French students have planned a series of protests on Wednesday to draw attention to the rising mental health problems as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, news wires reported. A combination of isolation, inactivity and a broader loss of purpose has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.

More than 20 shellfish trucks parked on roads near the British parliament and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street residence on Monday to protest against post-Brexit bureaucracy that has throttled exports to the European Union.

Around 10,000 people rallied in the Austrian capital on Saturday (January 16) to protest coronavirus restrictions, calling on the government to resign, Austrian police said.

Security forces in Belarus cracked down on demonstrators on Sunday during widespread protests against embattled authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, dpa reported.

Paris police have taken nearly 150 people into custody in what quickly became a tense protest against proposed security laws, with officers wading into the crowds of several thousand to haul away suspected troublemakers.

Several hundred people protested against rising military spending in Germany by forming a human chain in Berlin's government quarter on Saturday.

Thousands protested in Paris on Saturday to denounce police violence and President Emmanuel Macron's security policy plans which the demonstrators say would crimp civil liberties.

London Police has reported on Saturday that they had made 155 arrests as they tried to break up anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests. The police said the arrests had been made for different offences including assaulting a police officer, possession of drugs and breaching coronavirus restrictions. 

A fresh demonstration against the attempt to tighten Poland's abortion law resulted in minor clashes with police, while officers used tear gas against protesters, dpa reported. Several thousand people protested on Wednesday evening amid high police presence in central Warsaw.

Several thousand people banging saucepans and blowing whistles gathered in central Berlin on Wednesday to protest against Angela Merkel’s plans to give her government powers to enforce restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, news wires reported.