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Athens, Sep 24 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Yannis Chryssoverghis).- Hundreds of students took to the streets if Athens on Thursday demanding more resources to fight the pandemic while healthcare workers joined a national 24-hour strike.Since the pandemic began, Greece has recorded 16,286 coronavirus cases and 363 deaths.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS.SOUNDBITES OF: -Vasilis, student: "In Petroupoli we are in a container school, with classrooms of 36 square meters, each student corresponds to one meter and a half square metre and we are 24 people in each class. We can't continue like this and that is why we protest."-Manolis Vardakis, nurse at Thriasio hospital intensive care unit: "At Thriasio there were already 260 vacant positions before the pandemic. In the coming weeks, 45 people will be fired and we demand that the dismissals are revoked."
Beirut (Lebanon), Dec 14 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Wael Hamzeh).- Students and supporters of the Amal Movement gathered on Monday in front of the Ministry of Education in Beirut to protest against the rise in tuition fees. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN BEIRUT, LEBANON.
Bangkok (Thailand), 14 Aug (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Narong Sangnak/Diego Azubel).- Thai police on Friday arrested the third organizer of the student movement which has held protests since July to demand democratic reform and reduction in the power enjoyed by the military and monarchy in the country. Activist Parit Chaiwarak faces charges of violating the state of emergency decree imposed by the government to combat the Covid-19 pandemic as well as sedition, which carry sentences of up to seven years in prison. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE THAI GOVERNMENT IN THAILAND.
Pro-Palestinian protests continue on the campus of Columbia University. Since last Monday, dozens of students and alumni have come together to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is waging war against militant group Hamas. They are demanding Columbia divest from companies with ties to Israel. IMAGES
Students from across Greece protest in Athens against the planned introduction of private universities, a reform that has riled the country's higher education community. IMAGES
Guatemalan police arrive to remove roadblocks set up by Indigenous groups to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who they accuse of plotting a "coup d'état" against the president-elect, Bernardo Arevalo. IMAGES
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