's Eurovision Song Contest entry - Eden Golan - takes to the stage for the competition's second semi-final. Earlier in the day, thousands of people demonstrated against Israel's participation in the event over its offensive in Gaza. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin takes part in a ceremony in tribute to Stephanie Monferme, a police officer who was fatally stabbed in the entrance of the Rambouillet police station, near Paris, in April 2021 by a Tunisian delivery driver, who was subsequently shot dead by a police officer. IMAGES
The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Gabriel Attal, France's new Prime Minister and the country's youngest ever, sees his appointment as a symbol of "boldness and action". The thirty-four years old head of government speaks at the handover ceremony with his predecessor Elisabeth Borne. SOUNDBITE
Israel's Iron Dome system intercepts rockets as revellers ring in the new year on a street in Tel Aviv. Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday as both sides near the end of a dark year and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack will last for "many months". IMAGES