Tag: Protests and Riots
‘I Am Disgusted’: Le Pen Voters Voice Outrage Over Her Conviction
When the verdict from a Paris criminal court flashed across screens in Hénin-Beaumont, many customers in the Café de la Paix received it...
London Police Arrest Gaza Protest Planners at Quaker House
Quakers in Britain are reeling from what they say is an unheard-of violation of one of their places of worship by police officers...
Zakia Jafri, Who Sought Justice for Victims of Indian Riots, Dies...
Zakia Jafri, who turned her personal loss into an uphill campaign for justice after her husband, Ehsan Jafri, was brutally murdered during sectarian...
Salwan Momika, Who Burned a Quran in Sweden, Is Killed
Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off enormous protests when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the...
Serbian Prime Minister Resigns Amid Nationwide Protests
Battered by weeks of student-led street demonstrations, Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday sacrificed his prime minister in an effort to calm...
Protesters Attack Embassies in Congo Amid Fury Over Rebel Violence
Hundreds of protesters attacked several foreign embassies and a United Nations building in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday as...
Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.
When the rioters came for Spellow Library, they used the nonfiction section as kindling.Deborah Moore, then the library’s manager, arrived the next morning...
South Korea’s President Yoon Is Indicted
South Korea’s impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection last month when...
Australia Day Protesters Vandalize Melbourne and Sydney Statues
Some Australians were in no mood to celebrate the country’s national day on Sunday because they had long seen it as a reminder...
His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in...
When Aleksandr G. Lukashenko last ran for president of Belarus, the former Soviet republic he has led since 1994, he faced an unusual...
