Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside the funeral of Cardinal George Pell in Sydney on Thursday due to public safety concerns. Pell, who was once considered the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican
Hundreds of climate activists on Saturday blocked one of the main roads into the international criminal court, The Hague, in a show of protests over fossil fuel linked tax breaks before being hauled away. Activists reportedly blocked the road for an hour
Australians have turned out to protest against the country’s national holiday, branding the day as “Invasion Day” as they demand recognition of harm against the Indigenous population. “Let us all recognize the unique privilege that we have to share this continent with
Thousands of protesters descended on the Peruvian capital Lima on Thursday including many from the mostly indigenous south, angry at the mounting death toll from over a month of protests and calling for political change. According to a police estimate there were
Protests in Peru get violent At least one person died Wednesday in the Peruvian city of Puno after new scuffles between anti-government protesters and police. Protests continued into Thursday. (Courtesy Info Andes/Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office handout via Reuters) Protests in the streets of
German police continued a crackdown on anti-coal protesters who are camped out in an abandoned town slated to be demolished for the expansion of coal production. A large force of German police surrounded the western German town of Luetzerath on Wednesday and
Residents across Brazil were invited to a “party” on social media – the festa invites were a series of thinly disguised metaphors to gather at a complex of government buildings known as Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Square) outside Congress to
Iran, which has already executed four people who took part in protests in recent months, sentenced three more people to death on Monday on charges of “waging war on God.” The three men – Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeid Yaghoubi –
A chaotic scene unfolded at Brazil’s National Congress Sunday as hundreds of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed past security and called for a military intervention to overthrow President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Portuguese news agency LUSA reports the protesters
Clips showing a furious Chinese mob flipping a police car on to its hood have gone viral, in the latest remarkable example of civil disobedience to penetrate the country’s wall of digital censorship. The footage shows large crowds in Luyi County, Henan,