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Clashes erupted at a protest against police violence on the streets of Paris Saturday as protesters hurled projectiles and police fired back tear gas. Reuters Lucy Fielder has more. A standoff on the streets of Paris, as dozens of hooded protesters hurled projectiles at riot police, smashed up shop windows, torched cars and burned barricades, during a demonstration against police brutality. Police fired back volleys of tear gas. Thousands had set out marching peacefully before the clashes erupted to urge French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party to scrap a draft security law they fear would curb civil liberties. The bill would restrict rights to circulate images of police officers on duty, which critics say would make it harder to hold the police to account in a country where rights groups allege systemic racism. A backlash against the law was intensified by the beating of a Black man, music producer Michel Zecler, by several police officers. The incident was captured on CCTV and mobile phone footage that went viral and headed news bulletins. That's Reuters Lucy Fielder.

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched across the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on Saturday to push for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his handling of the conflict with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh. More than 20,000 protesters rallied in Yerevan on Saturday, chanting "Nikol, you traitor!" and "Nikol, go away!," then marched to the prime minister's official residence. Armenia's opposition parties warned Pashinyan there would be civil disobedience across the country if he does not resign by noon on Tuesday. He has refused to step down, defending a peace agreement as a painful but necessary move that prevented Azerbaijan from overrunning the entire Nagorno-Karabakh region. In 44 days of fighting that began September 27, Azerbaijani troops routed the Armenians, forcing Armenia to accept a November 10 peace deal that saw the return to Azerbaijan of a significant part of the separatist region.

A capsule containing material from an asteroid has parachuted back to Earth in South Australian after more than a year investigating the interstellar object. The capsule detached from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft and was picked up by cameras as a dazzling fireball streaking across the Australian sky. Hayabusa-2 blasted off in December of 2014 for the asteroid Ryugu in a pioneering mission to take samples that scientists hope will help reveal how life on Earth began. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd, VOA news.