Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:
UNITED STATES
VIRGINIA
Police in Richmond, Virgina, have broken up an Occupy Wall Street camp where protesters had set up a tent city, complete with a makeshift library, kitchen and portable toilets.
Police spokesman Gene Lepley says officers began clearing the park early Monday around 1 a.m. He says most of the dozens of protesters there left when told to and around a dozen who stayed were arrested for trespassing.
Lepley said nine people were charged with either trespassing or obstruction of justice.
TEXAS
Police in Austin, Texas, made 39 arrests early Sunday as they moved to enforce a new rule banning food tables in the City Hall plaza where protesters have camped out. Some protesters surrounded the tables with arms linked.
Most were charged with criminal trespass, Police Chief Art Acevedo said. No injuries were reported.
CALIFORNIA
The roommate of an Iraq War veteran seriously injured in a clash with police during an anti-Wall Street protest says Scott Olsen is doing well and doctors say he'll make a full recovery. Keith Shannon served with the 24-year-old former Marine in Iraq.
He tells The Associated Press that he visited Olsen at a medical facility Sunday and he "seems to be doing well." Shannon says Olsen still can't talk but doctors expect him to make a full recovery. Olsen suffered a fractured skull and other head injuries during the clash Tuesday. Police are investigating how Olsen was struck by a projectile.
OREGON
Police arrested about 30 anti-Wall Street protesters in Portland early Sunday after they refused to leave a park in an affluent district. Hundreds gathered in Jamison Square Saturday evening to defy a midnight curfew to vacate.
As police moved in around 2 a.m. most of the protesters backed off, but a core group of 27 to 30 people sat in a circle in the park and awaited arrest. An Associated Press photographer said most of the protesters went limp and police carried or dragged them away. There was no violence during the arrests, which took about 90 minutes.
The protesters ? all appearing to be in their 20s and 30s with many were wearing Halloween-style face paint ? were handcuffed before they were place in police vans and driven off.
COLORADO
Denver's Civic Center Park was calm Sunday a day after Occupy Wall Street protesters clashed with police in the city's most violent confrontation yet. About 100 people slept overnight in the park, lying near sidewalks under sleeping bags and tarps. There were no tents to be seen, after Denver police and other agencies entered the park Saturday afternoon to tear down tents put up by protesters earlier in the day.
Denver Police say 15 people who tried to interfere with the tent removal were arrested. Earlier Saturday afternoon, five additional people were arrested after a scuffle with police in which one officer was knocked to the ground and others were allegedly kicked. About 2,000 people participated in Saturday's march, the fourth weekend for Occupy Wall Street marches through Denver.
EUROPE
ENGLAND
Graeme Knowles, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, says he is resigning following criticism over the church's handling of anti-capitalist protests on its grounds. He said Monday that as criticism of the cathedral has mounted in the press and public opinion, his position has become untenable.
Last week, Giles Fraser, a senior St. Paul's Cathedral priest who had welcomed the anti-capitalist demonstrators to camp outside the landmark, also resigned. He said he did so because he feared moves to evict the protesters could end in violence.
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