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Jalalabad, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- Militants killed five health workers and wounded four in a series of attacks on anti-polio teams in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.The officials said the attacks took place in Surkhrod and Khogyani districts and Jalalabad city of the volatile province a day after the national immunization campaign against the virus kicked off in the country.Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said the gunmen attacked health workers during “their life-saving work” in five locations in Nangarhar province. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE HELP TRANSFER THE BODY OF ONE OF THE POLIO VACCINATION WORKERS WHO WAS KILLED IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
Protesters gather in Los Angeles to demand an end to anti-Asian violence in one of some 60 rallies taking place in cities across the US, less than two weeks after a shooter killed six women of Asian descent at spas near Atlanta. IMAGES
New Yorkers march against anti-Asian violence in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, as rallies are held in cities across the US 11 days after a shooter killed six women of Asian descent at spas near Atlanta. IMAGES
Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling is the state's voting systems manager. And according to Business Insider, the Republican has had more than enough of President Donald Trump and GOP senators. In a fiery press conference Tuesday, Sterling a Republican, urged them to 'stop inspiring potential acts of violence' against election workers. He said a young contractor with an election vendor, Dominion Voting Systems, has faced threats and harassment for completing basic tech tasks. Sterling tore into the president and local lawmakers for not showing any leadership and of being 'complicit' in the harassment of election workers. Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right. Gabriel Sterling, Voting Systems Manager Georgia Secretary of State's Office
Women rally in Istanbul to denounce gender-based violence, on the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. IMAGES