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By Stuart WILLIAMS PARIS, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – An Iranian girl aged 16 has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic republic’s notorious morality police. The Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw said the teenager, named as Armita Garawand, had been badly injured in a confrontation on the Tehran metro with female police […]
JERUSALEM, July 24, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli lawmakers on Monday prepared for a final vote on a major component of the hard-right government’s controversial judicial overhaul, even as US President Joe Biden called for postponing the “divisive” bill that triggered months of mass protests. Lawmakers debated through the night amid last-ditch efforts by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to reach a compromise. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a hospital where he had undergone surgery […]
CERGY-PONTOISE, France, July 8, 2023 (AFP) – Dozens of marches against police violence in France have been announced for Saturday after authorities banned a memorial rally, fearful of reigniting the recent unrest that engulfed the country. Seven years after Adama Traore, a young black man, died in police custody, his sister had planned to lead a commemorative march north of Paris in Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise. However, with tensions still high following the police killing of […]
Japan’s plan to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant would have “negligible consequences” for South Korea, Seoul said Friday, as it tried to assuage rising public concern. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week gave the green light for a decades-long project to discharge accumulated water from the plant, which was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan in 2011. But the plan has encountered widespread […]
By Tiphaine LE LIBOUX and Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s mayors have called on members of the public and elected officials to gather at town halls across the country on Monday in a show of mass opposition to violent protests that have dragged on for nearly a week. The government has been battling nightly riots and looting ever since 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer during a […]
NANTERRE, France, June 29, 2023 (AFP) – The policeman who killed a French teenager in a Paris suburb on Tuesday, sparking violent protests across the country, has apologised to the family while in custody, his lawyer said. “The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family,” Laurent-Franck Lienard told BFMTV late Thursday. “He is devastated, he doesn’t get up in the morning […]
PARIS, June 29, 2023 (AFP) – French police braced for more violent protests Thursday over the fatal shooting of a teen by a policeman that has left authorities scrambling to contain an escalating crisis. According to an internal security note, the coming nights are expected “to be the theatre of urban violence” with “actions targeted at the forces of order and the symbols of the state”, a police source said. One Paris suburb, Clamart, has […]
PARIS, June 29, 2023 (AFP) – France on Thursday ordered the mobilisation of tens of thousands of police to prevent a further escalation of violence after two nights of clashes over the killing of a teenager by a policeman. Cars and bins were torched in parts of the country, while some 150 people were arrested nationwide following clashes and unrest that included a tramway’s carriages being alight in a Paris suburb. France has been hit […]
By Laetitia DREVET and Sylvie MALIGORNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, June 29, 2023 (AFP) — Unrest erupted in France for a second night in a row as balaclava-clad protesters burning rubbish and shooting fireworks clashed with security forces in violent demonstrations over the fatal shooting of a teenager by police. Nahel M., 17, was shot in the chest at point-blank range on Tuesday morning in an incident that has reignited debate in France about police tactics […]
BOGOTÁ, June 21, 2023 (AFP) — Thousands of Colombians protested in the capital Bogota and other cities Tuesday against reforms by the country’s first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro, which many say go too far. Since taking over last August, Petro has submitted several reform projects to parliament to reduce private participation in the healthcare system, redistribute unproductive land, and reform labor and pension regulations. But he has since lost his majority backing in the legislature, […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Dozens of people were injured in northern Argentina on Tuesday as protesters clashed with police in Jujuy province over a proposed ban on certain forms of demonstration. For several hours, hundreds engaged the police in running battles in the streets of the provincial capital San Salvador de Jujuy, burning cars and throwing rocks, according to TV images. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. One channel showed a demonstrator […]
PARIS, May 1, 2023 (AFP) Hundreds of thousands of people on Monday massed in France on labour day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, with unions vowing not to stop fighting even after the changes were signed into law. Unions had been hoping for a vast turnout across France for the May 1 protests to further rattle Macron, who has been greeted by pot-bashing and jeers as he toured the country […]
