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Images show a picket line in front of UCL hospital in London as junior doctors begin a 3-day strike over pay at the start of a week that will also see teachers, train staff and civil servants walk out in the lastest of a wave of UK industrial action. The strike by junior doctors -- who are not senior specialists but can still have decades of experience -- is the longest they have ever staged. The British Medical Association, the body representing them, says junior doctors have suffered a 26% real-terms paycut since 2008/09 and are demanding a 35% wage hike to combat this. IMAGES
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan are each welcomed to Rome by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The summit is the G20's first in-person gathering since the pandemic. IMAGES
Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
Belgrade residents under a coronavirus curfew protest against a government accused of authoritarianism by banging pots and blowing whistles and horns from their balconies. Activists say the noise-making is an effort to show their grievances won't be silenced by the coronavirus crisis. IMAGES
Emmanuel Macron exchanges with his G20 counterparts during a videoconference chaired by King Salman of Saudi Arabia. A virtual summit to try to provide a coordinated response to the coronavirus epidemic crisis. IMAGES
Iran Press broadcasts images presented as Iranian missiles being launched from western Kermanshah Province. Iran launched missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops early Wednesday in retaliation for last week's US drone strike that killed senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Hashed deputy chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. IMAGES
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