The military in Myanmar has killed over 200 civilians since seizing power from the elected government. Military officials have imposed martial law in several cities, occupying schools and cutting off all internet access.
Hong Kong streets descended into chaotic scenes following an unauthorized pro-democracy rally Sunday as protesters set up roadblocks and torched businesses and police responded with tear gas and a water cannon.
Hopes for a negotiated end to the worst unrest in Ecuador in at least a decade dimmed on Friday as clashes between police and anti-austerity protesters continued for a ninth day in the highland capital Quito.
The gunman who shot six officers with an AK-47 and held two other cops hostage along with three civilians inside a Philadelphia home, has finally surrendered after a dramatic standoff that lasted nearly eight hours.
For the past two weeks, a Christian hymn has been cropping up in an unlikely place – the protests that have drawn millions of people on to the streets of Hong Kong.
Seventeen people were killed at a crowded nightclub in Venezuela’s capital Saturday after a tear gas device exploded during a brawl and triggered a desperate stampede among hundreds gathered for a graduation celebration, government officials said. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the incident at the […]
Israeli troops fired live rounds and tear gas as thousands of Palestinians protested near the Gaza border fence Friday, and at least four demonstrators were killed, including a teenage boy, with over 600 wounded, Gaza health officials said.
At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured on Friday by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said.
Turkish police on Sunday fired tear gas to break up a women’s rights march in Ankara with some 15 protesters reportedly detained.
Six people were killed and more than 100 injured on Sunday when police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Srinagar in India’s disputed Kashmir region, officials said.
Two women were robbed of valuables worth at least $5.3 million by masked men who held them and their driver up on a freeway in Paris, according to media reports.
Portland police are looking for a man who they say shot another man during an anti-Donald Trump protest on the Morrison Bridge early Saturday morning.
