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Added on the 06/11/2013 14:45:05 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Images of Armenians gathering to take part in an anti-government protest in central Yerevan. Azerbaijan's lightning military takeover of the Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic Armenian enclave, last week, sparked a sudden exodus of 100,417 people, according to Yerevan, from an estimated population of 120,000 since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat. IMAGES
Hundreds gather at the beginning of a rally in Yerevan's Republic Square to protest the government's handling of the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. IMAGES
Stun grenades fly into crowds outside the Armenian government building, after residents took to the streets over the government's handling of escalating tensions in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned of multiple calls to stage a coup. IMAGES
Israeli police push back anti-government protesters rallying in Tel Aviv to demand early elections and a hostage deal, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. One of the demonstrators can be seen being pushed to the ground and led away by the police. IMAGES
Israeli security forces use water canons to disperse anti-government protesters gathering in Tel Aviv, demanding the government's resignation amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement. IMAGES
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES