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(18 Jun 2025)

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++THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC PHOTOS THAT SHOW MAN BEING SHOT++

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Nairobi - 17 June 2025

1. STILL Kenyan policeman, center, jumping from a vehicle moments before running and shooting a man who appeared to be a vendor, not pictured, during a protest

2. STILL Kenyan policeman, right, starts to run toward a man who appeared to be a vendor, not pictured, before shooting him during a protest

3. STILL Kenyan policeman firing his weapon during a protest

4. STILL Kenyan police speak to a man who appeared to be a vendor before one of the policemen, left, shot him during a protest

5. STILL Kenyan policeman, center, prepares to shoot a man who appeared to be a vendor, left, during a protest

6. Various STILLS Kenyan policeman, center, shoots a man who appeared to be a vendor, left, during a protest ++GRAPHIC CONTENT++

7. STILL Kenyan policeman, left, walks away next to a colleague moments after shooting a man who appeared to be a vendor

STORYLINE:

An Associated Press photographer captured the shooting of a civilian by a Kenyan police officer in the head at close range on Tuesday, during the latest protest against the country’s deadly and pervasive issue of police brutality.

It happened on one of Nairobi's busiest streets, again outraging many Kenyans, who have long witnessed officers shooting or beating protesters and others.

Tuesday’s shooting was rare because the officer fired in full view of journalists.

The AP is publishing the photos despite their graphic nature because they show evidence of a police shooting of a civilian.

The man who was shot appeared to be a vendor, not a protester — he fell holding a packet of face masks he was selling.

The photos show officers jumping off a vehicle, with guns.

An officer wearing a face mask fires his gun in the direction of protesters, who are outside the frame of the photo.

The same officer and a colleague run over to the vendor.

It's not clear why they approached him, guns drawn, or what was said.

The officers push at the man, who raises his hands toward his face.

As he is shoved and moves away, the man glances back.

The officer raises his weapon and shoots at him. The man crumples to the sidewalk.

After the shooting, the officer and his colleague walk away.

The man survived, according to a spokesperson at the Nairobi hospital where he and several others hurt during the protest were taken.

He was not the only one with a gunshot wound, but he quickly came to represent them all.

A senior health ministry official, Patrick Amoth, told local media later Tuesday that the man — still unidentified — was in surgery, with a bed on standby in intensive care.

For decades, Kenya's police officers have been accused of extrajudicial killings during protests or with the aim of silencing critics.

Watchdog groups in Nairobi keep tallies.

Multiple officials have vowed to rein it in.

Tuesday’s protest was over the death in police custody ear... [truncated]

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Taftan, Balochistan, Pakistan - 18 June 2025

++Night Shots++

1. Various of Pakistani families entering Pakistan at Taftan border crossing with Iran

2. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, Pakistani national: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3-5++

“My friend, manager and Iranian police have advised me to leave with my family as soon as possible today, as the situation is becoming dangerous in district 3 after some tweets by Netanyahu regarding an attack. I don’t know, they just informed me something about that. So I left that area and went to the Pakistan embassy. We left everything behind as we are family members, and we carried one bag containing some necessities and some food items. We are five family members, but we carried just one bag; we just left and left everything else there.”

3. Border entry gate with Iranian flags

4. Pakistani students arriving

5. Wide shot of Pakistani nationals sitting around with luggage

6. Families at the immigration counter inside Pakistan

7. Family sitting on chairs

8. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, Pakistani national: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT6 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT7&PARTIALLY BY SHOT 9++

“When we were sleeping at night, we would feel like there was a bombing going on somewhere, but their defence system was working. But still, we were hearing sounds. We were afraid all night and for almost three nights we didn’t sleep at all.”

9. Various of students at immigration counter

STORYLINE:

More than 300 Pakistani families, students and pilgrims arrived at the Taftan land border crossing with Iran in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Pakistani authorities said.

Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran is contacting and organising evacuations for citizens who want to leave Iran because of the conflict with Israel.

Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, a Pakistani national working in the telecom sector, left Tehran along with his wife and three children.

The journeys from Tehran take up to 12 hours by road to reach the formal border crossings.

Others are making their own way out.

Pakistan says the repatriations are voluntary, and nobody is being forced to go.

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Los Angeles - 9 June 2025

1. Tyler Perry at the BET Awards

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New York - 5 May 2025

2. Tyler Perry at the MET Gala

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New York - 18 March 2025

3. Medium Tyler Perry at "Duplicity" premiere

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Beverly Hills, California - 3 December 2024

4. Tyler Perry posing at Paleyfest event honoring him

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Los Angeles - 26 October 2022

11. Medium, zoom out to wide, Tyler Perry at "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" premiere

STORYLINE:

An actor who worked on the Tyler Perry-created TV drama “The Oval” has filed a lawsuit alleging Perry leveraged his industry power to repeatedly sexually assault and harass him while keeping him quiet.

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by actor Derek Dixon, who appeared on 85 episodes of the BET series, seeks at least $260 million in damages.

“Mr. Perry took his success and power and used his considerable influence in the entertainment industry to create a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic with Mr. Dixon — initially promising him career advancement and creative opportunities, such as producing his pilot and casting him in his show, only to subject him to escalating sexual harassment, assault and battery, and professional retaliation,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit was filed Friday and first reported Tuesday by TMZ.

Perry's attorney, Matthew Boyd, said its allegations are false.

“This is an individual who got close to Tyler Perry for what now appears to be nothing more than setting up a scam,” Boyd said in a statement Tuesday. “But Tyler will not be shaken down, and we are confident these fabricated claims of harassment will fail.”

The lawsuit says that Perry first noticed Dixon in 2019 when Dixon was part of the event staff at a Perry party, and later offered an audition.

Dixon would first appear in a small role on the Perry series “Ruthless" before getting the bigger role on the political drama “The Oval.”

Perry soon began sending unwanted sexual text messages to Dixon, according to the lawsuit, which includes screenshots of several of them.

“What’s it going to take for you to have guiltless sex?” one of the messages says.

The lawsuit says Perry offered Dixon an increasingly prominent role on the show as his sexual advances became more aggressive.

The actor says he tried to remain friendly while maintaining boundaries.

“Dixon did his best to tiptoe around Mr. Perry’s sexual aggression while keeping on Mr. Perry’s good side,” the lawsuit says. “Mr. Perry made it clear to Dixon that if Dixon ignored Perry or failed to engage with the sexual innuendoes, Dixon’s character would ‘die.’”

The lawsuit says Perry eventually sexually assaulted Dixon on “multiple occasions," including an instance where he "forcibly pulled off Mr. Dixon’s clothing, groped his buttocks, and attempted to force himself on Dixon."

Dixon clearly told Perry “No,” but was initially ignored until he was able to de-escalate th... [truncated]

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Mengi, Bali, Indonesia - 18 June 2025

1. People gather in front of Mengwi police station

2. Police guard behind the fence

3. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT4++

"Last night, we successfully arrested three foreign suspects, with the first arrest made at 7 PM, then at 9 PM, and the last suspect was caught at 12 midnight."

4. Various shots of bullet fragments and projectiles in a plastic clip

5. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief ++SOUNDBITE IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 6-8++

"Up to now, we are still conducting developments, but from some of the evidence we found, all point to the three suspects, and we are still developing this, as we only conducted the investigation last night to uncover other facts as evidence."

6. Wide shot of evidence on the table

7. Close-up of a hammer

8. Pan left of the villa where the shooting occurred

9. Villa Casa Santisya 1, where the shooting took place, with police line set up

STORYLINE:

Indonesian police say they are detaining three suspects for murder after an Australian tourist was shot to death at a villa in the resort island of Bali.

“We successfully arrested three foreign suspects,” Bali Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya told reporters in Denpasar, the provincial capital.

“The three suspects are Australian men and they are now being held and questioned for further investigation,” he said.

Zivan Radmanovic, a 32-year-old from Melbourne, was killed just after midnight on June 13 at a villa near Munggu Beach in Bali’s Badung district.

A second man, a 34-year-old from Melbourne, was left beaten in the attack.

Police earlier said they had detained two suspects, but further investigation led police to arrest a third man who allegedly helped them to prepare the killing, Adityajaya said.

Witnesses at the villa told investigators that two gunmen arrived on a scooter at the villa around midnight.

Radmanovic was shot in a bathroom of his room, where police found 17 bullet casings and two intact bullets.

Radmanovic’s wife, Gourdeas Jazmyn, 30, told police that she suddenly woke up when she heard her husband screaming. She cowered under a blanket when she heard multiple gunshots.

She later found her husband’s body and the other injured Australian, whose wife also testified to seeing the attackers.

Two of the men were arrested late Tuesday in Singapore and at Jakarta's Soekarno Hatta International Airport, while trying to flee.

Indonesian police didn’t say where the third suspect was apprehended.

Adityajaya said the men are now being held in Bali and can face various charges, including murder and firearm charges, that could carry up to a life sentence or the death penalty if found guilty.

He said police are still investigating the motive and how they got the weapon as firearm ownership and use are heavily regulated in Indonesia.

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Los Angeles - 17 June 2025

1. Wide protestors outside the Metropolitan Detention Center

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Aguilar, protestor:

"Well, I didn't come for the first week after Friday, mainly because of due process. Like, I see only one news person, that's you, right here, right now. But during that time, there was so many newscasts showing all the destruction, like you see behind us, and people getting arrested, firebombs, everything like that going on. I feel this is the time to talk to people, the ones that are not violent like that. I know, I'm sure they have feelings, but when they're showing them in a strict manner, their voices are silent, though they're loud, a lot of people, their voices silent because people are only looking at what they're doing. Sometimes it's the quiet ones that people listen to."

3. Wide Al Aguilar poses with protest sign

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Aguilar, protestor:

"As far as immigration, that's what, it's a president the United States voted for, the people voted for the majority. And if this is what they want, then this is a policy they're going toward. Like the sign I did, due process, that's all, if they have due process in what they're doing, if this is what they want to do, then it should be done with due process not illegal and by the Constitution and due process."

5. Wide protest signage, Marine guard

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Josue Roman, protestor:- on his Uncle being detained by ICE.

"He was working at Home Depot. ICE just came and they took him. When I found out, I broke down. I just went, my tears went down. I didn't know what to do. And then I was seeing him in the cell when he calls me telling me I want my family back. It's just, it doesn't add up, you know? It doesn't really add up. And I tried my best to take care of my mom because my mom is an immigrant. I'll be sad if they take my Mom. I'll heartbroken, right?"

7. Wide Marine guard and Homeland security officers

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Josue Roman, protestor:

"We're not done. This is the beginning and we're gonna, we're going to come back. Just remember one thing, karma's a, karma is a dick and karma will get them back. You know, we are not done, president thinks he's done, we aren't done. We're coming bigger, we coming stronger and we know what we are going to do."

9. Wide protestors wave flags outside the Metropolitan Detention Center

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mehregan Pezeshki, protestor:

"I'm an Iranian American. I've been in the States for 17 years. And my family is, I have families back in Iran. And US and Iran, were gonna sit at a table and make a deal about the nuclear weapon and nuclear sites in Iran on Sunday. And then Israel start bombing Iran on Friday. They were gonna sit at the table in two days, and then before then, they started bombing Iran. They bombed, they killed all the people that they were gonna come and sit with them at the tables and have an agreement."

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Los Angeles - 17 June 2025

1. Wide BMO Bank boarded-up

2. Wide Japanese American National Museum boarded-up

3. Medium Wolf & Crane bar signage

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Glaser, business owner, Wolf & Crane:

"You know the thing that you don't really know is there was this association for quite a few years of downtown is dangerous and then we got rid of that and then during COVID we kind of went back into, oh downtown is dangerous and I feel like as we've really started to come back and rebuilding downtown it's hard to then shake that kind of reminding people, oh downtown is dangerous, and you know, for a short period of time, obviously, it was crazy. But I don't think that, I think it's gonna take a while to convince people that downtown's okay again. And that's, you know, is that a couple weeks? Is that a month? Is that months? Who knows?"

5. Wide Wolf & Crane bar

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Glaser, business owner, Wolf & Crane:- on city officials response.

"You know, I thought they actually did a pretty good job. I think during the [George} Floyd protest, there was this kind of like dismissal of the concern of like businesses and storefronts. This one they really, I think people cared a lot. I think, you know, from the mayor to the council person, I think they really kind of responded proactively, which is nice. Obviously it would be great to have the Marines and the National Guard and everyone go away and kind of things go back to normal. So I think whatever policy allows us to go back to normalcy, and I wish I knew what that was, but obviously I think financial support would be great for a lot of businesses. We're lucky to not be on the edge, but especially in hospitality, so many businesses are, you know, they are week to week, and if you lose a week of business, that might not mean that you can open for the next week of business."

7. Medium Wolf & Crane signage

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Glaser, business owner, Wolf & Crane:

"Part of it's going to be, like if you walk down the street right now, you'll see just storefront after storefront boarded up. And I think as long as that is kind of where we are as a status quo, like people aren't going to come back because they're going to drive down and think, you know, either not open for business or not safe to, you know, patronize these places. So hopefully talk to people and get people to, assuming that the situation gets better, get people to kind of buy into taking the board ups down, cleaning up the graffiti, getting just kind of the physical environment back to where it needs to be. I think Little Tokyo is so special that if that happens, everyone's gonna come back eventually. Maybe it's weeks, maybe it's months, I don't really know, but I think until we do that, we aren't gonna get people back. So that's gonna take kind of a, it's a collective action problem. Everybody's gotta do it together It's gonna be a little scary, I think, for... [truncated]

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Taftan, Balochistan, Pakistan - 18 June 2025

++Night shots++

1. Various of Pakistani families entering Pakistan at Taftan border crossing with Iran

2. Various of Pakistani students entering Pakistan at border crossing

3. Border entry gate with Iranian flags

4. Pakistani students arriving

5. Wide shot of Pakistani nationals sitting around with luggage

6. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, Pakistani national:

“My friend, manager and Iranian police have advised me to leave with my family as soon as possible today, as the situation is becoming dangerous in district 3 after some tweets by Netanyahu regarding an attack. I don’t know exactly, they just informed me about that. So I left that area and went to the Pakistan embassy. We left everything behind as we are family members, and we carried one bag containing some necessities and some food items. We are five family members, but we carried just one bag; we just left and left everything else there.”

7. Families at the immigration counter inside Pakistan

8. Family sitting on chairs

9. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, Pakistani national:

“When we were sleeping at night, we would feel like there was a bombing going on somewhere, but their defence system was working. But still, we were hearing sounds. We were afraid all night and for almost three nights we didn’t sleep at all.”

10. Various of students at immigration counter

STORYLINE:

More than 300 Pakistani families, students and pilgrims arrived at the Taftan land border crossing with Iran in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Pakistani authorities said.

Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran is contacting and organising evacuations for citizens who want to leave Iran because of the conflict with Israel.

Ghulam Mustafa Ijaz, a Pakistani national working in the telecom sector, left Tehran along with his wife and three children.

The journeys from Tehran take up to 12 hours by road to reach the formal border crossings.

Others are making their own way out.

Pakistan says the repatriations are voluntary, and nobody is being forced to go.

AP Video by Muhammad Fatheh

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Mengi, Bali, Indonesia - 18 June 2025

1. People gather in front of Mengwi police station

2. Police guard behind the fence

3. Sign of Mengwi Resort Police Station

4. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief

"Last night, we successfully arrested three foreign suspects, with the first arrest made at 7 PM, then at 9 PM, and the last suspect was caught at 12 midnight."

5. Zoom out from the words "Bullet casing, bullet fragments, and projectiles" to the evidence inside a plastic clip

6. Various shots of bullet fragments and projectiles in a plastic clip

7. Wide shot of evidence on the table

8. Close-up of a hammer

9. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Daniel Adityajaya, Bali Police Chief

"Up to now, we are still conducting developments, but from some of the evidence we found, all point to the three suspects, and we are still developing this, as we only conducted the investigation last night to uncover other facts as evidence."

10. Pan left of the villa where the shooting occurred

11. Various shots of Villa Casa Santisya 1, where the shooting took place, with police line set up

STORYLINE:

Indonesian police say they are detaining three suspects for murder after an Australian tourist was shot to death at a villa in the resort island of Bali.

“We successfully arrested three foreign suspects,” Bali Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya told reporters in Denpasar, the provincial capital.

“The three suspects are Australian men and they are now being held and questioned for further investigation,” he said.

Zivan Radmanovic, a 32-year-old from Melbourne, was killed just after midnight on June 13 at a villa near Munggu Beach in Bali’s Badung district.

A second man, a 34-year-old from Melbourne, was left beaten in the attack.

Police earlier said they had detained two suspects, but further investigation led police to arrest a third man who allegedly helped them to prepare the killing, Adityajaya said.

Witnesses at the villa told investigators that two gunmen arrived on a scooter at the villa around midnight.

Radmanovic was shot in a bathroom of his room, where police found 17 bullet casings and two intact bullets.

Radmanovic’s wife, Gourdeas Jazmyn, 30, told police that she suddenly woke up when she heard her husband screaming. She cowered under a blanket when she heard multiple gunshots.

She later found her husband’s body and the other injured Australian, whose wife also testified to seeing the attackers.

Two of the men were arrested late Tuesday in Singapore and at Jakarta's Soekarno Hatta International Airport, while trying to flee.

Indonesian police didn’t say where the third suspect was apprehended.

Adityajaya said the men are now being held in Bali and can face various charges, including murder and firearm charges, that could carry up to a life sentence or the death penalty if found guilty.

He said police are still investigating the motive and how... [truncated]

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 17 June 2025

1. Members of the military demonstrating security drills for media in preparation for the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro

2. Military personnel putting on gas masks

3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Lieutenant Colonel André Luiz Bifano da Silva, Commander of the 1st Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Battalion

"Within 15 minutes, we had all our resources in place to detect the chemical threat, assess how the contamination would spread through the city, decontaminate victims, carry out evacuations, even by air, and collect samples for laboratory analysis."

4. Various of military personnel simulating a chemical attack and evacuating a severely injured person

5. Various of people being decontaminated

STORYLINE:

Brazil's military conducted a security drill on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the BRICS Summit, which will take place in the city in early July.

Troops from all three branches of the military; army, navy, and air force were mobilized to carry out an exercise simulating a sarin gas attack, prompting an immediate response from specialized units.

Lieutenant Colonel André Luiz Bifano da Silva, Commander of the 1st Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Battalion, said the operation is designed to ensure the safety of world leaders and the public during the summit.

"Within 15 minutes, we had all our resources in place to detect the chemical threat, assess how the contamination would spread through the city, decontaminate victims, carry out evacuations, even by air, and collect samples for laboratory analysis," said da Silva.

The BRICS Summit will take place on July 6–7 in Rio de Janeiro and will gather heads of state from the 11 BRICS member countries, along with invited partners.

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Sofia, Bulgaria - 18 June 2025

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. An airplane carrying evacuees from Israel taxiing at the Vasil Levsky Airport

2. Various of evacuees walking down the stairs and away from the plane

3. SOUNDBITE (Bulgarian) Antonia Nacheva, mother and evacuee:

"We found out that the Bulgarian embassy was organizing the evacuation, and since the situation was becoming stressful and our child was very frightened, we decided to leave. We simply had no other choice."

4. Father carrying his daughter to the gate

5. Mid of a child carried by her father as people wait

6. Mother hugs her children and smiles

7. SOUNDBITE (Bulgarian) Georg Georgiev, Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs:

"A total of 148 people were safely evacuated—89 Bulgarian citizens and 59 foreign nationals from countries including Slovenia, the USA, Belgium, Albania and Kosovo. This number also includes a large group of 41 individuals from neighboring Romania."

8. Wide of Georgiev speaking

9. SOUNDBITE (Bulgarian) Georg Georgiev, Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"The past few days have been long and exhausting, marked by limited information and a lack of positive news. It was a complex, multi-faceted and particularly challenging task."

10. Various of evacuees waiting for their luggage

11. SOUNDBITE (Bulgarian) Wilma Kalaydzhieva, Israeli and Bulgarian citizen:

"These four days felt like an entire month. We couldn’t go out freely or travel far. We had to stay constantly alert, always knowing where the nearest bomb shelter was. We couldn’t even take our young child to the park, because at the sound of sirens, we had to immediately take cover or rush back home. The tension was overwhelming—constant stress and anxiety."

12. A girl holds her toy while waiting

13. Children huddled next to suitcases

STORYLINE:

The first group of Bulgarian citizens who evacuated from Israel returned safely to their homeland early Wednesday.

They were welcomed at international airport in Sofia by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev after landing at 2:30 a.m.

Among the 148 people on board the flight, Georgiev said there were 89 Bulgarian nationals and 59 foreign citizens from Slovenia, the United States, Belgium, Albania, Kosovo and Romania. Representatives of the respective diplomatic missions were present to welcome their citizens.

The Bulgarian evacuees arrived at Vasil Levski Airport on a flight from the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, having been transported across the border from Israel to Egypt by bus.

“The past few days have been long and exhausting, marked by limited information and a lack of positive news. It was a complex, multi-faceted, and particularly challenging task," Georgiev said after they arrived

AP video shot by Valentina Petrova

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