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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounces Sweden for allowing a protest during which a man burned pages from the Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam, further clouding the Nordic nation's chances of quickly joining NATO. "We will never yield to the politics of provocation or the politics of threat," he says in televised remarks. SOUNDBITE
A new day of protests against Colombian President Ivan Duque begins in Bogota over government policies on issues including health, education, security, and to denounce violence by security forces. According to official figures, at least 19 people have died with more than 800 others injured and 89 people reported as missing during the week of demonstrations. NGOs claim the death toll is over 30. IMAGES
A march begins in Louisville, Kentucky to mark a year since the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26 year-old Black woman who was shot dead when police raided her home. Twelve months after the killing -- in which police shot Taylor while looking for a former friend of hers -- only one of three police officers has been charged, and only for endangering Taylor's neighbors by firing wildly. IMAGES
Pro-choice activists gather outside Argentina's Congress building in the capital Buenos Aires as a polarized Senate begins a debate on legalizing abortion in a vote experts say could go either way. IMAGES
Several hundred demonstrators march in Lyon to protest against the "global security" law for the third Saturday in a row. IMAGES