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10.47pm GMT

Police used tear gas against protesters in Athens demonstrating against police violence on Sunday after footage of an officer beating a man during a coronavirus lockdown patrol went viral.

Around 500 people gathered at Nea Smyrni square in the southern Athens suburbs to demonstrate against the beating that took place at the same spot earlier in the day, AFP reports.

The country has a government that has totally lost control of the pandemic, and the only thing it knows how to do, according to the plan, is to use a heavy hand," said ex-premier Alexis Tsipras of the leftwing Syriza party.

10.19pm GMT

A German MP has announced his resignation after it was revealed that his company had made hundreds of thousands through deals to procure face masks, according to a report in Deutsche Welle.

Nikolas Lobel, a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, said that he would step down as a representative at the end of August and immediately leave his party's parliamentary group.