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Dozens of abortion rights supporters rally against a Texas judge's decision to reverse the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, DC. On Friday, the nation's highest court temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. IMAGES
New Yorkers gather to advocate for abortion rights, a week after a leaked draft opinion showed the US Supreme Court's conservative majority is considering overturning Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 ruling guaranteeing abortion access nationwide. IMAGES
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
Tokyo, Jun 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Franck Robichon) Protesters on Saturday staged a protest in support of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong on the second anniversary of the start of the protests against the extradition bill to China that started the Hong Kong protest movement in 2019.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN TOKYO.
The spokeswoman for Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says that violence is escalating across Myanmar, warning that the country has plunged into a "human rights catastrophe" since the February 1 coup. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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