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Front row, L-R: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde, U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi pose for a family photo with other participants of the G7 summit during the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 27, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane de Sakutin/Pool
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Greenpeace activists unfurled on May 5 a banner on the Eiffel Tower protesting against far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. (AFP)
Security Concerns Raised after Greenpeace Unfurls Political Banner on Eiffel Tower
Greenpeace activists unfurled a political banner in broad daylight on the Eiffel Tower in Paris creating security concerns among the city’s police ahead of Sunday’s presidential elections. Paris’s police chief called emergency talks after a dozen activists from...Caption:
A 17 August 2012 file photo of Russian feminist punk-rock band Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (R) sitting in a glass-walled cage in a court room at the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow, Russia (EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV)
Russia passes amnesty bill, questions remain
Moscow, AP—Russia’s parliament on Wednesday passed an amnesty bill that will likely apply to the 30-member crew of a Greenpeace ship detained after an Arctic protest, but it wasn’t immediately clear if and when the activists would be allowed to leave the...Caption:
Photographer Denis Sinyakov of Russia stands in a defendants’ cage during a court session in St. Petersburg on November 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev)