Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has claimed victory in a TV address to the nation and said his rival Juan Guaido failed. Guaido insists Maduro has lost control of the military and asked the people to keep on protesting after thousands came onto the streets on May day.

Hundreds more protesters join demonstrations in the Sudananese capital Khartoum. They 'piled on' the roof of a train on their way to the sit-in demonstrations outside the Defence Ministry headquarters, leaving from the birthplace of the uprising that toppled Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir.

Georgian police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest by residents of a mountainous region against the construction of a hydropower plant.

Environmental campaigners Greenpeace demonstrated outside Nestle's headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, accusing the company of not doing enough to reduce single-use plastics.

Australian police arrested 38 animal rights activists on Monday (April 8) after they blocked peak hour traffic in Melbourne in protests to mark the first anniversary of a film, Dominion, about factory farming.

Last year property prices in the German capital rose by 20 percent.

Generations X and Z join forces to pressure the Belgian Parliament to pass a climate bill

Thousands of people have marched in Buenos Aires to demand that abortion be made illegal in Argentina.

Thousands of people rallied in Belgrade on Saturday, as demonstrations against Serbian President Aleksandar Vuci and his government entered a third month.

Anti-government protesters in Serbia step up their campaign, a day after storming the headquarters of state television.

Thousands of pro-Catalan independence supporters marched in Spain's capital over the trial of 12 separatist leaders who face prison sentences for their role in the failed independence bid.

Albanian police have fired tear gas and used water cannon in an effort to disperse protesters trying to break into parliament.

France's Gilets Jaunes take to the streets for 18th consecutive weekend as President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his Grand Debat on Friday.

Tension is mounting in the Venezuelan capital Caracas amid calls by the rival political camps for protests.

Inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Anouna de De Wever is one of the founders of the movement "Youth for Climate"

Thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office on Friday (March 1) in the country's biggest anti-government demonstrations since the Arab Spring eight years ago.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013 and is rarely seen in public.

At 16, Greta Thunberg is leading a youth movement calling for action to prevent climate change.

96 graves in the village of Quatzenheim near Strasbourg had been vandalised with swastikas.