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by Clare BYRNE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called for “order” on Sunday after a sixth weekend of “yellow vest” anti-government protests that saw dwindling participation and a violent attack on police in Paris. Speaking during a visit to the Saharan state of Chad where he was visiting French troops serving in a counter-terrorism force, Macron said: “There must be order now, calm and harmony. Our country needs it.” […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Investigators from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday began a probe into months of violence in Nicaragua which has killed at least 220 people. “Our commitment is to the victims…regardless of who the perpetrators are,” said Italian human rights expert Amerigo Incalcaterra. A statement from the commission said it had a mandate of six months and has been tasked with “supporting the investigations of the violent acts that have […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – More than 500 women including a member of Congress were arrested Thursday in the US Capitol complex protesting President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy that has triggered thousands of family separations at the border with Mexico. US Capitol Police said 575 people conducting a sit-down protest in the atrium of a Senate office building were charged with unlawfully demonstrating, then processed at the scene and released. Many of those detained […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaraguan human rights groups expressed renewed concern Tuesday over a rising death toll from months of protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega. The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) has reported at least 212 people dead, but told AFP on Tuesday it was investigating possible new deaths in recent days. Another group, the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) published a report Tuesday putting the death toll at 285, […]
by Kamal Taha © Agence France-Presse AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II called for a review of a controversial draft tax law Tuesday as anti-austerity protesters staged another night of demonstrations in Amman and trade unions vowed to hold a general strike. For nearly a week, the capital and other cities have been hit by angry rallies against reforms backed by the International Monetary Fund that have brought repeated price hikes. Prime Minister […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Teachers in the Midwestern US state of Oklahoma called off their historic demonstration at the state Capitol Thursday, with their demands for additional public school funding only partially met. Tens of thousands of teachers, students and other supporters had rallied in Oklahoma City and swarmed the state Capitol building since April 2. The protesters shut down schools across the state and demanded that the Republican-controlled legislature pass funding measures to restore […]
by Veronique Dupont / with Nova Safo in Chicago © Agence France-Presse OKLAHOMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Students joined teachers in Oklahoma City Wednesday for a third day of protests demanding that state lawmakers increase funding for public schools after years of budget cuts. “We the students of Oklahoma are with you for as long as this strike takes,” student Cameron Olbert told a rally outside the state capitol, epicenter of a demonstration that […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A teachers’ protest entered its second day in the US state of Oklahoma on Tuesday as lawmakers faced a spreading schoolhouse revolt against a decade of deep cuts to public education. The teachers’ union organizing the demonstration estimated at least 20,000 people rallied outside the capitol building in Oklahoma City and filled every floor of the rotunda inside — chanting “We’re not leaving” […]
by Laurence BOUTREUX Agence France-Presse MADRID, Spain – More than a thousand protesters took to the streets in central Madrid on Friday as tensions remained high a day after violent clashes over the controversial death of a Senegalese street vendor. The protesters gathered in a square in the Lavapies district of the Spanish capital in the early evening, many of them young, dressed in black and wearing bandanas. Some shouted “kill police”, an AFP journalist […]
by Alex VASQUEZ Agence France Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — A teenage boy and a woman died after being shot Wednesday during massive protests in Venezuela against President Nicolas Maduro, bringing to seven the number killed this month in a mounting political crisis. Riot police fired tear gas to force back stone-throwing demonstrators as tens of thousands of people joined protest marches in Caracas and several other cities. The opposition has accused Maduro of letting […]
Tension was high in Haiti on Tuesday (January 19) as protesters took to the streets of Haiti’s capital to demand the suspension of a Jan. 24 presidential election over alleged irregularities. Haiti is due to hold a run-off vote backed by international donors on Sunday, but tensions have risen since opposition candidate Jude Celestin said last week he would withdraw, on grounds that electoral authorities favoured the ruling party. Swiss-trained engineer Celestin, 53, came second […]
A group of Filipinos is planning a protest march against the aggressive territorial claims made by China in the South China Sea.
