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Images show Berlin's Brandenburg Gate splattered with orange paint after activists from the "Last Generation" ("Letzte Generation") environmental collective spray-painted the six pillars of the emblematic monument to warn of the urgency of global warming and demand a change in the German government's policy. The movement is calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels by 2030 at the latest. Police arrested around ten activists near the gate, some of whom were still sitting on the ground, handcuffed. IMAGES
Environmental activists from Attac, Greenpeace and Alternatiba sprayed the floor of the Place de la Bourse with green paint and inscribed the message "Welcome to the Greenwashing Summit" at the entrance to the Palais Brongniart, which will host the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact. IMAGES
An unusual wedding ceremony took place in San Jacinto Amilpas, Mexico last weekend. A group of Mexican women were led to the altar by Peruvian activist Richard Torres to exchange their vows and tie the knot with trees. Brides were dressed in traditional wedding gowns as they approached their tree-grooms to share a kiss. Instrument players, people in traditional dress, and a few members of the press joined the wedding procession and cheered as the brides embraced and kissed their wooden husbands.
Lawyers representing civil parties and accused at the trial of the 2018 Strasbourg Christmas market attack that killed five people, arrive at the Paris criminal court, which is due to deliver its verdict against four men on trial in the case. IMAGES
The façade of a Lisbon hotel used as the centre-right coalition's HQ for election night was covered in red paint by climate activists. 'There is no victory in guaranteeing climate chaos' claimed the Climáximo collective in a press release. IMAGES
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