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As the Italian senate prepares to vote for same sax marriage, tens of thousands marched across Italy over the weekend to support the proposed bill. Italy is the last major western European country to recognize same sex unions.
Thousands of Italians take to the streets in support of gay civil unions, ahead of a bill to be debated in parliament. Yiming Woo reports.
Trade unions hold an anti-fascist protest in Rome, after violent protests last week in the centre of the city against the extension of the government's coronavirus pass led to a storming of the CGIL trade union. Calls have grown in Italy for a ban on the far-right group Forza Nuova, whose leaders were among those arrested after the storming of the union. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, arrives to vote at the Russian embassy in Berlin thronged by supporter after calling for voters to spoil their ballots in protest at Russia's stage-managed presidential election. The election is set to hand President Vladimir Putin another six years in the Kremlin, with Navalny, Putin's most prominent critic, dead in opaque circumstances in an Arctic prison last month. IMAGES
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