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Campaign group Avaaz, as part of the 'People's Vaccine Campaign', creates sand art on a Cornish beach calling on world leaders to waive Covid vaccine patents to enable better access for the world's poorest people. G7 leaders are meeting some 30 miles down the coast in Carbis Bay. IMAGES
Kiev (Ukraine), Oct 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko) Dozens of activists protested in Kiev on Tuesday to ask the European Union to temporarily cancel patents for COVID-19 vaccines to increase the global access to them. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST OF TENS OF ACTIVISTS IN KIEV ASKING THE EU TO SUSPEND THE PATENTS ON COVID-19 VACCINES, AND THUS EXPAND THEIR GLOBAL ACCESS.
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
Shops and schools reopen in Nairobi as Kenyans go about their daily lives, despite an opposition call for anti-government protests after earlier demonstrations prompted widespread closures and deadly clashes. IMAGES
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES