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Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano walks the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival before the projection of his latest feature film "Broken rage". IMAGES
Pro-Palestinian protests spread to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus as students set up encampments, hold banners and shout slogans. IMAGES
Images of barricades burning in the streets of Dakar. Initial clashes broke out in Dakar, where Senegalese gendarmes used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who had come to demonstrate against the postponement of the presidential election, before being pelted with stones. IMAGES
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager says the European Commission is "concerned that Google may have illegally distorted competition in the online advertising industry". SOUNDBITE
Humanity has "broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater," the UN secretary-general says at the opening of the first major UN meeting on water resources in nearly half a century. "We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," Antonio Guterres says, describing water as "a human right." SOUNDBITE
The United States is suing Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, announces Attorney General Merrick Garland from the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," he tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE