We can beat Macron": Why women's anger is fuelling French pension protests

Unionists and left-wing parties in the French capital moved their rallies from the poorer eastern suburbs to the affluent 6th arrondissement (district) of central Paris, congregating along the fashion boulevards of the left bank. Organizers estimate that over half a million people attended (polic...

'We continue our revolution,' demonstrators in Iran said, dismissing reports that morality police had been 'disbanded.'

Iranian anti-regime protests occurred in September following the murder of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the infamous "morality police," despite widely publicized statements by an official implying that the contentious security unit had been abolished. According to our observers in Iran...

Tracking recent protests against China's zero-covid policy amid widespread surveillance

India Today investigates the latest surge of Covid-19 opposition in China, as authorities attempt to remove protest episodes from the social media environment.

At a news conference earlier today, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian answered questions concerning recent demo...

French media demand that Iran free a journalist reporting the Mahdi Amini protests.

French media outlets have demanded the release of a journalist assigned to cover protests in Iran for the Franco-German television network Arte, which reported his arrest.

Iranian native and French resident Vahid Shamsoddinnezhad was arrested in Iranian Kurdistan a month ago, Arte repor...

The call-up of Putin increases Russians' ire, protests, and violence

There are lengthy car lineups on the winding roads leading to the Russian border crossings with Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, as well as similar lines at airports.

furious protests, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but even in the distant far-north province of Yakutia and in ...

As a result of the oil shock, poorer countries are wracked by shortages and protests

The oil shock this year has had the greatest impact on developing countries. Many are reliant on imported petroleum, which is being suffocated by a combination of high international prices, weak currencies, and competition from wealthy nations recovering from the pandemic.

In countries ...

The Pakistani embassy in the United Arab Emirates has warned its nationals against holding protests

Pakistan's embassy in the UAE has issued a warning to its people not to stage rallies in the UAE.

Any type of parade or demonstration is prohibited, as is any misuse or out-of-context social media activity, according to an embassy caution released on Tuesday.

It comes just...

Prime Minister Modi announces that 3 farm laws will be cancelled

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a stunning announcement today, just ahead of key state elections. The Prime Minister addressed the nation at 9 am today and announced a repeal of the three contentious farm laws.

Highlights

• PM Modi makes stunning annou...

Cuban Foreign Minister accuses Facebook and US for stimulating protests on November 15

Cuba's foreign minister blames the United States for protests over human and civil rights which occurred on November 15. He also alleged the social media giant Facebook for helping them in promoting this.

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Ford employees are protesting against the company, demand government intervention

Highlights

• Employees of Ford India are protesting against the company
• The management’s decision to shut the manufacturing unit is affecting the livelihood of the nearly 2,700 employees

Employees at the manufacturing facility of...

HARYANA GOVERNMENT URGED TO CURB RUMOURS LINKING COVID SPREAD TO 5G

HIGHLIGHTS

• Telecom operators are urging Haryana government to curb rumors linking COVID spread to 5G.
• The DoT clarified that testing of the 5G network was yet to start in India.

Many telecom operators have sent a joint letter to Hary...

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER UNITED MATCH POSTPONED AFTER FANS PROTEST

Highlights:

• The Premier League game between Manchester United and Liverpool had been postponed
• The match was postponed as around 200 fans have broken into the stadium to protest Glazer family’s ownership of the club

The Premier...

CHINA GIVES JAIL TERMS TO HONG KONG’S ANTI-GOVT. PROTESTORS

Highlights –

• China gives jail terms to Hong Kong’s anti-govt. protestors.
• Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong publisher has been sentenced to 14 months in jail this week.
• Some of the sentences handed down on Friday were suspended.

THOUSANDS JOIN ‘KILL THE BILL’ PROTEST RALLIES ACROSS UNITED KINGDOM

Highlights:

• Thousands of protestors joined the rallies across the United Kingdom against the ‘Kill the Bill’ protests
• The bill aims in toughening the measures that officers cam take for dispersing the demonstrations

Thous...

THAI PROTESTERS COLLIDE WITH POLICE FORCES IN FRONT OF ARMY UNIT

HIGHLIGHTS

• Thai police utilized tears and water gun against nonconformists walking on an army base in Bangkok on Sunday (Feb 28) to call for King Maha Vajiralongkorn to provide up direct order of the military unit housed there

Dissenters tossed...

HONG KONG AGAIN SHOWS DEMOCRATS WAY TO PRISON BY CHARGING THEM ON SUBVERSION COUNT

HIGHLIGHTS

• 47 Hong Kong democracy activists have been accused of disruption, in the biggest single crackdown on the majority rule resistance under a China-forced public safety law

Sam Cheung, a youthful democrat and a member in an informal poli...

MYANMAR PROTESTS LED TO FOUR DEATHS OF DEMOCRACY SUPPORTERS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Police in Myanmar have spread poisonous gas, explosives and showered live ammunition into the air trying to get rid of a significant protest, their most forceful cross-country crackdown since the military held onto power

Four individ...

MYANMAR DISSENTERS BLOCKED THE STREETS AS CALLS FOR FREEDOM RISE

HIGHLIGHTS

• Security powers in Myanmar's biggest city on Friday (Feb 26) discharged admonition shots and beat truncheons against their shields while moving to scatter more than 1,000 enemies of overthrow dissenters

The demonstrators had accu...

LOOTING AND VIOLENCE ON FIFTH NIGHT OF PROTESTS OVER RAPPER’S ARREST IN SPAIN

Highlights:

• The protests have been continued for the fifth night in Spain over the arrest of the rapper
• On Saturday, the protestors and police have clashed for the fifth night in the country

On Saturday, the protestors and police in&...

AFTER ARREST OF LEADERS BACKING DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT, PROTESTERS PLEDGE TO PROTEST INTENSELY

HIGHLIGHTS

• Supportive of majority rule government has promised to heighten their fights calling for government change and another constitution, a day after a Bangkok court sent four of their chiefs into pretrial detainment on regal slander charges