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The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Demonstrations of support and solidarity for Palestinians take place in France's capital, at the Place du Châtelet, despite a ban. Police officers have been deployed to contain the protests. IMAGES
"We've won": a demonstrator shouts after a Paris court suspends a ban that had been put on the protest in Place de la Republique in central Paris. Thousands had already gathered for the rally, which started off peacefully, but later saw clashes with police, who used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. IMAGES
"Soon the end of a profession, thank you NGOs": angry fishermen are demonstrating in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a seaside town in southwest France, to warn of "the death of small-scale fishing" as part of a "dead channel" operation in French ports. They denounce in particular the decision of the State Council to impose within six months the closure of certain fishing zones in the Atlantic in order to preserve dolphins, whose strandings have multiplied in the Bay of Biscay. IMAGES
In Mont-de-Marsan, several elected officials and local residents are meeting to rally against a bill to ban bullfighting. The text, supported by the deputy Aymeric Carron, has little chance of being adopted but has already provoked heated debates. IMAGES
French MPs in committee have rejected a proposal by far-left party MP Aymeric Caron to ban bullfighting. The proposal by the France Unbowed party has sparked heated debates and protests. IMAGES
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