Water cannon

Police in Athens detained 24 people on Friday ahead of protests marking the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008.

Despite heavy rainfall in the capital, around 5,000 police officers are expected to patrol the city, focusing on the Exarchia neighborhood where the shooting took place.

Farmers have set up roadblocks, with the police responding with water cannon – The meeting of the 27 EU Agriculture Ministers is surrounded by a cluster of 900 tractors

At least 26 officers were injured during an operation to disperse a large crowd that gathered in the Bois de la Cambre park on the south side of the Belgian capital, the agency reported citing a police spokesman.

Water cannons and mounted policemen were deployed.

Hong Kong police on Aug. 25 for the first time rolled out water cannon trucks in clashes with protesters, after months of escalating violence, but stopped short of using them.

Belgian police and protesting off-duty soldiers clashed on Wednesday in Brussels.

AFP is quoting authorities as saying that 8,500 soldiers took part in the demonstration, and that riot police fired water cannon "after receiving projectiles of smoke bombs and firecrackers from the protestors."

Turkish riot police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered outside daily Zaman on March 5, a day after it was seized in a violent raid

Turkish riot police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered outside daily Zaman on March 5, a day after it was seized in a violent raid

Turkish police have intervened using water cannon and tear gas against locals and environmentalists in the northeastern province of Artvin’s Cerattepe are after protesters sought to march to the site of a controversial mining project

Police have intervened with water cannon and tear gas against a rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır that was called to protest a military-imposed curfew in its Sur district that has been in effect for a month

Turkish police have intervened with tear gas and water cannons to a group protesting the military operations and curfews in the southeastern districts of Cizre, Silopi and Sur