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Added on the 09/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
Hundreds of thousands fill the streets of a sun-baked Zurich ready to party in the Swiss city's annual techno Street Parade, after a two-year absence due to the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
A helicopter takes off from a military airport, after the landing of Burkina's ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, following 8 years in exile. A convoy of vehicles is also seen leaving the site. IMAGES
"I'm grateful that Robert Sylvester Kelly is away and will stay away and will not be able to harm anyone else", says Lizzette Martinez, a victim of R. Kelly after the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex. SOUNDBITE
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the self-exiled Belarusian opposition figure leading a campaign against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, reacts in an interview with AFP to news of her husband being sentenced to 18 years in jail after galvanising an unprecedented protest movement. SOUNDBITE