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Police and demonstrators continue clashing on day 12 of a fuel price revolt in Ecuador, that has claimed six lives and injured dozens. An estimated 14,000 protesters are taking part in the mass show of discontent countrywide against rising hardship in an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Police in Ecuador's capital Quito fire tear gas to disperse protesters as they attempt to reach the congress building. IMAGES
Demonstrators clash with police on a main road in Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
Several thousand indigenous people flocked to Quito on the third consecutive day of protests against Ecuador's government, and as their leader Leonidas Iza, accused of paralysing public transport by blocking roads, was released from detention.
Masked Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces following a protest to denounce the annual nationalist "flag march" through Jerusalem, near the Beit El settlement at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. IMAGES