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From Tokyo to New York, thousands protest against invasion of Ukraine
'Ukraine is too small and the pressure is too big.'
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3 years ago
Canada's capital secured and cleaned up after weeks-long protests
Finally, on Sunday, the police ended the three-week occupation of Ottawa.
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3 years ago
Canada's Trudeau to invoke emergency powers to end protests
Protests started by Canadian truckers opposing a Covid-19 quarantine mandate.
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3 years ago
New Zealand's Ardern labels anti-vaccine mandate protests 'imported'
We've never seen this before, she says as crowds defy calls to leave.
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3 years ago
In rare move, Thai protesters openly criticise monarchy
After the king took the throne in 2016, the palace required revisions to a new constitution that gave him greater emergency powers.
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5 years ago
Govts can restrict protests on public health grounds, UN says
CORONAVIRUS | 'It's understandable and acceptable that for health reasons there may be limits on your rights.'
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5 years ago
Florida sets one-day record with over 15,000 new Covid-19 cases, more than most countries
If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most number of new cases in a day behind the US, Brazil, and India.
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5 years ago
Two Seattle protesters hit by car on highway, one critically injured
The speeding car drove past other stopped vehicles into a crowd demonstrating on an interstate highway, say police.
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5 years ago
'It was the right thing to do', says man in London anti-racism picture
Far-right counter-protesters converged on central London and skirmishes took place.
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5 years ago
Washington DC approves police reforms after days of protests against racism
It bars the use of neck restraints and requires the release of names and images from officers' body cameras.
Reuters
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5 years ago
LETTER | Calls for end to systemic racism and racial discrimination
Suaram expresses solidarity with the international solidarity movement that has grown out of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody recently.
Kua Kia Soong
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5 years ago
Thai exile's kidnapping sparks protests over 'missing' critics
The kidnapping of an activist has reignited protests against Thailand’s military-royalist elite.
Reuters
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5 years ago
Felling of slave trader statue prompts fresh look at British history
The statue of Edward Colston, who made a fortune in the 17th century from trading in West African slaves, was torn down.
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5 years ago
Mexican governor apologises for police abuses at protest
Jalisco governor Enrique Alfaro says he is appalled that police in Guadalajara had beaten some participants in a demonstration over the death of Giovanni Lopez.
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5 years ago
Black Lives Matter protests sweep across white small-town America
Nearly a century ago the southern Illinois town of Anna expelled most of its African-American residents.
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5 years ago
Video shows police in Buffalo, New York, shoving 75-year-old to ground
The incident drew widespread condemnation on social media as protesters returned to the streets of several U.S. cities to demonstrate against police brutality.
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5 years ago
Perils for Pentagon as Trump threatens to militarise response to civil unrest
"America is not a battleground. Our fellow citizens are not the enemy," Martin Dempsey, the retired four-star general who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote on Twitter.
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5 years ago
On the streets of Washington, pleas for change met with batons and rubber bullets
Pressed against metal barriers a block from the White House, a crowd of protesters faced a line of police wearing body armor and carrying shields.
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5 years ago
Four police shot in violent protests after Trump vows to bring in U.S. military
"Officers are still taking gunfire downtown & we will share more info as it available," St Louis Police said on Twitter.
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5 years ago
Hong Kong people aim to mark Tiananmen despite ban
"I can't be silent. If people tell me to keep silent, I won't."
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5 years ago
Former U.S. President Obama condemns violence at protests
He said electing new leaders on the national and local levels would bring about change.
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5 years ago
LETTER | A rallying cry for love and solidarity
George Floyd's cry, 'I can't breathe', should be the rallying cry for a new world order built on love, solidarity, and in harmony with the environment.
Ronald Benjamin
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5 years ago
Hundreds of protesters rally in London, Berlin over US death
They protest in solidarity with the demonstrators in the United States raging against the killing of a black man by a policeman.
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5 years ago
Minnesota National Guard activated as protests rage on amid political finger-pointing
The full Minnesota National Guard was activated for the first time since World War Two after four nights of civil unrest.
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5 years ago
Protests flare in the US over George Floyd killing
The demonstrations have broken out for the fourth night.
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5 years ago
White House on lockdown as protests over Floyd’s death reach US capital
An online video shows hundreds of protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, just outside the White House, chanting 'No justice, no peace'.
Bernama
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5 years ago
Hong Kong warns removing US special status is 'double-edged sword'
US trade surplus with Hong Kong was the biggest among all its trading partners, totalling US$297bil.
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5 years ago
YOURSAY | Has Kua forgotten what it’s like to be targetted by draconian laws?
‘No nation is above scrutiny or reprimand if their actions so demand it.’
Yoursay
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5 years ago
Lawyers should understand the law better - IGP on PAA probes
Permission will be granted to any parties as long as requirements under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 have been fulfilled.
Haspaizi Zain
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5 years ago
Iran says it has made arrests over plane disaster as protests rage on
The shooting down of the flight, killing 176 people, has led to one of the greatest public challenges to Iran’s clerical rulers.
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5 years ago
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