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Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
Israeli police stop protesters, on a road in Nitzana in southern Israel, from blocking the passage of aid trucks bound for Gaza. At least 12 countries -- including top donors the United States and Germany -- have halted funds over Israeli claims that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas's October 7 attack that sparked the fighting. IMAGES
Panaman police fire tear gas at demonstrators who block roads in the outskirts of the capital Panama City in protest against a mining contract signed by the government with Canadian company First Quantum Minerals to manage the biggest mine in Central America. IMAGES
Aerial images of hundreds of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who protest in Brazil's capital to ask for federal intervention outside the Army headquarters. Bolsonaro "authorised" the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro gather in front of the Brazilian Armed Forces headquarters in the capital Brasilia after his election defeat to call for military intervention after the victory of leftist Lula da Silva at the polls. In a speech that lasted just over two minutes, the far-right incumbent neither acknowledged defeat nor congratulated Lula on his victory. IMAGES
Truckers block a highway in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro state, in an apparent protest after veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a divisive presidential election in Brazil. IMAGES