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Images of the Bakhrushin City Clinical Hospital in Moscow's Sokolniki District, where Russian political activist and Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov is being treated with suspected poisoning. STOCKSHOTS
People gather in front of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen to call for the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Watson founded Sea Shepherd and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) and is known for radical tactics, including confrontations with whaling ships at sea. He was arrested on July 21 on the basis of an Interpol "Red Notice" after Japan accused him of causing damage to one of its whaling ships in the Antarctic two years earlier and causing injury. IMAGES
Anti-racist protesters gather outside Belfast City Hall in response to an anti-immigration demonstration, following ten days of racist and Islamophobic rioting across the UK. The two demonstrations, which are taking place in the same place, are divided by a heavy police presence. IMAGES
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the anti-Israel riot at Dagestan's Makhachkala airport Sunday evening was reminiscent of "pogroms." "Some people have compared it to the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th century and I think that's probably an apt description," Kirby tells journalists. SOUNDBITE
The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has initiated the dissolution of the environmental activism group "Soulèvements de la terre" (Earth Rising), which he accuses of being behind violent actions in Sainte-Soline, the site of a recent water dispute. IMAGES
Representative Liz Cheney, the senior Republican on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack and an outspoken critic of Trump, warns fellow Republicans against attempts to "whitewash" the reality of the attack. "No member of Congress should now attempt to defend the indefensible, obstruct this investigation, or whitewash what happened that day," Cheney says on the first day of the hearing in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITE