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(CNN ) Angela Barnes knows that the public service announcement she directed with a group of Atlanta exotic dancers urging people to vote is stirring conversation, but she wonders why she had to come up with the idea. "It's killing me that somebody hasn't done this before me, like: why?" she told CNN. "It was easy to figure out and I have no background in politics or marketing. So why is it so viral? Why is because, in general, black people are ignored and taken for granted."
Police try to extinguish vehicles on fire outside Guerrero State Prosecutor's Office during a demonstration over the death of a student from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college at the hands of the police. The demonstration takes place against a backdrop of flaring tensions over the case of 43 students from the same college who went missing nearly a decade ago. IMAGES
Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, and his supporters march to 10 Downing Street in London to call for his release after a British High Court heard a last-ditch bid by the jailed WikiLeaks founder to appeal his extradition to the US to face espionage charges. Washington indicted Assange multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over WikiLeaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMAGES
Images of what appears to be Donald Trump's motorcade arriving at the New York courthouse. Trump is expected in court ahead of a trial for illegally covering up hush money payments made to hide extramarital affairs, including with porn star Stormy Daniels. The hearing in New York will see Trump's legal team attempt to have the case thrown out. IMAGES
Hundreds of protestors gather outside the UN office in Bangkok on the third anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar. IMAGES
A convoy of vehicles with tinted windows enters the courtyard of Matignon. The new French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, spoke with Emmanuel Macron earlier in the day, while the composition of the government is expected later in the afternoon. IMAGES