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French health minister, Brigitte Bourguignon, visits the residents of a nursing home in Poitiers, as France's record pre-summer heatwave spreads across the country. IMAGES
Hong Kong, Sep 19 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jerome Favre) The polls for voting restricted to the Hong Kong Electoral Committee closed on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. local time (10 a.m. GMT) with a record participation percentage: more than 80% of the 4,889 voters.FOOTAGE OF THE START OF VOTING IN THE CONVENTION CENTER DURING RESTRICTED VOTING TO THE HONG KONG ELECTORAL COMMITTEE.
Around 1,000 people gathered in two "yellow vest" protests in the French capital Paris in lower-than-expected numbers for the movement's hoped-for September comeback, later clashing with police who fired tear gas. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
Polls open in El Salvador with victory in the bag for incumbent President Nayib Bukele thanks to his no-holds-barred war on gangs that has slashed homicide rates in a violence-weary nation. IMAGES
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