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New York Times, Published on 08/08/2024
» LONDON - After days of violent rioting set off by disinformation around a deadly stabbing rampage, authorities in Britain had been bracing for more unrest Wednesday. But by nightfall, large-scale anti-immigration demonstrations had not materialised, and only a few arrests had been made nationwide.
Published on 07/08/2024
» LONDON - British police braced for further anti-Muslim riots on Wednesday as far-right groups pledged to target asylum centres and immigration law firms across the country, prompting anti-fascist protesters to plan counter demonstrations.
Published on 02/05/2024
» LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment.
AFP, Published on 17/10/2023
» TIBERIAS (ISRAEL) - Israel has been bombing Gaza since Palestinian militants launched their bloody attack but tensions have also flared on the northern border with Lebanon, the base of another sworn enemy, Hezbollah.
AFP, Published on 12/10/2023
» JERUSALEM - Israel vowed to completely destroy Islamist group Hamas on the eve of United Statesa Secretary of State Antony Blinken's expected visit Thursday as Washington underscores support for the Jewish state in a war that has seen the death toll spiral into the thousands.
AFP, Published on 10/09/2023
» MALé (MALDIVES) - Maldives leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was trailing in Saturday's presidential vote, preliminary results showed, triggering a runoff election due later this month.
AFP, Published on 01/08/2023
» DAKAR - Leading Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko on Monday was charged with fomenting insurrection and his party dissolved, stoking concerns about further unrest two months after fatal clashes.
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» QUITO - Seventeen Ecuador corrections officials held hostage by prison inmates were freed Wednesday, authorities said, as they struggled to compile a death toll from the dismembered body parts left over from days of fighting between rival gangs.
AFP, Published on 01/07/2023
» PARIS - France on Friday deployed 45,000 officers backed by light armoured vehicles to tackle a fourth straight night of violent protests after the fatal police shooting of a teenager.
Published on 29/06/2023
» NANTERRE, France: Thousands of people on Thursday took to the streets of a Paris suburb to remember a French teenager killed by police during a traffic stop, with protesters led by his mother as anger showed no sign of abating.