Tag: #Protests
Australia PM vows to outlaw ‘apocalyptic’ climate activism
Sydney, Nov 1 (AFP/APP): Australia’s pro-coal government threatened harsh new penalties against “apocalyptic” activism Friday as a global wave of climate protests ...Over a million protesters demand Chile president’s resignation
Santiago, Oct 26 (AFP/APP): More than one million people took to the streets in Chile Friday for the largest protests in a ...Lebanon protesters reject concessions, block key roads
Beirut, Oct 25 (AFP/APP): Anti-corruption protesters cut off major roads in Lebanon for a ninth day Friday, pledging to keep paralysing the ...Bolivia’s opposition stages strike, Morales decries ‘coup’
La Paz, Oct 24 (AFP/APP): Bolivia’s opposition launched a general strike Wednesday amid protests and disturbances over disputed election results that pointed ...Fresh protests in Spain over Catalan sentence
Barcelona, Oct 15 (AFP/APP): Catalan separatists on Tuesday blocked streets and train tracks in protest against Spain’s jailing of nine of their ...Thousands in bloody protests across Iraq, 31 dead
Baghdad, Oct 4 (AFP/APP):Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Iraq’s capital and across the south on Thursday, the third day ...Hong Kong set to discuss emergency laws
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s government is expected to discuss sweeping emergency laws on Friday that would include banning face masks ...Haiti gripped by violent protests, rage against president
PortauPrince, Sept 28 (AFP/APP):Angry protests rumbled through Haiti and its capital of Port-au-Prince Friday as thousands of people took to the streets ...Egypt’s rival camps wage online battle over Sisi
Cairo, Sept 26 (AFP/APP):Rival hashtags, angry videos and calls to march — the war for Egyptian minds is raging online ahead of ...