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Thousands of people cheer as they gather for the annual anti-abortion "March for Life" protest in Washington, DC. This year’s march comes less than two months after the conservative-leaning US Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, but left the door open for abortion providers to challenge the law in lower courts. IMAGES
Protesters fill Dhaka streets as they demonstrate against France and president Emmanuel Macron. Macron sparked protests across the Muslim world after the murder last month of teacher Samuel Paty -- who had shown his class a cartoon of Mohammed -- by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures. IMAGES
Thousands of people rally in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk in protests supporting popular governor Sergei Furgal, who was detained on murder charges, and in a rare show of defiance against the Kremlin. The arrest of 50-year-old Furgal, who defeated a candidate from the ruling United Russia party to win the governorship in 2018, has sparked daily demonstrations in Khabarovsk. IMAGES
Thousands gather at Santiago's emblematic Italy square despite a government announcement it will hold a referendum to replace the country's dictatorship-era constitution -- a key demand of protesters after nearly a month of violent civil unrest. IMAGES
French 'yellow vest' protesters gather in Paris as more than 7,000 police officers are deployed over fears that "yellow vest" protesters and their radical, anarchist "black blocs" could try to infiltrate a march against climate change in the French capital. IMAGES