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Kenyan police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse young protesters in the capital Nairobi, escalating tensions as demonstrators rallied across the country against proposed tax hikes. IMAGES
Hundreds of people rally in the capital Yerevan in protests against the Armenian government's plans to concede land to concede land to the Caucasus nation's historic foe, Azerbaijan. According to Armenian police, it detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in Yerevan as part of protests. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts, in a bid to secure an elusive peace deal with Baku and avoid another bloody conflict. IMAGES
Moscow's main Manezhnaya Square near the Kremlin is cordoned off as anti-Kremlin protestors are set to rally in Russia's capital city to demand the release of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for three weeks. 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
Anti-government protestors in the capital's central business district are being quickly dispersed as police fire tear gas, and make arrests, in a show of force. The East African nation,has been rocked by weeks of sometimes deadly protests against Ruto's two-year-old administration, mostly led by young Gen-Z Kenyans. IMAGES