Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr has called on his supporters to continue a sit-in inside the parliament until his demands are met, days after they breached Baghdad's heavily fortified "green zone" and occupied the country's legislature.

Protesters gathered near the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum on Friday.

Rights activists and families of Palestinian prisoners in Gaza have held a sit-in in support of thousands of inmates in Israeli prisons.

Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip mark the International Day of Disabled Persons amid Israel’s blockade and harsh humanitarian conditions.

Israeli forces attack a sit-in held in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds to protest displacement of Palestinian families.

The UN says it is ‘disturbed’ by the Bahraini forces’ violent attitude.

Italians have held sit-in protests in a number of cities, urging the government to re-open the education sector across the country.