Demonstration News

Montreal - Several thousand people came out in Canada's biggest cities to call for the legalization of marijuana -- a yearly protest that happens internationally on April 20.

Pungesti - US energy major Chevron, shielded by barbed wire, under police protection and under fire from egg throwers, is in trouble in Romania with villagers angry at its drive to drill for shale gas.

Athens - Police in Athens scuffled with protesters opposed to shops opening on Sunday, a week before Orthodox Easter.The incident occurred on the capital's main shopping street.

Barcelona - Anti-eviction activists blocked Wednesday the entrance to 12 branches of Spain's Banco Popular bank, which they accuse of not doing enough to prevent struggling mortgage holders from losing their homes.

- An Italian businessman ended a three-day protest on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, calling on Pope Francis to help victims of Italy's economic crisis.

Brussels - Several thousand European separatists, overwhelmingly Flemish but also Catalans, Scots and South Tyroleans, demonstrated in Brussels on Sunday for the right to self-determination.

Caracas - Following weeks of violent protests, Venezuela's leftist government agreed to having an outside "witness" to ease stalled talks with its political opposition.

Lima - Police clashed with independent miners in the Peruvian capital Wednesday, spraying them with tear gas and arresting 23 after marchers who want in to a government mining plan hurled stones.Peru, where mining is the biggest growth industry, has an estima...

Caracas - A Venezuelan opposition leader jailed for a month urged supporters Tuesday to maintain their fight against socialist President Nicolas Maduro's protest-hit government.As the size of demonstrations seemed to start to wane, Leopoldo Lopez said in a handw...

Moscow - It has taken two weeks for Crimea to slip from Ukrainian control and into Russia's grasp.The peninsula was "gifted" to Ukraine in 1954 by then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, a largely symbolic administrative shift for fellow republics of the USSR.It ...