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Riot police clash with May Day protesters in Istanbul's Sarachane neighbourhood, with tens of thousands of officers deployed across the city to clamp down on similar gatherings. Istanbul's central Taksim Square was closed to rallies after 2013 demonstrations against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, a move that was ruled a violation of rights by Turkey's top constitutional court in 2023. Protesters and a number of opposition politicians have called for the square to be reopened to labour rallies. IMAGES
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
Riot police stand by in snowy Ottawa, Canada, as protesters continue to gather, defying orders to leave the area. The Ottawa Police Department is working to put a final end to the weeks-long protest against Covid-19 measire choking the Canadian capital. IMAGES
Dutch police officers inspect damage in the port city of Rotterdam, after "riots" erupted against a partial coronavirus lockdown, according to the local police, whose warning shots injured people. IMAGES
Anti riot police blocks access in Moscow's centre, as thousands of supporters of Alexei Navalny gather of Moscow to protest his detention and back calls for the hunger-striking Kremlin critic to be given proper medical care. IMAGES
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