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Havana, Jul 15 (EFE), (CAMERA: Felipe Borrego) .- Most social networks and messaging platforms remain blocked Thursday in the mobile internet service in Cuba, four days after massive anti-government protests shook the country.
Havana, Jul 13 (EFE).- Cuba's foreign minister on Tuesday described the massive anti-government protests that took place two days ago as "riots," and said that they were financed by the United States while attributing the mobile internet blackout throughout the island to the economic crisis the country is facing."The country is experiencing a complex situation these days. Our people's access to information is a right. It is clear that there are complex conditions that are reflected not only in the right to information, they are reflected in the right to food. We are going through difficulties," Bruno Rodríguez said at a press conference in Havana.Shortly after protests began to spread across the country on Sunday amid a severe economic and health crisis, mobile internet service was disabled and still not working Tuesday. (Camera: FELIPE BORREGO).SHOT LIST: CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRIGUEZ PARRILLA OFFERS A PRESS CONFERENCE, IN HAVANA, CUBA. SOUND BITES: CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRIGUEZ PARRILLA (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: 1. The country is experiencing a complex situation these days. All of you are experiencing it. We all are experience it. Our people's access to information is a right. It is clear that there are complex conditions that are reflected not only in the right to information, they are reflected in the right to food. 2. These days there has been a lack of electricity that is also affecting the functioning of networks, nodes, servers and telecommunications.
Bogota, May 24 (EFE) .- Protesters placed funeral wreaths in the Plaza de Bolivar during a protest in support of the motion to censure Defense Minister of Colombia, Diego Molano, in front of the National Capitol in Bogota.The Colombian Congress is debating this Monday a motion to censure the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, for the numerous complaints of police violence and human rights violations committed by the State during the National Strike demonstrations that began on April 28. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ)SHOT LIST: PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOLIO NACIONAL OF BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
Istanbul, March 25 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Dozens of protesters from the Uyghur community, a Muslim minority in northwest China, residing in Turkey, protested in Istanbul over the critical situation experienced by their families, mainly in the western region of Xinjiang, and due to the lack of news of several of them, of whom they do not even know their whereabouts.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN ISTANBUL.
Beijing, Aug 18 (EFE).- The bans announced by the President of the United Sates Donald Trump on Chinese social networks TikTok and WeChat have triggered a wave of uncertainty for the two companies with speculation over multi-million dollar losses, forced sales, legal challenges and possible retaliation. On Aug. 7 Trump signed a presidential order to ban "transactions" - as yet unspecified - with the two applications and their developers ByteDance and Tencent, effective in 45 days. The order cited national security threats over the alleged capture of personal data by the apps that could be shared with the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok had become of the biggest global success story of the Chinese tech sector in recent years, while Tencent is a digital giant on its own with an estimated net worth of over $695 billion. The impending bans could affect the two ventures in different ways. (Camera: WU HONG).B-ROLL OF TENCENT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN BEIJING, CHINA.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).