Hong Kong police have ordered the last remaining knot of demonstrators to leave the city’s main protest site after a deadline for the crowds to disperse passed. Authorities on Thursday began dismantling barriers and breaking up rallies in the final showdown of a protest that has lasted two-and-a-half months and[…]
Ziad Abu Ein, a Palestinian minister, has died after clashes with Israeli forces, reportedly due to inhaling large amounts of tear gas in the occupied West Bank, sources told Al Jazeera. Abu Ein, who was the head of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, died in Ramallah Hospital on Wednesday after[…]
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in US cities for a second night to protest against a grand jury’s decision not to charge a white New York City police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man in a chokehold. The case of Eric Garner – combined with[…]
Protests have been held in US cities after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. In New York City, angry crowds gathered on Wednesday in[…]
The office of Egypt’s public prosecutor said Tuesday it will appeal a court decision to drop a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising. “The prosecutor general has decided to appeal,” a statement said, after a Cairo court Saturday ordered murder and[…]
Cairo’s Tahrir Square has been closed for the second time after the announcement of a court verdict dropping charges against former President Hosni Mubarak for killing protesters, state media has reported. The court also acquitted Mubarak and others of corruption charges. Following the decision, hundreds took to Tahrir Square to[…]
Hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in Hong Kong, as demonstrators stepped up a street campaign pushing for free elections and democratic reforms in the Chinese-controlled city state. Police officers armed with pepper spray, batons and riot shields charged at the protesters as they tried to disperse them, making[…]
Violence erupted in the Egyptian capital as security forces clashed with people protesting a decision to throw out charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during a 2011 uprising. Egyptian security forces shot one person late on Saturday, either with live ammunition or birdshot, as they[…]
Protest marches sprang up in cities across the United States on Tuesday, amid a tense security operation in Ferguson, the Missouri town at the center of the country’s latest racially-charged stand-off. Clashes erupted in the St Louis suburb for a second night, after Monday’s decision by a grand jury not to[…]
An army general and a colonel have both announced they will lead a transition to democracy after Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore was pushed out by street protests, ending a 27-year reign. Colonel Yacouba Zida said in a recorded address posted early on Saturday on the website of a national[…]
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