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Brussels, Oct 7 (EFE / EPA) .- The European Trade Union Confederation organized Thursday a rally in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels to demand decent jobs for digital platform workers such as Uber and Deliveroo.(Camera: LEO RODRÍGUEZ)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE PROTEST OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.SOUND BITES: LUDOVIC VOET, SECRETARY OF THE EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (IN ENGLISH).
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls for building "a European Health Union" in her first State of the EU address to MEPs. SOUNDBITE
Belgian prosecutors have opened a probe into Russian "interference" in the European Parliament following allegations lawmakers were paid to spread Kremlin propaganda, Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says. "Our judicial authorities have now confirmed this interference is subject to prosecution," De Croo said. "The cash payments did not take place in Belgium, but the interference does. As Belgium is the seat of the EU institutions, we have a responsibility to uphold every citizen's right to a free and safe vote." SOUNDBITE
The bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a Gaza strike are transported out of the war-torn Palestinian territory via Egypt as Israel faced a chorus of outrage over their deaths. Israeli bombardment killed seven staff of the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen on Monday in an attack that UN chief Antonio Guterres labelled "unconscionable" and "an inevitable result of the way the war is being conducted". IMAGES
Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES
The EU is to better protect journalists from political interference under an unprecedented media freedom law adopted by the European Parliament. The legislation, backed in a vote by 464 EU lawmakers, with 92 against and 65 abstaining, also enshrines editorial independence and seeks to improve transparency on media ownership. IMAGES
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