Police in The Hague detained on Sunday 37 protesters who ignored a court ban and held a demonstration against social distancing rules imposed to fight the coronavirus outbreak, news wires reported. Around 200 protesters took part in Sunday’s demonstration, far fewer than a week ago when several thousand attended a similar protest.

Boris Johnson's car was involved in a minor collision with a security vehicle after a protester targeted the convoy outside parliament, news wires reported.

Police staged protests in many cities across France on Friday against a ban on chokehold restraint techniques imposed by the government in response to public anger over the death of George Floyd, news wires reported. The protests followed a meeting between police unions and Interior Minister Christophe Castaner meant to try to calm the simmering police anger, Reuters reported.

Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank, de-facto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state.

Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Paris on Tuesday after around 20,000 people defied a ban to rally over the 2016 death of a black man in police custody, galvanised by US demonstrations against racism and deadly police violence.

China warned Britain on Wednesday that interfering in Hong Kong will backfire, after the former colonial power vowed to give sanctuary to any local who may flee the city if a controversial security law is passed.

President Donald Trump vowed to order a military crackdown on once-in-a-generation violent protests gripping the United States, saying he was sending thousands of troops onto the streets of the capital and threatening to deploy soldiers to states unable to regain control.

Curfews were imposed on major US cities as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Donald Trump that his government would stop the violent protests "cold."

Twitter hid a tweet by US President Donald Trump behind a warning for the first time on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot.

Spanish health workers on the front line against coronavirus gathered on Monday outside hospitals in the region of Madrid to rally against shortages of protective equipment, news wires reported. Nurses, doctors and other workers protested in their uniforms, some in scrubs, under the slogan "health workers essential".