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The Royal Family return to Windsor Castle from Royal Ascot along the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park. Royal Ascot began its programme of horse racing today and expects to welcome 280,000 racegoers over the next five days.
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Iranian demonstrators protested outside 10 Downing Street, London, after the Camp Liberty refugee camp in Iraq, which houses many Iranian dissidents, was targeted by rocket attacks reported to have resulted in two casualties and dozens of injuries.
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A protest against the persecution, detention, incarceration and torture by the Chinese authorities of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline involving meditation and qigong exercises, was organised in London by Friends of Falun Gong UK.
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A protest by Sikh organisation Kesri Lehar outside Downing Street calling for Professor Bhai Davinderpal Singh Bhullar to be saved from the death penalty in India has now been running for 65 days continuously.
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A protest calling for abattoirs to be closed and for an end to cruelty to animals was organised in Piccadilly Circus, London, by Animal Equality, Animal Aid and the Vegan Society. Simultaneous protests took place around the world.
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"Stop The War Coalition" organised a protest against escalating Western intervention in Syria outside the US Embassy in London. The protest was directed in particular at US and British plans for military intervention in Syria.
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Palestinian international footballer Mahmoud Sarsak spoke at a meeting in London of his 3-year imprisonment in Israel, during which time he was tortured, of his subsequent hunger strike and of UEFA's decision to award the Under 21 finals to Israel.
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Pro-Palestinian activists attended a protest organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign outside the Houses of Parliament in London to commemorate the Nakba, or Catastrophe, which took place 65 years ago in Palestine.
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