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Hong Kong braces for weekend mass demonstrations after Halloween clashes
Hong Kong cleaned up its famed party zone Lan Kwai Fong on Friday after a night of clashes marred Halloween festivities when police fired tear...
Hong Kong braces for Halloween havoc as protesters target party district
Hong Kong is bracing for a rowdy and possibly hugely dangerous Halloween on Thursday, when thousands of pro-democracy protesters, many wearing banned face masks, plan to...
Climate-change protesters poised to kick off global wave of street marches
As world leaders begin arriving for a summit at the United Nations on accelerating action to address climate threats, adults are planning to join students in an...
Protesters vow to go ahead with Heathrow disruption despite arrests
Climate-change activists have vowed to go ahead with plans to disrupt Heathrow with drones on Friday morning, despite the arrest of five of their members...
Hong Kong students rally peacefully before brief night skirmishes
Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students boycotted class and rallied peacefully for democracy on Monday, the latest acts of defiance in an anti-government...
Contract workers protest outside palace
Hundreds of public contract workers called for a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and cabinet members during a protest in front of the presidential palace...
Scores gather at palace for second week to protest killings
Scores of people gathered on Friday afternoon outside the Presidential Palace for the second week to demonstrate for the victims of the serial killer and...
Monks to join residents in protest over asphalt plant
MONKS from Stavrovouni monastery are joining forces with residents of Pyrga and Kornos in mobiliaing against the planned construction of an asphalt production and recycling...
Venezuelan general urges military to disavow Maduro as opposition stages rallies
An active Venezuelan general called on the armed forces to rebel against President Nicolas Maduro and to recognize the opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim chief...
Catalan separatists seethe at Spanish cabinet visit (Update 2)
Police dragged Catalan separatists off roads and arrested 11 during protests on Friday as Spain‘s government brought a cabinet meeting to regional capital Barcelona in both...
Death toll in French ‘yellow vest’ protests rises to nine
The death toll linked to France’s anti-government “yellow vest” protests has risen to nine, the government said on Thursday, as demonstrators kept up major disruptions...
Protesters in France block access to three fuel depots – Total
French protesters angered by higher fuel taxes blocked access to three oil depots on Monday, including two run by Total, the company said, as protests...
TC police found guilty of using excessive violence
Judge rules against Turkish Cypriot police for ‘despotic’ role in 2011 anti-Erdogan demonstrations By Esra Aygin In a landmark decision last week, a Turkish Cypriot...
Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in Gaza border protest- medics
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians and wounded 232, 180 of them from live fire, during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday,...
Dromolaxia-Meneou protest against co-op branch closure
Over 500 residents of the Dromolaxia-Meneou municipality in the Larnaca district attended a protest on Sunday morning against the closing down of the local Cooperative...
Top Iraq cleric demands end to violence as deadly protests rage
Iraq‘s most revered Shi’ite cleric called for a political shakeup in Baghdad and a halt to violence against demonstrators on Friday, after days of deadly...
Student activists disappear in southern China after police raid
Police in riot gear stormed an apartment in southern China on Friday where about 40 student activists and others supporting factory workers seeking to form a labour...
Jordan’s king replaces PM to defuse protests (Update)
Jordan‘s King Abdullah on Monday asked Omar al-Razzaz, a former World Bank economist, to form a new government after Hani Mulki resigned as prime minister...
Armenian police detain almost 200 in protests (Update)
By Hasmik Mkrtchyan Armenian police detained three opposition leaders on Sunday and held nearly 200 protesters during the latest demonstrations against the appointment of...
