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Anti-government protesters clash with Venezuelan police, as tens of thousand of people jammed the streets of Caracas in an outpouring of support for Nicolas Maduro's ouster amid a dire economic crisis that has devastated the once rich oil-producing country. IMAGES
The largest Turkish opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), holds its last rally in Ankara in the final countdown to the toughest election challenge of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the CHP's leader and the six-party opposition's chosen candidate to challenge Erdogan, is currently leading in the polls with a slight advantage and within a whisker of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff on May 28. IMAGES
Turkish police detain protesters attempting to hold a Labour Day demonstration in Istanbul, with the city centre's famous Taksim square closed off. The city is expecting mass International Workers' Day rallies ahead of key May 14 elections billed as a referendum on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two decades in power. IMAGES
A handful of supporters of Donald Trump gather outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where the former US president is due to be arraigned in a hush-money payment case. Other protesters unfurl a banner reading "Trump lies all the time." IMAGES
Filipino Catholics hold a requiem mass at Malolos Cathedral for ex-pontiff Benedict XVI on the same day as the funeral at the Vatican. Benedict, born Joseph Ratzinger, died on Saturday aged 95, bringing an end to an unprecedented situation of having two "men in white" -- he and Francis -- living in the Vatican. IMAGES
Sri Lankan demonstrators gather outside the president's office in capital Colombo to mark Vesak, the anniversary of Buddha's birth, as weeks of anti-government demonstrations over the country's crippling economic crisis continue. IMAGES
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