Autor: José Carmo

Fonte: Reuters

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Riots broke out in cities across the Netherlands, the third night in a row that police clashed with mobs of angry youths who set fires and threw rocks to protest COVID-19 restrictions. There were also clashes in Brussels with police firing water cannon and tear gas at demonstrators throwing rocks and smoke bombs.

Chile is headed for a polarized presidential election runoff next month after hard-right former congressman Jose Antonio Kast finished on top in the first-round vote, ahead of leftist lawmaker and former protest leader Gabriel Boric.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned that the migrant crisis on the Belarus border may be a prelude to “something much worse”, and Poland’s border guard said Belarusian forces were still ferrying migrants to the frontier.

The United Nations pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan’s banks, warning that a spike in people unable to repay loans, lower deposits and a cash liquidity crunch could cause the financial system to collapse within months.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told leaders of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a summit that Beijing would not “bully” its smaller regional neighbors, amid rising tension over the South China Sea.