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People rally outside the Russian embassy in London following the death of Alexei Navalny. Russian authorities say Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent critic, has died in an Arctic prison after suffering a sudden illness. Participants are seen holding signs reading "Putin is a murderer", or "we are Navalny". IMAGES
Nearly 30,000 supporters of the coup in Niger gather in a stadium in the capital, Niamey. The rally takes place as the deadline set by the west African bloc -- the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- for the military to relinquish control of the country, or face possible armed intervention, is set to lapse. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the parliament speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet lay wreaths in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, eight years after the terrorist attack that decimated its editorial staff on January 7, 2015. IMAGES
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo slams the lack of condemnation from religious leaders after the attack on American-British writer Salman Rushdie. IMAGES
Police gather in Moscow as a rally to protest against Russian military action in Ukraine is expected to start. They patrol and can be seen arresting two people, carrying them away towards parked police vans. IMAGES