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LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2024 (AFP) – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, completely halting traffic for hours as part of a coordinated day of action against Israel’s war in Gaza. Aerial footage Monday morning showed stationary traffic in one direction on the iconic bridge, while lanes in the other direction were empty, with police present. Similar protests were held across the United States and around the world, after the group […]
MOSCOW, Jan 22, 2024 (AFP) – Four people have been charged over rare demonstrations in the isolated Russian region of Bashkortostan, a monitoring group said Monday, after police and protesters clashed over a local activist’s jailing. Thousands took to the streets of the small town of Baymak in freezing temperatures last week week, and were met by riot police in a rare display of public outrage in Russia. They were supporting Fail Alsynov, a local […]
By Pauline CURTET, with Sebastien ASH in Berlin MUNICH, Germany, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands joined rallies against the far-right AfD party in Germany on Sunday, capping a week-long wave of protest that has seen demonstrators turn out in unusually large numbers across the country. Between Friday and Sunday alone, protests were organised in some 100 locations, with organisers Campact and Fridays for Future estimating that over 1.4 million people had gone […]
By Miodrag SOVILJ BELGRADE, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Serbian opposition demonstrators broke windows as they tried to storm Belgrade city hall on Sunday evening during protests over alleged election fraud, with police pushing them back with pepper spray, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. Demonstrators used flagpoles, rocks and eggs to break the windows of the capital’s administrative building and tried to break in, but were quickly pushed back by police. Around […]
LOS ANGELES, Nov 17, 2023 (AFP) – A California university professor was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter for the death of a Jewish man at a pro-Palestinian demonstration where an altercation broke out, local authorities said. Loay Alnaji, 50, was arrested and remanded into custody, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. He is being held in lieu of a $1 million bail. Alnaji was charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious bodily injury, the […]
DHAKA, July 29, 2023 (AFP) – Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading major roads in the capital Dhaka on Saturday in the latest protest demanding the prime minister’s resignation. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies have staged a series of protests since last year demanding Sheikh Hasina step down and allow a caretaker government to oversee elections due next January. Clashes erupted in several locations […]
By Ana Marija IVKOVIC Agence France-Presse ZVECAN, Kosovo, May 30, 2023 (AFP) — Over 30 peacekeepers deployed in a NATO-led mission in Kosovo were injured Monday in clashes with Serb protesters who demanded the removal of recently elected ethnic Albanian mayors, as tensions flare in the Balkan nation. NATO’S Kosovo Force (KFOR) said it had faced “unprovoked attacks” while countering a hostile crowd after demonstrators clashed with police and tried to force their way into […]
by Hillary ORINDE Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenyan riot police were out in force Monday for a day of action called by the opposition to protest the country’s cost of living crisis, despite a ban on the demonstrations. In one part of Nairobi’s biggest slum Kibera, demonstrators set tires alight, while several youths were arrested at one of the venues for the demonstrations in the capital, AFP journalists saw. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — South Africa braced for protests on Monday after a left-wing party called for a “national shut-down”, sparking fears of a repeat of unrest that turned deadly two years ago. Authorities said there would be a heavy police presence to deal with any possible violence, after the third largest party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) urged South Africans to take to the streets and bring the country to a halt. “The […]
by Irakli METREVELI At least 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Georgia for a third day running Thursday despite the ruling party’s promise to drop a controversial “foreign agent” bill reminiscent of Russian legislation used to silence critics. Waving Georgian, Ukrainian and EU flags, protesters gathered outside the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi, piling pressure on the government, accused of flirting with the Kremlin and putting the Black Sea nation on an […]
by Hazel Ward with AFP bureaux around the world Agence France-Presse MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Women hit the streets from Kabul to Mexico City on Wednesday to mark International Women’s Day and stand up for rights that are coming under increasing attack. With Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers imposing what the United Nations has called a “gender apartheid” on women, Iran’s repression of the Mahsa Amini protests, new US restrictions on abortion rights and the Ukraine war, […]
Lisbon, Portugal | AFP | Thousands of teachers from across Portugal marched through the streets of Lisbon on Saturday in the latest round of protests demanding higher pay and better working conditions. More than 150,000 people took part in the rally, according to the National Federation of Teachers (FENPROF), the profession’s main union. “This is probably the biggest demonstration of teachers” in Portugal, said FENPROF secretary general Mario Nogueira. “We are outraged,” Augusto Figueiredo, a […]
