Protesters in Hong Kong have said they plan to hold a spot referendum on whether to stay on the streets or accept a government offer for more talks and clear their protest camps. The three main groups behind the demonstrations said on Thursday that they would register public opinion on[…]
Hong Kong student representatives and government officials have held much-awaited talks to end street protests now in their fourth week, but achieved little progress to defuse the crisis in China’s semi-autonomous city. In opening remarks, student leader Alex Chow said that an August decision by China’s legislature ruling out direct[…]
As the new academic term began in Egypt, riot police were standing guard at Cairo’s universities to quash any repeat of protests that turned campuses nationwide into battlefields. The authorities have tightened security at 12 leading universities across the country — the last bastions of protests backing ousted president Mohamed Morsi[…]
Hong Kong’s leader has said that the “external forces” have been involved in pro-democracy protests which have been going on in the country for more than three weeks. In the past week, Hong Kong police have repeatedly clashed with protesters, who are demanding fully democratic elections for the city. “There[…]
Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drove protesters from an underpass in the dead of night in the worst violence since the street demonstrations for greater democracy began more than two weeks ago. Officers, many with riot shields and wielding pepper spray, dragged away dozens of protesters, tore down barricades[…]
University students in Egypt have staged new protests against government measures restricting political dissent in educational institutions. Protesters in the coastal city of Alexandria set fire at the entrance of their university’s literature school on Monday. In Cairo, security forces stormed al-Azhar University for a second day and arrested several[…]
Hong Kong police trimmed a protest zone that has paralyzed traffic on key roads in the financial district for more than two weeks, removing some barricades used by pro-democracy protesters to allow some traffic through the area on Monday. Police stressed that the dawn operation was not meant to clear[…]
Kurdish protesters clashed Tuesday with police in Turkey and forced their way into the European Parliament in Brussels, part of Europe-wide demonstrations against the Islamic State group’s advance on a town on the Syrian-Turkish border. The activists are demanding more help for the besieged Kurdish forces struggling to hold onto[…]
Hong Kong protest leaders have agreed to hold talks with the pro-Beijing government as their numbers dwindled and they faced growing pressure to end their sit-in. As day breaks over the Chinese autonomous region on Tuesday, only a hundred or so protesters have remained at the central business district, significantly[…]
The struggle for greater democracy in Hong Kong has entered a new phase. Students and the government are talking about a political solution. What China actually promised the territory is at stake. “Take a break, for the sake of future room to grow,” veteran protester Bao Tong urged the young[…]
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