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Thousands of demonstrators take to the snowy Paris streets to protest against a controversial security bill that would limit filming of the police. Critics say it will make it harder for journalists and citizens to document cases of police brutality. IMAGES
Lebanese security forces use a water cannon to try to disperse anti-government protesters gathered near government headquarters at the Grand Serail, in downtown Beirut, to mark 100 days of anti-government demonstrations and denounce a new cabinet line-up. IMAGES
Senegalese security forces use tear gas against youths trying to gather in the centre of the capital Dakar to protest a delay of presidential polls. IMAGES
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
Several hundred people opposed to Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill demonstrate on Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris, surrounded by a large deployment of police. The French government deployed Article 49.3 of the Constitution to push tdhe controversial project through, prompting a backlash from protesting public service workers and criticism of being "undemocratic" by opposition parties. IMAGES
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