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We look back at some of the highlights from this week's No Comment section.

Georgia

Georgia's PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili resigns

Prime Minister Kvirikashvili resigns over "different points of view" with ruling party and amidst a month of anti-government protests.

Gaza

Israeli troops kill 3, injure 600 others along Gaza border: medics

Some 10,000 Palestinians took part in the protest, according to the Israeli army, throwing rocks at troops, burning tyres, and hurling “a number of explosive devices and a grenade” across the fence.

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Beekeepers stage funeral for France's dying bee population

Bees in France are fast dying, say beekeepers who staged a mock funeral in central Paris on Thursday (June 7).

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Jordan

Jordan King's call for tax review fails to quell protests

Jordan's King Abdullah calls for a review of a controversial tax law as thousands take to the streets for a fifth night

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Clashes continue in Srinagar over death of a protester

Clashes between protesters and Indian security forces continued in Kashmir on Saturday, with police firing tear gas in response to protesters throwing rocks.

Romania

European Personality of the Year: Florin Badita, founder of Corruption

At just 30 years' old, Florin Badita has founded a movement that has single-handedly exposed endemic corruption in Romanian political life. Euronews' Sophie Claudet interviewed him to find out more.

France

Paris police don pyjamas for protest over working conditions

Demonstrators said their long hours would soon force them to sleep at work.

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Thousands of nationalist Alternative for Germany supporters march

France

France: Thousands protest against President Macron's economic reforms

Yet some of the reforms are popular polls suggest, such as at the state-owned SNCF railway company that would see an end to job-for-life contracts.

Brazil

Brazil struggles as truck driver protest halts food and fuel deliverie

State of emergency declared in Rio de Janeiro and megacity Sao Paulo.

Spain

Tourists in their own city

Feeling like tourists in their own city, locals in the Basque Country protest against the overcrowding of tourism, which has forced them out of their homes and into the surrounding villages.

USA

Royal wedding bishop Michael Curry leads protest at White House

Church leaders from various denominations joined the candlelight vigil

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Protest in front of former US embassy in Tehran, in solidarity with Palestinians

Hundreds of Iranian protesters gathered at the former US embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to show their solidarity with Palestinians.

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Israeli soldiers disperse protesters near Damascus Gate

Israeli border police forces and Palestinian protesters clashed near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on Tuesday.

Israel

Angry exchanges at the United Nations Security Council emergency meeting

Exchanges were between Israel and Palestinian envoys. A number of nations also expressed concern at the level of violence during Monday's protests

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Clashes between pro- and anti-Erdogan protesters in London

Scuffles broke out between two groups of protesters and police outside Downing Street, ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May later in the day.

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Israelis divided on US embassy move, police remove protest banner

Hours ahead of the opening ceremony for the new US embassy in Jerusalem, Israelis on both sides of the political divide on Monday expressed strong opinions on the move.

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Israeli forces kill 16 in Gaza protests hours before U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem

Israeli troops killed at least 16 Palestinians along the Gaza border on Monday (May 14), health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in Jerusalem.

Israel

Deadliest day as dozens of Palestinians killed on Gaza border

Dozens of Palestinians are killed and hundreds injured amid clashes on the Gaza border with Israeli troops.