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Montevideo (Uruguay), Nov 9 (EFE).- Uruguay has approved a new law that regulates the use of transparent masks, which allow lipreading, in a bid to help people who have hearing problems to communicate. FOOTAGE OF MONTEVIDEO AND PEOPLE WEARING FACE MASKS.
Montevideo, May 14 (EFE) .- Hundreds of Uruguayans crowded the outside of the Legislative Palace on thursday to protest against the government despite isolations being recommended and many countries carrying out mandatory quarantine to curbe the coronavirus pandemic. Social organizations called to demonstrate against the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC), a package of more than 500 articles that include health, education, housing, security measures, and which was the government's flagship during the electoral campaign.The LUC is a mechanism in the Uruguayan Constitution that allows Executive Power to send a bill that it considers must be treated urgently and each chamber has 45 days to do so. (Camera: SANTIAGO CARBONE / RAUL MARTINEZ)FOOTAGE SHOWS PROTESTS IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY.
Rwanda jails the main leader of the opposition for treason and denying the genocide which scourged the country in the 1990s. Next, there are urgent calls for a reform of South Sudan's use of the death penalty as activists warn justice is not being served. Finally, China's manufacturers begin gravitating towards Africa as the low production costs become an irresistible draw.
The EU says it will drop action started against Poland six years ago over rule-of-law concerns that could have led Warsaw to lose its vote in the bloc's affairs. The European Commission said it intends to withdraw the procedure launched under Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union after Warsaw's new centrist government took steps to remedy the issues. SOUNDBITE
Thousands of Georgians take to the streets of capital Tbilisi in fresh rallies against the controversial "foreign influence" bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent. Demonstrators gathered in front of the Paragraph hotel belonging to the company of billionaire and the ruling party chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili, where a forum of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is taking place and in which members of the Georgian government are also participating. IMAGES
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