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French police detain a man in Paris at nightfall after a day of protests against the government's plan to overhaul the pension system. Strikes across the country brought much of France to a halt. IMAGES
Hundreds of opposition protesters are arrested and bundled into police vans in Kazakhstan, where the first presidential election is held without the participation of its historic autocrat Nursultan Nazarbayev. IMAGES
Thousands of people take to the streets of Barcelona as Spanish police detain 13 Catalan government officials in a crackdown ahead of an independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid. IMAGES
Spanish police detain 13 Catalan government officials as they crack down on preparations for an independence referendum in the region which Madrid says is illegal, sparking angry protests in Barcelona. IMAGES
Israeli police detain several protesters as they try to block a highway near Tel Aviv to call for a deal to release the hostages. The demonstration was organised in support of a strike called by Israel's largest labour union to pressure the government into reaching a Gaza deal to free hostages, a day after the army's announcement that troops had recovered the bodies of six hostages in a Gaza tunnel. IMAGES