Hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish protesters gathered in Sulaimania, meeting a heavy presence by the military and riot police, with armored fighting vehicles present across the city on all roads. 3 members of parliament were also arrested in Sulaimania after heavy police crackdowns with tear gas and rubber bullets led to dozens of detainmnents.
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Dozens of protesters marched in Santiago to demand that the government halt pension cuts as well as pay them out to elderly people who are also houseless, who have been widely excluded from receiving social benefits. Demonstrators also attacked the state policy of handing out the job of pensions to life insurance companies, which are widely viewed in Chile as negligent.
Dozens of students in the small island city of Siros marched against the law proposed by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which would restore police to university campuses across Greece for the first time since 1975 with the fall of the military dictatorship.
Demonstrators gathered across Spain to counterprotest and march on the day of Francisco Franco’s death, the fascist leader of Spain for more than 15 years. Antifascists held thousand-strong protests in Valladolid and Canillejas, in northeastern Madrid. Many fascists also protested in several cities, inciting counter-demonstrations where they did happen.
Barricades went up across Beirut in solidarity with the families of victims of the August explosion, demanding justice for the corrupt officials responsible for the mismanagement of the facility whose collapse caused 158 deaths and over 7000 injuries.