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Hundreds of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gather in Caracas for a pro-government rally, responding to the president's call to compete with the opposition's rallies in the capital. Eleven civilians reportedly have died and more than 1,000 have been detained in the protests that erupted after the country's CNE election authority, loyal to Maduro, proclaimed him the winner with 52 percent of the vote to 43 percent for opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. IMAGES
Supporters of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori gather outside the prison where he is being held in the outskirts of Lima, a day after Peru's Constitutional Court ordered his release. Fujimori, 85, has been serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s. IMAGES
Hundreds of supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gather in Brasilia in a counter-protest to a pro-democracy rally calling for Bolsonaro's impeachment, as confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil surge past one million, the second worst-affected country with almost 50,000 deaths. IMAGES
A group of pro-Beijing supporters gather in Yuen Long near the Chinese border to showcase their solidarity amid rising tensions between the establishment and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong IMAGES
Pro-Beijing supporters sing and chant slogans while waving Chinese flags at a mall in Hong Kong as they respond to the city's pro-democracy protesters turning up in large numbers recently at various locations to belt out a newly penned protest song. IMAGES