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Islamabad / Rawalpindi (Pakistan), Nov 16 (EFE / EPA).- About a thousand Islamists kept one of the main entrances to the Pakistani capital blocked on Monday in protest against the "blasphemous" cartoons of Muhammad published in France.Supporters of the extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party have occupied the Faizabad intersection, which links the cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, causing transport chaos in the Pakistani capital.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS ON MONDAY.
Guatemalan police arrive to remove roadblocks set up by Indigenous groups to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who they accuse of plotting a "coup d'état" against the president-elect, Bernardo Arevalo. IMAGES
Protesters brave tear gas to remain in the streets of Georgia's capital Tbilisi after the police dispersed tens of thousands of people with teargas who rallied in front of the parliament against a planned "foreign agent" law which critics say is reminiscent of Russian legislation used to silence dissent. SOUNDBITE
Police disperse demonstrators with flashbangs and water cannons near the centre of the capital Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
In the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, shops are closed, vehicles have been set on fire and roads are covered in debris. It comes a week after the start of the protest movement over compulsory vaccination for health care workers. IMAGES
La Paz, Sep 28 (EFE).- A new day of confrontations between police and coca producers who are trying to retake the control of the leaf's main market in La Paz ended on Tuesday with violent clashes in the streets with slingshots and tear gas, new arrests and destructions in parts of the Bolivian capital. (Camera: GABRIEL ROMANO). SHOT LIST: COCA GROWERS AND BOLIVIAN POLICE CLASH IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.