Demonstrations are held in several cities and police clash with protesters in Milan and Turin.

RIOTERS in Philadelphia have spiralled out of control after video footage emerged of an officer being run over as the police clashed with protestors.

Police in Italy have fired tear gas to disperse angry crowds in the northern cities of Turin and Milan after protests against the latest round of anti-coronavirus restrictions flared into violence, the Guardian writes. Luxury goods shops were ransacked in the centre of Turin as crowds of youths took to the streets after nightfall. Earlier on Monday, there were peaceful protests in several Italian cities.

Pro-choice protesters blocked roads and waved anti-government placards in some 50 cities across Poland on Monday in anger at last week's court ruling on banning most kinds of abortion, Polish media report. Poland's justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, the same day, ordered the prosecution service to go after demonstrators who had disrupted church services on Sunday on grounds of "criminal actions" against worshipers. More protests are expected on Tuesday.

Police clashed with demonstrators in Milan, Turin and Naples shortly after new rules came into force.

Emotions were running high in Philadelphia on Monday after police officers fatally shot a man armed with a knife.

Demonstrations against a controversial police unit have been taking place for two weeks.

Two of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement agencies are preparing for the possibility of more civil unrest amid a contentious election, according to officials, part of a concerted effort by federal and local authorities to prepare for large-scale protests.