A year after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school on 14 February 2018 sparked a national youth protest movement, gun violence remains an American crisis. Nearly 1,200 American children and teenagers have been killed with guns in...
The Cameroonian opposition leader who claims he won last year’s election has been arrested. Police arrested Maurice Kamto on Monday along with several other opposition figures, including one who was pulled out of his hospital bed where he was recove...
Opposition seeks changes from government, including independent judiciary Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government in Hungary has faced a rare and sustained bout of protest in the capital, Budapest, culminating in a group of opposition MPs spend...
The French government has suspended plans to introduce an eco-fuel tax after three weeks of increasingly violent protests across the country. Bowing to pressure from the street, the prime minister, Édouard Philippe, also announced an immediate freez...
Despite a backdrop of riots against high fuel levies in France, European commission data shows that taxes on all petrol products have actually fallen in the last two years across the eurozone. The level has fallen from almost 70% of the cost for con...
‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con!’ was a phrase that went viral after being uttered by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, to a man who refused to shake his hand. An exact translation is difficult, but the sense is something along the lines o...
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More than 90 people have been injured in the French capital after police used teargas and stun grenades on thousands of protesters who converged on the Champs Élysées, in the latest eruption of anti-government sentiment. The gilets jaunes (yellow ve...
Police used teargas and water cannon against protesters in central Paris as similar ‘yellow vests’ demonstrations took place around the country Main image: A protester holds a French flag as teargas swirls in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Par...
Police fired teargas and used water cannon to disperse protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of 'yellow vest' protests that have caused disruption across France...
A coven of witches will gather in an occult bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday to place a hex on supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh. Tickets to the event, which cost $10, with half the proceeds going to women’s and LGBT charities, have...
People from across Germany have marched through Berlin to protest against racism, xenophobia and the far right in one of the country’s biggest rallies of recent years. Organisers put the turnout at 242,000 people. The demonstration on Saturday follo...
Police arrested a woman who climbed the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in a Fourth of July protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and she is due to appear in court in New York on Thursday morning. The climber huddled at...
After successfully forcing Portland’s Ice office to shut down Wednesday, occupying protesters are vowing to stay until so-called “zero tolerance” immigration policies end. The pledge by members of #OccupyICEPDX came as Donald Trump signed an executi...
Until the leaders of the seven most economically advanced nations in the world descended on it, the Charlevoix region of Quebec was perhaps best known for the beauty of its landscapes and the opulence of its state-run casino in La Malbaie. It is als...