Nationalists gathered in Yerevan following a peace deal giving away Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan signed by the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan. Rioting and clashes with the police occurred all across Yerevan, with protesters storming the Parliament and lynching the deputy Prime Minister, nearly killing him. 17 opposition parties have called for protests the next day as well, and the crisis seems unlikely to be contained provided that Russian troops will remain in Karabakh only.
Hundreds of students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would enable the government of Greece to create a police force in universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched against imperialism, demanding that the government exit from NATO and the EU. Demonstrators held banners with insignias of Greece’s communist party, KKE, and the splinter group KKE (M-L).
Thousands of protesters marched on the Presidential Palace through the Alameda, clashing with police who used chemical water cannons which caused scars and burns on several hundred demonstrators. Several dozen protesters were also injured by police, with a few possibly suffering concussions from being slammed against a wall by a water cannon.
Hundreds of Chilean public sector workers gathered outside of the former National Congress in Santiago to protest for a higher budget and raises for all employees of the government.
