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Tensions mar Paris protest as outrage over George Floyd's killing spreads beyond US

Several thousand people in Paris defied a virus-related ban on protests to pay homage to Floyd and Adama Traore, a French black man who died in police custody. Chanting "I can't breathe," thousands marched peacefully through Australia's largest city, while thousands more demonstrated in the Dutch capital of The Hague and hundreds rallied in Tel Aviv. Diplomatic ire percolated too, with the European Union's top foreign policy official saying the bloc was "shocked and appalled" by Floyd's death.