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Police officers check vehicles on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris to ensure that curfew rules are being respected in the French capital on New Year's Eve. IMAGES
The last passers-by rush to take the metro, while restaurants close their doors in Place de la Bastille in Paris a few minutes before curfew takes effect, a measure taken for at least four weeks by the government after an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases. IMAGES
The river brigade patrols the canal Saint-Martin in Paris to prevent large crowds from forming again after police had to intervene on Monday evening to disperse gatherings, prompting a ban on alcohol consumption on the river banks. IMAGES
Tensions erupt at Place de la Nation at the end of the Paris May Day march. Law enforcement fired tear gas to deal with what a police source called a minority of "radical elements". IMAGES
French riot police are positioned on the outskirts of rue Saint-Guillaume as the pro-Palestinian protest continues at elite Sciences Po university in Paris. Students blocked the main entrance to the campus, demanding "a clear condemnation of Israel's actions by Sciences Po". 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).