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Protesters storm into Baghdad's Green Zone and are repelled by security forces firing tear gas and live bullets, according to a Reuters witness. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES
Protesters clash with security forces near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad during demonstrations ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden. Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers plan to burn a copy of the Koran as well as an Iraqi flag. IMAGES SOUNDBITES
Lebanese security forces fire tear gas towards protesters during demonstrations in central capital Beirut. IMAGES
Iraqi protesters clash with security forces in Iraq's central city of Karbala as anti-government protests continue across the country. Iraq's embattled premier announced Friday he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country's top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests. IMAGES
Protesters clash with Iraqi security forces during an anti-government demonstration in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad. IMAGES