Protests over India's controversial citizenship law have erupted across several parts of the country.
Protests broke out mostly around university campuses in major cities such as Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and the capital New Delhi.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the New Delhi police headquarters to protest against alleged police brutality after more than 100 students of Jamia Millia Islamia University were detained following violent clashes.
Some Bollywood celebrities like actress Konkona Sen Sharma, and directors Mahesh Bhatt and Anubhav Sinha, also criticized the police action on Twitter and called on others to speak up.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to appeal for calm.
"No Indian has anything to worry regarding this act. This act is only for those who have faced years of persecution outside and have no other place to go except India," he wrote.
"This is the time to maintain peace, unity and brotherhood."
Israel bombarded northern Gaza overnight in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, causing panic amongst residents and flattening neighbourhoods in an area from which the Israeli army had previously down its troops, residents said on Tuesday.
Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured seven people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, two of them children, and also targeted Kyiv, the capital, Ukraine's military officials said early on Tuesday.
Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and major chipmaker TSMC said it saw no impact on operations.
Two Malaysian navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a naval parade on Tuesday, killing all 10 crew members aboard, the navy said in a statement.
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