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Added on the 25/04/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Havana, Jul 12 (EFE).- Cubans woke on Monday to a tense calm, with no Internet service for mobile devices and a heavy police presence on the streets of Havana a day after thousands of citizens took to the streets to protest against the government amid an acute economic and health crisis.The data "blackout" is making it difficult to know for certain what is happening around the country, but by 3 pm no new demonstrations had been reported and no images of protests had hit the social networks. (Camera: FELIPE BORREGO).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF HAVANA, CUBA, A DAY AFTER A MASSIVE PROTEST.
Massive crowds gather in Istanbul for an International Labour Day rally, as many in Turkey demonstrate ahead of the May 14 elections. Workers, trade unions and parties march en masse to the Labour Day rally zone in Maltepe, with some tensions erupting between demonstrators and police as people tried to enter the rally zone. IMAGES
Police and demonstrators continue clashing on day 12 of a fuel price revolt in Ecuador, that has claimed six lives and injured dozens. An estimated 14,000 protesters are taking part in the mass show of discontent countrywide against rising hardship in an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Demonstrators clash with police on a main road in Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
Images of police in PPE and a street in Shanghai as the city records a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday. Millions are enduring a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half confined to their homes for four days and subjected to mandatory testing. China reported 6,886 domestic Covid cases nationwide on Tuesday, with more than 4,400 of them detected in Shanghai, now the centre of the country's worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. IMAGES