Protest News
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Los Angeles -
Fifty years after raising clenched fists in protest during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the shockwaves unleashed by John Carlos and Tommie Smith's salute of defiance are still rippling around the sporting world.
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Rome -
The head of Italy's far-right League on Saturday shrugged off a paper bomb attack on a local party office, a day after demonstrators burned his effigy in the first large protests since the coalition government took power.
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Washington -
Police on Saturday began arresting protesters who had gathered just feet (meters) from the entrance to the United States Capitol building, despite a barricade blocking off the area, as legislators inside prepared to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the...
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Mexico -
Veterans of Mexico's 1968 student movement and younger generations of activists marched Tuesday in Mexico City to remember the day 50 years ago when army troops massacred hundreds of people at a peaceful protest.
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Mexico -
Mexico marked the 50th anniversary Tuesday of the day when army troops massacred hundreds of student demonstrators just days before the 1968 Olympics -- one of the darkest episodes in a year of global turbulence.
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Yerevan -
Thousands of Armenians heeded a call by reformist Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to protest in the capital Yerevan on Tuesday as MPs approved a bill making it harder to disband parliament and hold snap elections.
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Protesters marched in Hong Kong Monday against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threat.
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Ouagadougou -
Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, the first major protest against the leadership of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
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Berlin -
The German authorities on Wednesday suspended an operation to evict protesters, holed up in forest treehouses to block the expansion of an open-pit coal mine, after the death of a journalist.
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Berlin -
Germany's large Kurdish community said Monday it had been "banned" by Berlin authorities from holding a rally at the Brandenburg Gate during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month.
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Istanbul -
Turkish security forces on Friday fired tear gas at construction workers at Istanbul's new airport who were protesting dangerous working conditions at the site as it prepares to open for business next month, local media reported.
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Moscow -
An activist from the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who staged a pitch invasion during the 2018 football World Cup final in Moscow has been hospitalised with suspected poisoning, members of the punk collective said Thursday.
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German activists living in treehouses to protect an ancient forest from being razed for a nearby coal mine on Thursday vowed to resist as police began evicting them, in a major escalation of the long-running environmental battle.
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Basra -
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sought to ease tensions in Iraq's oil-rich south on Monday with a visit to Basra, rocked by deadly protests over alleged corruption and government neglect.
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Caracas -
Venezuela's government announced it would hold a massive march Tuesday against US meddling after reports that US officials met secretly with Venezuelan military officers to discuss plans to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
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San Francisco -
A climate protest rolling across the world's time zones Saturday peaked in San Francisco, where thousands marched in a bid to shame political leader into stepping up action on global warming.
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Basra -
At least 12 people have been killed in several days of protests over the lack of public services in Iraq's southern city of Basra, the health ministry said on Saturday.
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Mytilene -
Workers at a camp for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos said Friday they will go on strike to protest overcrowding, as the government conceded conditions were "near impossible".
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Basra -
Iraqi protesters on Friday torched the Iranian consulate in the southern city of Basra in fresh demonstrations over poor public services after parliament called for an emergency session on the unrest.
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Basra -
Thousands of people protested on Thursday outside local government offices in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, partly damaged by fire in demonstrations that have seen seven people killed this week.
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Apo -
Saudi King Salman's brother has played down controversial remarks he made to anti-Saudi protesters in London that sparked furious speculation about possible discord within the royal family.
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Bejing -
Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with the local school system.
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Moscow -
Kremlin critic Sergei Udaltsov who went on hunger strike after being jailed for 30 days for burning portraits of Russian leaders was hospitalised again on Sunday, his wife said.
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Istanbul -
Istanbul police on Saturday broke up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers remembering the disappearance of relatives in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining over 20 people as participants marked the 700th such weekly protest.
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Kathmandu -
One person was killed and dozens injured in Nepal when police opened fire on protesters demanding action over the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, officials said Saturday.
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Cox's Bazar -
Thousands of Rohingya refugees staged protests for "justice" Saturday on the first anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown that forced them to flee to camps in Bangladesh.
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Bucharest -
Faced with criticism of police violence against a massive anti-corruption protest, Romania's ruling party strongman Liviu Dragnea has raised eyebrows with a string of bizarre, unsubstantiated claims including a "failed coup" and an assassination plot.
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Rabat -
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned a total of 188 people linked to the "Hirak" protest movement on the occasion of Islam's Eid al-Adha religious feast, the National Council on Human Rights said Tuesday.
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Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has written a letter to the EU describing last week's protests in Bucharest as an attempt to overthrow the government and defending the handling of the demonstrations by the police, Romanian media reported on Fr...
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Moscow -
Hundreds of people, many clutching stuffed toys, rallied in Moscow on Wednesday to demand the release of two teenagers accused of "extremism" in a case they say is part of a growing Kremlin crackdown on Russian youth.
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Protest Image
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators spray fumes with the colours of the Palestinian flag, on the Republique square in Paris, during a banned demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, on July 26, 2014 Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP
March Against Monsanto Edmonton, October 18, 2014.
Saturday in New York City during the Occupy Wall Street Protest david_shankbone
Occupy Vancouver protestors pack up their former Occupy site and move one block away to the grounds of the provincial courthouse. Vancouver Media Co-Op
Thailand protesters, known as red shirts, march through Bangkok and vow to topple the Thai government YouTube screenshot/AssociatedPress
Man with symbolic upside down umbrella on Avenue Saxe, Lyon.
Protest of Ten Commandments monument in Starke, Florida.
Courtesy of Nicole Martin
Police brutally attacked protesting students in Valencia. ROAR Mag
A protest in Damscus, Syria Flickr user syriana2011
Farmers in Poland protest against sale of farmland to foreign multinationals. Protest Rolników
Gagged protestors, some holding images of self-immolation deaths.
A protest by Tunisians in Paris in solidarity with those back home. gwenflickr
Sonya Bryskine, Falun Gong practitioner and ‘MC’, speaking at the rally.
Local police & firefighters protest in front of the Town Hall in Fuengirola on 19 February 2013.
A protest march was held in Fuengirola on April 13 to protest the Town Hall's decision to hold the Day of the Dog on the Day of the Second Republic of Spain. Lobo Estepario
As protesters raised angry voices outside of Toronto's City Hall tonight the city council passed the 2012 budget.
The lone protester, Province House, Charlottetown PEI,
Prince William and Kate Canadian tour,
July 2011
Since Israel's raid of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the world's attention has been captured and focused on the Middle East. Supporters of Israel and Palestine stood in front of the Israeli Consulate in Toronto to show their support of their respective side.
Protests against worldwide NSA surveillance in Germany. YouTube
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