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Cambridge University students protest in support of Palestinians over Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, setting up a camp and erecting banners on the lawns outside a college, as British campuses echo demonstrations on US campuses that have spread to several countries. According to a local media reports, the encampment was set up on May 6. IMAGES
Broken tents, signs, and trash on the ground are seen on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus hours after hundreds of police cleared the pro-Palestine protest encampment. IMAGES
Leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends the closing ceremony of the Terra Livre (Free Land) Indigenous gathering in the capital Brasilia. Thousands of Indigenous Brazilians have been gathered in the capital this week to demand the creation of new reserves on their ancestral lands. IMAGES
German police officers begin removing climate activists perched precariously on high structures after they embarked on an operation to evacuate a protest camp that has become a symbol of resistance against fossil fuels. Luetzerath, a village in North Rhine-Westphalia state, has been turned over to around 2,000 anti-coal activists who are trying to prevent the site from being dug up for coal. IMAGES
Bolsonaro supporters begin dismantling a camp that had been set up since the day the left-wing Lula won the elections in Brazil at the end of October, in front of the military headquarters in southeast Sao Paulo, to protest against the new government. IMAGES