At least two protesters were shot dead in Kenya on Monday as anti-government protests turned violent, with police opening fire to disperse demonstrators in the country's third biggest city, Kisumu.

Kenya's opposition CORD alliance has been staging weekly protests every Monday but one since late April to demand a shake-up of the country's electoral commission ahead of presidential elections in August next year.

Indian prosecutors sought the death penalty on Monday for 24 Hindus convicted over a massacre during religious riots in 2002 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state where it happened.

Judge P.B Desai heard submissions from the prosecution as well as lawyers representing the 24 convicted over the killings, before adjourning final sentencing until Thursday.

A visit by Greece's foreign minister to Albania was met with a protest Monday by the Cham community, which was expelled from northwestern Greece during World War II after Athens claimed they had collaborated with the country's German occupiers.

A few hundred supporters of the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity skirmished with police as they tried to block the entrance of the Foreign Ministry in the capital, Tirana, as Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias was to arrive.

U.N. rights experts on Monday urged the Philippines' president elect Rodrigo Duterte to stop instigating deadly violence, especially against journalists, slamming his comments as dangerously irresponsible.

U.N. expert on summary executions Christof Heyns described recent remarks by Duterte as "irresponsible in the extreme, and unbecoming of any leader."

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron was pelted with eggs by angry union activists Monday in a sign that labor tensions are even taking the shine off the country's most popular minister.

The 38-year-old former Rothschild banker regularly polls higher than France's deeply unpopular president and prime minister, and has recently been accused of harboring a desire to be president.

French authorities on Monday evacuated 1,850 migrants from a tent camp which had sprung up in a Paris park, where conditions had nosedived after one of the wettest Mays on record.

The Paris regional government said the operation was the biggest carried out in the capital where makeshift camps have mushroomed in recent months as France struggles to accommodate asylum seekers.

Ukraine said Monday it had arrested a suspected far-right French extremist with a huge arsenal of weapons who allegedly planned to attack the European Championships in France this week.

The arrest added to jitters over the staging of European football's showcase event in France after twin attacks in Paris last year claimed by the Islamic State group killed 147.

Joachim Gauck made his name as a human rights activist under communism and later restored the relevance of the president's ceremonial office with bold stands on the refugee crisis and Germany's growing role on the world stage.

Gauck, 76, who announced Monday that he would not stand for a second term next year due to his advanced age, looks back on a remarkable biography that parallels his country's tumultuous history.

Romania's Social Democrats topped the polls in weekend municipal elections that were overshadowed by corruption scandals, with their candidate becoming the first female mayor of Bucharest, partial results showed Monday.

Gabriela Firea, a 43-year-old former journalist backed by a leftist alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Union for the Progress of Romania, received 43.56 percent of the vote in the capital.

German President Joachim Gauck said Monday that he would not stand for a second term, creating a political headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of an election year.

The popular Gauck, 76, who has held the largely ceremonial post of head of state since 2012, made the announcement at Berlin's Bellevue Palace, citing his advanced age.