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Added on the 16/05/2021 01:02:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
"We've won": a demonstrator shouts after a Paris court suspends a ban that had been put on the protest in Place de la Republique in central Paris. Thousands had already gathered for the rally, which started off peacefully, but later saw clashes with police, who used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. IMAGES
Thousands of people mass in Istanbul for a rally called by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to show solidarity with the Palestinians and condemn Israel after its deadly shootings of Gaza protesters. IMAGES
Thousands of Georgians take to the streets of capital Tbilisi in fresh rallies against the controversial "foreign influence" bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent. Demonstrators gathered in front of the Paragraph hotel belonging to the company of billionaire and the ruling party chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili, where a forum of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is taking place and in which members of the Georgian government are also participating. IMAGES
Young pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather in front of the Pantheon in Paris, while French police intervened at the capital's prestigious Sciences Po university to remove activists who had occupied the building to denounce the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. IMAGES
Demonstrators gather in central London to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli aerial bombardments has claimed dozens more victims in the Gaza Strip today, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, while the first ship loaded with aid is ready to set sail from Cyprus for the famine-stricken Palestinian territory. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).