A 16-year-old died Thursday after being shot in the head at a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, part of a nationwide general strike, prosecutors said.
The victim was shot Wednesday, on the first day of the two-day strike, and died on Thursday, said the prosecutor general's office, bringing the death toll from four months of violent anti-Maduro protests toRead more
Over 195 people were injured in a protest here against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's bid to elect a Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution, the opposition alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) announced.
According to the mayor of El Hatillo municipality, David Smolansky, "several atrocities were committed" on Wednesday by police officers who were deployed throughout the capital city to "repress"Read more
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Wednesday afternoon suppressed a protest demanding release of detained martyr bodies in Israeli refrigerators, in synchronization with the court session of the case of five detained bodies.
Clashes broke out in front of Jacir Palace Hotel at the northern entrance of Bethlehem near the 300 checkpoint and the wall, between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters,Read more
Shops and offices opened as usual across Zimbabwe on Wednesday despite a planned “shutdown” protest against President Robert Mugabe, who has vowed to end a series of anti-government demonstrations.
Riot police patrolled in the capital Harare and other cities, with minor clashes breaking out in the second city of Bulawayo, AFP reporters witnessed.
Organizers of the planned shutdown blamed theRead more
Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and water cannon at opposition supporters who had gathered for a protest march in the capital, Harare, the BBC reported on Friday.
They have also beaten up people wearing red T-shirts, the colour of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC).
Protesters are calling for electoral reform ahead of polls in 2018.Read more
Japan lodged a fresh diplomatic protest with China on Wednesday, accusing the country of again sending its coast guard ships into waters surrounding contested islands in the East China Sea.
The two countries are locked in a long-running dispute over the uninhabited islets and tensions over them have been a frequent irritant between the countries.
Tokyo has lodged at leastRead more
A group belongs to the (Party) organised a protest against the visit of the US Army Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, the biggest US official to visit Turkey after the failed coup attempt.
Protesters gathered at the Ankara Municipality building then headed to the US Embassy, where they were Turkish police prevented them from enteringRead more
Iran’s representative to the IAEA will submit a note of protest to the nuclear Agency over the leaked confidential information about Iran’s long-term nuclear plans, Mehr News Agency reported on Sunday.
Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, made the remarks in reaction to the leaked confidential document about some aspects of Iran’s long-term nuclear plans, addingRead more