Counting the cost: May Day protests around the world
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Your support makes all the difference.A day of protests around the world yesterday was marred by violence.
Police in Berlin and Hamburg made 80 arrests after violent confrontations with masked far-left activists. A woman in Berlin was in a critical condition after being hit on the head by a bottle when anarchists lit a fire and pelted firefighters with missiles.
Police in Zurich, Switzerland, fired rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters who defied a city centre marching ban.
Three people died and many were critically wounded when a grenade was thrown at people dancing on a basketball court in Cotabato, in the southern Philippines.
Police in armoured vehicles clashed with 1,500 protesters in Tunceli, Turkey, and arrested 20 including a Kurdish political leader.
Pro-Kremlin parties and trade unions staged a 140,000-strong rally near Red Square in Moscow.
In Sydney, mounted police repeatedly charged into 500 demonstrators blockading the offices of a company that runs five refugee detention centres.
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