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Added on the 01/08/2022 16:46:25 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Iraqi supporters of the Coordination Framework hold an anti-Sadr protest near the parliament occupied by Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr supporters. Sadr's supporters have been occupying parliament in the normally high-security Green Zone -- also home to government buildings and embassies -- since Saturday. They started their protest in response to the rival alliance's prime ministerial nomination. IMAGES
Demonstrators of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather at the end of a bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" district of government buildings and foreign embassies. The protest is in a new show of strength three days after storming parliament in a country mired in crises. IMAGES
Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition judicial reforms after it pushed through the "reasonability" clause, a key plank of its controversial reform package, sparking legal challenges and clashes on the streets. IMAGES
Israeli security forces push back demonstrators blocking a Tel Aviv highway, stepping up resistance to the hard-right government's judicial overhaul package opponents say threatens democracy. IMAGES
Israelis block a highway on the outskirts of Jerusalem during an anti-judicial reform protest the morning after Israel's parliament adopted in a first reading a controversial bill that would limit court powers, in a new offensive to push ahead with a judicial overhaul that has split the nation. IMAGES
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).