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The embassy originally told Danish media that it had removed the flags because they had been put up without coordination with the embassy. But the move was slammed by politicians and veterans' representatives.

The judicial branch also pushed back on Trump's actions in Minneapolis on Tuesday, when a US judge blocked the deportation of a five-year-old boy and his father, who were detained last week in another incident that went viral.

Relatives are pressed for large sums of money, forced to falsely claim dead protesters were members of the security forces such as youth militia the Basij, and prevented from holding proper funerals, they charge.

South Africa's Film and TV industry has taken to the streets.

European countries have already ramped up defence budgets since Russia invaded Ukraine, and agreed last year to massively hike NATO's spending target under pressure from Trump.