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Truckers are protesting in Bogota after the Colombian government announced an increase in the price of diesel for the next year and a half. Truckers are also protesting against insecurity on the roads, as they report an increase in robberies and attacks on the roads, putting both their lives and their goods at risk. IMAGES
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they seek to contain a spill stretching several kilometres. IMAGES
Fire rages at an asphalt storage facility of an oil refinery located on a road west of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. IMAGES
GreenPeace activists unfurled a huge banner with the image of Patrick Pouyanne on the facade of a shopping centre in La Defense, denouncing "the head of Greenpeace activists put up a banner on the facade of the CNIT shopping centre bearing the effigy of Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of TotalEnergies. The banner reads "Civil society is looking for the head of France's most polluting company, which is making billions at the expense of the planet and its people. If you have any information, please do not contact the government, which is its main accomplice"", as TotalEnergies prepared for another tense general meeting where shareholders were due to vote on climate issues and the reappointment of the CEO. IMAGES
Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE