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Thousands of people gather in Vancouver to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died a few days after her arrest by religious police for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women in force since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. IMAGES
Demonstrators chant "Justice for Nahel!" as police officers stand in the rue de Rivoli, Paris, following the death on Tuesday of Nahel, aged 17, during a police check in Nanterre. IMAGES
"It's devastating for the whole national police force, for the whole city of Roubaix, for the whole of the North region", says French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin during a visit to the Roubaix police station, in northern France, to pay tribute to three police officers killed in a road traffic accident one day prior. SOUNDBITE
In Berlin, people demonstrate in support of the demonstrations in Iran, as the nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini are entering a sixth week. The death of 22-year-old Amini, after her arrest for allegedly breaching Iran's strict dress code for women, has fuelled the biggest protests seen in the Islamic republic for years. IMAGES
The EU is considering sanctions on Iran over the "killing" of Mahsa Amini and the crackdown on protests across the country, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says. SOUNDBITE
Police in Armenia arrest hundreds of protesters as opposition supporters seek to spread their month-long anti-government demonstrations throughout Yerevan. Yerevan has been gripped by anti-government protests since mid-April, with opposition parties demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation over his handling of a territorial dispute with Azerbaijan. IMAGES
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