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Some 700,000 people take to Barcelona's streets, city police say, to protest against police violence during a banned weekend independence referendum in Catalonia, demanding to be heard. IMAGES
Some 700,000 people took to Barcelona's streets Tuesday, city police said, to protest against police violence during a banned weekend independence referendum in Catalonia, demanding to be heard. IMAGES
Protesters blocked roads, public transport slowed to a crawl and FC Barcelona refused to train on Tuesday as Catalonia observed a general strike over police violence at a banned weekend independence referendum. IMAGES
Mexican soldiers and police guard the scene where at least five bodies and several charred skeletal remains, including five skulls, have been found on a highway in the industrial state of Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico. IMAGES
The trial of a divisional commander who ordered the attack that injured the septuagenarian activist Genevieve Legay during a "yellow vest" demonstration in the southeastern French city of Nice in March 2019 begins at the Lyon Criminal Court. IMAGES
A store is looted in Dublin where clashes with police took place and vehicles were torched after a suspected stabbing that injured three children that social media rumours attributed to a foreign national. A five-year-old girl sustained serious injuries and four other people, including two children, were taken to hospital after the incident at a city centre primary school, which occurred shortly after 1:30 pm (1330 GMT). Hundreds of people took to the streets after rumours circulated of the attacker's nationality, some fighting with police and attacking vehicles, according to an AFP journalist. IMAGES