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by Adam Plowright and Valerie Leroux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a trip to Europe on Sunday facing widespread criticism of the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state and pressure to engage in the peace process. In his first meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, he was urged to re-engage with the Palestinians to build goodwill following widespread protests over the […]
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — Thousands of Hondurans took to the streets in protest against “electoral fraud” Sunday, as vote counting resumed a week after President Juan Orlando Hernandez and opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla went head to head in the polls. Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) president David Mataramos announced a review of 1,006 votes presenting inconsistencies — despite the opposing Alliance Against the Dictatorship calling for 5,173 votes to be scrutinized. “We feel that the Honduran […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Clashes erupt in Manila during an anti-Trump protest as the ASEAN summit starts.
by Anna Maria Jakubek Agence France Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Carrying Polish flags and throwing red smoke bombs, tens of thousands of people on Saturday joined a march in Warsaw organized by far-right nationalists to mark independence day, while counter-protesters rallied against fascism. The annual march also attracted a considerable number of supporters of the governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party to honour the reestablishment of Poland’s independence in 1918. This year’s slogan […]
New York, United States (AFP) — Ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the US anthem kneel protest move that has become a major controversy, has signed a book deal with Random House worth more than $1 million, according to multiple reports. The New York Post’s Page Six and NBC Sports Pro Football Talk reported the book deal Tuesday, the Post saying the contract with Random House imprint One World was worth just over $1 million. Kaepernick was […]
PARIS, France (CCTV) — Nearly 400,000 employees from the public sector took to the streets on Tuesday in 90 provinces across France to protest against pro-market President Emmanuel Macron’s reform measures in the public sectors. The country’s nine public sector unions, representing 5.4 million workers at public services, backed the protest call, the first such move in a decade. The reform measures, scheduled to be included in the 2018 Budget Bill, include cutting 120,000 jobs […]
by Marina KORENEVA with Theo MERZ in Moscow Agence France Presse SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russian police violently broke up a rally in Saint Petersburg as thousands took to the streets across Russia Saturday on President Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday, urging him to quit power. Heeding the call of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny to demand competitive elections, around 3,000 people rallied in Russia’s second city and Putin’s hometown while more than a thousand […]
by Roland Lloyd Parry © Agence France-Presse MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain braced for mass street protests Saturday as anger swelled against Catalan leaders’ vows to declare their region independent and the national government’s handling of the volatile political crisis. Tentative signs have emerged that the sides may be seeking to defuse the crisis after Madrid offered a first apology Friday to Catalans injured by police in a crackdown on their outlawed independence vote on October 1. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said that the administration is ready to hear the grievances of protesters, whether they are anti- or pro-Duterte. Pro-Duterte supporters are massing up in Plaza Miranda and will be joined by PDP-Laban in their activities, while demonstrators against President Duterte are rallying in front of Rizal Park. Andanar also said that the government will give security and aid to all protesters today, whether anti- […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Thousands of women of all ages marched Sunday through Mexico City, demanding justice in the case of a young woman who was kidnapped and murdered. “It wasn’t your fault, Mara,” read a sign carried by one marcher, rejecting attempts to shift the blame on the victim, 19-year-old Mara Castilla, for having gone out alone at night. Castilla’s body was found Friday in the neighboring state of Puebla, a week after she left a nightclub and […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Protesters hurled debris at police in St. Louis, Missouri Sunday and smashed store windows as demonstrations over the acquittal of a former police officer in the shooting death of a black man turned violent for a third straight day. “Agitators are breaking multiple windows at Olive & 10th. Officers are heading to scene,” said on its Twitter account. Hundreds of protesters earlier staged a “die in” outside a police headquarters […]
by Jerome Cartillier with Brian Knowlton in Washington Agence France-Presse BEDMINSTER, United States (AFP) – The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump’s initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups. A woman died and 19 people were injured in the city of Charlottesville when a car plowed into a crowd […]
