Clashes erupted between French protesters and police in Rennes, a day after France's Constitutional Council approved the infamous pension-age increase plan in a ruling.

Police and the military patrolled Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo as shops slowly opened a day after a state of emergency was declared to tackle growing unrest amid an unprecedented economic crisis.

Canadian police claim to have retaken the capital Ottawa which has been hit along with other cities by weeks-long demonstrations and seen the Emergency Act imposed for the second time in the country's history.