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Police clear roads in Yerevan and detain demonstrators trying to paralyse the capital's center to protest concessions to arch-foe Azerbaijan over the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of plans to give away all of Karabakh to Azerbaijan after he told lawmakers last month that the "international community calls on Armenia to scale down demands on Karabakh." IMAGES
Hong Kong police cordon off the city's main Victoria Park, ordering those playing sports to leave, as China's Communist Party celebrated its centenary which coincides with the 24th anniversary of Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China by colonial Britain. The force said they had seen online calls for people to attend "banned rallies", so they were closing the grounds. IMAGES
Thai police use water cannons outside Bangkok's Grand Palace, after demonstrators broke through a barricade of shipping containers to demand reforms to the kingdom's unassailable monarchy. This is the latest night of unrest since Thailand's pro-democracy movement kicked off in July last year, calling for an overhaul of Premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha's administration and a rewrite of a military-scripted constitution. IMAGES
About two dozen riot police attempted to break up a protest in Bangkok--where scores of Myanmar migrant workers were demonstrating in front of their embassy-- and clashed with the Thai organisers of the protest who are part of the kingdom's own pro-democracy movement. IMAGES of clashes
Protesters in Lebanon's capital Beirut take to the streets to burn tyres and close roads as they rail against the nomination of Hassan Diab as prime minister-designate. IMAGES
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