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Added on the 06/03/2022 18:55:46 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Riot police in Athens clash with protesters during a demonstration amid a 24-hour general strike to voice outrage over last month's train disaster, which claimed 57 lives. Police fire tear gas and stun grenades as demonstrators try to surround them, hurling firebombs and rocks. IMAGES
Police and protesters face off in the western French city of Rennes, as a march against pension reform gives way to skirmishes. Police disperse the crowd with tear gas and a water cannon, on the sidelines of the demonstration. IMAGES
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
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
Violent clashes occur between police and protestors in front of the Haute-Corse prefecture in Bastia, at the end of a march for prisoner Yvan Colonna, a prominent prisoner who was attacked and left in a coma. The Corsican independent activist who was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of prefect Claude Erignac was seriously wounded in prison. 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).