Anti-riot police gear upgrade predated Covid demos police say
The police are set for significant anti-riot control equipment upgrades, of which among them are five new vehicles and thousands of batons. According to publicly...
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Police scouring social media, warn protest organisers against planning any demos
Police said on Thursday they had identified and warned certain members of the public who were planning to participate in demonstrations after the health minister...
Two Nicosia crossings closed temporarily as a precaution
Two crossing points in Nicosia were temporarily closed on Thursday as a precaution ahead of events on both sides of the divide marking the events...
Pussy protests and villains
How nice to see the protests in London against a democratic elected President of the US led by the Lord Mayor. Did I miss the...
Austria summons Turkish ambassador over pro-Erdogan demonstrations
Austria has summoned Turkey’s ambassador to explain Ankara’s links to demonstrations in Austria in support of Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan, who is leading a crackdown...
Anastasiades calls for end to ‘patriotic hooliganism’
President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday called for an end to hooliganism associated with patriotism as it was giving fodder to anti-solution elements. He was referring...
All 15 teens in UDI attacks charged and released
All 15 teenagers arrested in connection with the attack on Turkish Cypriots were charged and released, police said on Friday. The suspects are all aged...
Nicolaou orders probe into claims police stood by during attacks on Turkish Cypriots (Update 2)
By George Psyllides The search for those who attacked Turkish Cypriots on Monday while pupils were out on the streets of Nicosia to protest the...
Our View: The growing popularity of one-hour work stoppages
ONE-HOUR work stoppages have become very fashionable. Yesterday the bank employees union ETYK called a one-hour work stoppage at the Central Bank so that its...
Anti-austerity demo welcomes Draghi to Cyprus
By Evie Andreou AROUND 4,000 protesters participated in the mass anti–austerity rally on Wednesday evening outside the Filoxenia conference centre in Nicosia while the European...
Mass rally to protest ECB meeting in Nicosia
LABOUR, pensioner and farmer unions are mobilising for a mass rally planned for next week to protest a meeting here of the Governing Council of...
Clashes end Belgian unions’ first major protest against new government
By Philip Blenkinsop and Robert-Jan Bartunek Belgian police and a few hundred protesters, including many dockers, clashed in central Brussels on Thursday after a largely...
Turkish police fire teargas at protesters on anniversary of unrest
Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Saturday to disperse protesters in central Istanbul who sought to mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s...
Days in the twilight zone
By Jean Christou MOST people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing during a major event, and even more so a traumatic...
Ukraine police charge protesters after nation’s bloodiest day
Ukrainian riot police charged protesters occupying a central Kiev square early on Wednesday after the bloodiest day since the former Soviet republic, caught in a...
Embattled Thai PM easily survives no-confidence vote
Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra breezed through a no-confidence vote in parliament on Thursday as confusion emerged over the goals of an anti-government protest...
Municipal workers, nurses, pensioners protest against austerity
Tuesday was a day of protests outside parliament and the finance ministry as nurses, pensioners and municipality workers all gathered to voice their discontent at...
Thousands of Turks defy Erdogan as protests rumble on
By Nick Tattersall Thousands of Turks dug in on Saturday for a weekend of anti-government demonstrations despite Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for an immediate...