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River rescues and barbed wire: a day at the US-Mexico border
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» EAGLE PASS (UNITED STATES) - The sun had barely risen above Eagle Pass, Texas, when the migrants wading across the Rio Grande from Mexico had a crisis on their hands.
Indian farmers block highways nationwide
Bloomberg and Reuters, Published on 06/02/2021
» Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have blocked highways across the country in defiance of the government’s internet and phone blackout, facing off against a heavy security deployment stationed behind rows of razor wire and concrete blocks.
Indian farmers dig in for reform protests
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» KUNDLI, India: Behind concertina wire and trucks blockading a major highway into India's capital, tens of thousands of farmers are camping out in the bitter winter cold as they protest against agriculture reforms they fear could destroy their livelihood.
India slams international interference in Kashmir after clashes
AFP, Published on 17/08/2019
» SRINAGAR (INDIA) - Hundreds of protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir clashed with police Friday as New Delhi seethed at a rare UN Security Council meeting about the disputed Muslim-majority region -- the first in nearly 50 years.
US troops limited to batons on Mexico border
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» WASHINGTON - US troops stationed on the border with Mexico ahead of the expected arrival of a Central American migrant caravans can intervene to quell violence but will be armed only with batons, Defense Minister Jim Mattis said on Wednesday.
US Army unfurls barbed fencing along border with Mexico
AFP, Published on 19/11/2018
» LAREDO, Texas, US: They started work in the cool of the morning and moved quickly, uncoiling reel after reel of vicious-looking fencing and tying it with barbed wire to green poles hammered into the ground.