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Students from across Greece protest in Athens against the planned introduction of private universities, a reform that has riled the country's higher education community. IMAGES
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a protest in London outside a major oil and gas industry meeting, warning that the "world is drowning in fossil fuels". "Behind these closed doors at the oil and money conference, spineless politicians are making deals and compromises with lobbyists from destructive industries, the fossil fuel industry," she tells protesters and media gathered outside the Intercontinental Park Lane hotel where the Energy Intelligence Forum is being held. SOUNDBITE
Drivers queue up in front of a gas station in London to fill their tanks. The British army is set to begin delivering petrol to fuel stations after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced the government to offer visa waivers to foreign truckers to plug the shortfall. IMAGES
Members of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion demonstrate in the heart of London, next to the London museum, against the financing of fossil fuel industries by lenders in the City, as part of two weeks of planned action. IMAGES
Supporters of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion gather on Trafalgar Square outside of the National Gallery in London for the first day of a two-week climate change protest campaign. The action is named 'Impossible Rebellion' and thousands of people expected to take part. IMAGES
Huge crowds protest in London against Britain's remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and the possible introduction of so-called vaccine passports. IMAGES