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The chief cleric of India's biggest mosque, the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, led more than 4,000 Muslims in a march through the capital.
Demonstrators protested in the Indonesia capital Jakarta outside the British, US and Australian embassies.
Rallies also took place across the world on Saturday.
In London protesters marched through the capital, ending in an afternoon of speeches in Hyde Park with a crowd of about 200,000 people, according to a police estimate.
The Stop the War Coalition said half a million had attended, still well down on the massive march on 15 February, with fellow organisers CND saying the total was between 200,000 and 300,000.
In New York City, about 100,000 people marched at lunchtime from Times Square to Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park, filling 20 city blocks.
In Washington, several hundred protesters, chanting "No blood for oil," strode through the streets and rallied in front of the White House.
But pro-war rallies were also reported in some cities, like Atlanta, Chicago, and Lansing, Michigan.
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