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Police fire tear gas, water cannon against 'yellow vest' protesters in central Paris
Police fired tear gas and water cannon Saturday in central Paris against "yellow vest" protesters demanding French President Emmanuel Macron roll back tax hikes on motor fuel. Some 3,000 police were deployed in the capital as demonstrators who have blocked French roads over the past ...
Stephen Curry and LeBron James spoke their minds last year. They have not changed their minds this year. No matter whose team wins the NBA championship, neither superstar will be at the White House anytime soon. On the day when the Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to ...
Spanish women hold nationwide strike against inequality and macho culture
Women across Spain went on strike and held street protests over gender inequality on Thursday, including midnight pot-banging rallies, bike demos and demonstrations under the rain in city squares. Authorities did not say how many participated in Spain's first-ever women nationwide strike held on International ...
When the Dallas Cowboys — known as America's team — took a knee before the national anthem and then beat the Arizona Cardinals, they provided the strongest evidence yet that President Donald Trump can't keep fans away from football. ESPN said overnight ratings rose 63 ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel stood up to rowdy protesters who tried to drown out her campaign speech with deafening jeers and whistles in the eastern town of Quedlinburg on Saturday, telling them that their angry shouts would not solve Germany's problems. Amid chants of "Merkel just ...
Protesters march in Tokyo against Apa Hotel chief's Nanking Massacre denial books
About 200 protesters marched through the streets of Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Sunday carrying banners to protest a hotel chain under fire for books its president wrote denying that the Nanking Massacre in wartime China ever happened. Tokyo-based hotel and real estate developer Apa Group ...
Dallas was in shock and beset by uncertainty early Friday after gunmen shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven during a peaceful protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states, police said, in bloodshed evoking the trauma of the ...
Chinese villagers protest after police detain elected leader
Residents of a village in southern China where police have been deployed took to the streets Sunday to protest the detention of the village's democratically elected leader and seizures of land. The protests in Wukan come nearly five years after an uprising there made the ...
Ai Weiwei withdraws works from Danish museums in protest of new policy
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is withdrawing his works from two museums in Denmark to protest a new law that allows Danish authorities to seize valuables from migrants. Ai announced on social media Wednesday that he no longer wanted to have his works on ...
Tunisia imposed a nationwide overnight curfew Friday in response to growing unrest over unemployment as protests across the country descended into vandalism in several cities. The curfew from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. would begin Friday because the attacks on public and private property "represent ...
FBI hopes to peacefully end protesters' armed occupation of Oregon wildlife facility
Federal law enforcement officials on Monday sought a peaceful end to the occupation of the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon launched over the weekend by a group of self-styled militiamen angry over the imminent imprisonment of two ranchers. The occupation, which began ...
U.N. official's claim that 13% of Japanese girls engage in 'compensated dating' angers government
The Foreign Ministry has protested remarks by a U.N. official who said 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are engaged in enjo kosai, or compensated dating, and called for the comment to be retracted. The ministry lodged the protest with the Office of the High ...
