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Kenyans take to the streets of the capital Nairobi's city centre to protest the government's controversial tax increase proposals. Police use water cannon and tear gas in an attempt to disperse the demonstrators. IMAGES
Around one thousand tractors are expected to block the city centre of Poznan in Poland in protest against EU measures to tackle climate change. Polish farmers are blocking roads and staging protests at border checkpoints with Ukraine, in a new wave of protests against farming imports from the neighbouring war-torn country. IMAGES
French farmers dump tyres outside the administrative and tax centre in Laval, northwest France, as the government is due to make further announcements later today. IMAGES
Firefighters are working to bring a fire under control in an empty building belonging to the Mutualite Sociale Agricole (MSA), an agricultural welfare centre, in Narbonne, southern France, which was partially engulfed by flames during a farmers' demonstration. IMAGES
Demonstrators throw molotov cocktails over the gates of Mexico's National Intelligence Centre on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the high-profile, unresolved disappearance of 43 students in 2014. The students, from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, disappeared between the night of September 26 and the early morning of September 27, 2014, when they were traveling via bus to participate in demonstrations in Mexico City. The Mexican government has recently promised to provide the parents of the young people with all available information on the case, which a commission of international experts has found to implicate the army. IMAGES