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Flipped cars, paving stones and garbage fires: Italy square, in the south of Paris, is the scene of sporadic outbreaks of violence, quickly drowned in a flood of tear gas, as the 'yellow vests' celebrate the first anniversary of their movement. IMAGES
Did you forget about France's fluorescently-clad protesters? Well, on Saturday, they were back to show their frustrations haven't gone away.
IN THE PRESS – Monday, February 22, 2021: "Not dead. Simply dormant." That's how one editorialist describes Algeria's Hirak protests, two years after the demonstrations first erupted to oust then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. In the US, papers struggle to visualise the country's coronavirus death toll which is now at nearly 500,000. We also look at a poll finding that over half of Republican voters feel more loyal to Donald Trump individually than to the party as a whole. Finally, a 21-year-old from the UK becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean!
This Monday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of anti-government protests in Egypt, which finally pushed out then-President Hosni Mubarak. From ousting the latter, to giving Mohammed Morsi’s Islamic party the majority and gradually falling into Abdel Fatah el-Sisi’s iron fist, how did the country change in 10 years, both politically, socially and economically?
Hundreds of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut to mark the first anniversary of a non-sectarian protest movement that has rocked the political elite but has yet to achieve its goal of sweeping reform in the crisis-hit country. IMAGES