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Activists from a Hindu religious group hold placards and pictures of US singer Rihanna and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during a demonstration in New Delhi, after both made comments on social media about ongoing mass farmers' protests in India. The celebrity tweets triggered an online storm in India, where the protests have become the biggest challenge to Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took power in 2014. IMAGES
Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel block a highway to prevent farmers from marching towards New Delhi during a protest demanding minimum crop prices, at the Haryana-Punjab state border in Shambhu near Ambala about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital. IMAGES
Indian riot police fired tear gas Wednesday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded roadblocks and march on the capital to demand guaranteed crop prices. IMAGES
New Delhi, Feb 2 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of farmers on Tuesday continued protests in the Indian capital, New Delhi, to demand the repeal of three controversial agricultural laws passed by Parliament last September. (Camera: RAJAT GUPTA). SHOT LIST: FARMERS' PROTEST IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Mumbai, Jan 25 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of tractors are set to queue up on Tuesday on roads of the Indian capital as part of a show of force by farmers' groups protesting against three "anti-farmer" laws liberalizing the agrarian sector, a stir which will coincide with the official Republic Day celebrations. The main march in Delhi will be supported by thousands of demonstrations across India.The notable ones include a massive farmers' march in Mumbai, India's financial epicenter and capital of the western state of Maharashtra. (Camera: DIVYAKANT SOLANKI)SHOT LIST: FARMERS PROTESTING IN MUMBAI, INDIA.
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).