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Bangkok, Feb 2 (EFE/EPA).- Myanmar protesters gathered on Tuesday for a protest against the Myanmar military coup, outside the United Nations building in the Thai capital, Bangkok. Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and other top political leaders have been detained after a raid in a military coup due to a tension rising between civilian government and the military disputed from the November 2020 elections results. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL). SHOT LIST: A PROTEST AGAINST THE MYANMAR MILITARY COUP OUTSIDE THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
A woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after plowing her car into a Manhattan protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Newser reports 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was driving with her 29-year-old daughter when she said demonstrators began banging on her BMW. Demonstrators were protesting in support of ICE detainees on hunger strike. Casillo says she panicked and hit the gas. Six people have hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. A demonstrator was charged for allegedly interfering with emergency workers responding to the scene.
Colombo, Jul 8 (EFE/EPA).- Members of 'Women's Movement for Freedom' Sri Lankan civil rights activists group on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Labour Secretariat at Narahenpita in Colombo. 'Women's Movement for Freedom' Sri Lankan civil rights activists group staged a protest claiming the government was lethargic in bringing back the Sri Lankan migrant workers currently stranded in the Middle Eastern countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Hemamali Abeyratne, National Organizer of Women's Movement for Freedom, more than 1,200,000 Sri Lankans are employed in the Middle East, and 30 people have already died and three committed suicide due to COVID-19. However, with travel between Covid-19 pandemic hit countries gradually opening up and even before the Sri Lankan government has been bringing back overseas workers and students into the island in small numbers, carrying out PCR tests on arrival, sending them to quarantine centers and providing medical attention to those infected. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE). SHOT LIST: SRI LANKAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS GROUP HOLD PORTRAITS OF SRI LANKAN COVID-19 VICTIMS IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES DURING A PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE LABOUR SECRETARIAT AT NARAHENPITA IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
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
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers stage violent protests to demand a near-tripling of their wages, shuttering hundreds of garment factories in the country. IMAGES
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).