Bracing for more unrest over George Floyd’s death, Minnesota calls on National Guard
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called in the National Guard as a wounded Minneapolis braces for more violence over the death of a handcuffed black man in police custody.
Michigan House doesn’t extend virus emergency order amid protests
Hoisting American flags and handmade signs, protesters returned to the Michigan Capitol to denounce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-home order and business restrictions.
Puerto Ricans protest in anger over unused emergency aid amid earthquakes
Anger is growing over emergency aid that until recently sat unused in a warehouse amid ongoing earthquakes.
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Iraqis supporting Iran-backed militia attack U.S. Embassy, demand U.S. withdrawal
In Baghdad, supporters of an Iran-backed militia remained outside the gates of the U.S. Embassy after attempting to storm the compound earlier in the day. The U.S. military planned to move more Marines in, but the Iraqi protesters insisted they…
A tense new year has dawned in Baghdad after U.S. airstrikes against an Iranian-backed militia prompted one of the worst attacks on a U.S. Embassy in years. Bilal Wahab of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Kirsten Fontenrose…
Russian police cracked down fiercely Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 who were protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council. Police also stormed into a TV…
Police detained hundreds of people in Kazakhstan amid unauthorized protests of a presidential election Sunday that opponents alleged was a fake exercise in democracy.
Hong Kong police said around 22,800 protesters marched through downtown on Sunday in opposition to changes to an extradition law widely seen as eroding the territory’s independent legal system.
Manal al-Sharif inspired Saudi Arabian women to defy their country's ban on female drivers by posting a video of herself behind the wheel. The act saw her jailed but was ultimately influential in the 2018 lifting of the ban. Now…
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