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Canadian police officers hand leaflets ordering participants in a trucker protest against Covid-19 restrictions outside the Parliament in Ottawa to leave the area. The "Freedom Convoy" demonstration has slowed Canada's capital to a near standstill for weeks. IMAGES
Riot police disperse protesters outside McDonald's in Guatemala City amid demonstrations denouncing what some claim is a campaign to prevent president-elect Bernardo Arevalo from taking power. IMAGES
People In Russia's former imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, gather in the streets to protest against president Vladimir Putin's decree on a partial military mobilisation in the country, with Russian police arresting a few of the demonstrators. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia would initially mobilise some 300,000 reservists, after Putin warned in a televised address Russia would use all available military means in Ukraine. IMAGES
Riot police use water cannons against hundreds of students who demonstrate outside the presidential palace demanding more resources for education ahead of Chilean president Gabriel Boric's cabinet reshuffle after the overwhelming rejection of the new constitution draft in a referendum. IMAGES
Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell tells reporters that officers made 47 arrests Saturday in a final push to dislodge hundreds of protesters who have blocked the center of the Canadian capital for weeks. He also describes the moment a protester ignited a flare, saying that "officers used a chemical irritant also known as pepper spray to disperse unlawful demonstrators who were resisting police orders." SOUNDBITE