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French MPs held a minute's silence in tribute to the teenager whose death at point-blank range by police in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday sparked violent protests. IMAGES
Images from the Sri Lankan town of Rambukkana on Wednesday, a day after clashes between police and demonstrators resulted in the death of a protester after being shot. An indefinite curfew has been imposed in the area. The South Asian country is in the grip of its most painful economic downturn since independence in 1948, with regular blackouts and severe shortages of fuel and other goods causing widespread misery. Huge protests have called for the resignation of the government, which is preparing to negotiate an urgently needed bailout with the International Monetary Fund. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrive at the police station in Rambouillet, a wealthy commuter town 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Paris, where a police officer was stabbed to death in the building's airlock. (COMPLETES VID98L8EL_EN) IMAGES
A woman administrator was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man at a police station southwest of Paris on Friday, the local prosecutor's office and a police source told AFP. The attacker, a Tunisian, was fatally wounded when officers opened fire on him at the station in Rambouillet, a wealthy commuter town 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Paris, a police source told AFP on condition of anonymity. IMAGES
In Johannesburg, students burn tyres and demonstrate after a passerby was shot dead amid protests over student debt. Students began sporadic protests in early January over the alleged exclusion of some students by a government-sponsored tuition aid scheme. They are demanding that the University of the Witwatersrand allows all students with outstanding debt to register for the 2021 academic year. IMAGES
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