Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the national anthem in 1996, an act for which he was fined and suspended. Colin Kaepernick revived the protest and became the face of it when he knelt during the national anthem 20 years later. The
Protests are raging after Germany and the United States announced that they will send advanced battle tanks to Ukraine, offering what one expert called an “armoured punching force” to help Kyiv break combat stalemates as the Russian invasion enters its 12th month. While
Hundreds of tourists were stranded at the ancient archeological site of Machu Picchu after Peru’s railway service said protesters sabotaged a portion of the tracking leading back to the capital. The city of Cusco, the former capital of the Incan empire and
Black Boy Lane in Tottenham, London will be officially renamed on Monday as La Rose Lane after John La Rose, a historic local who was a famous publisher and activist. He founded New Beacon Books, the first Caribbean publishing house in England.
A police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno, as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47, authorities said Tuesday.
Executions and a total shutdown of internet services, which effectively disrupted the Iranian protesters’ ability to coordinate uprisings, have “won the battle” for the nation’s clerical regime, an expert has claimed, but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remains “far from winning the
Brazil’s 11-day old administration braced on Wednesday under the renewed threat of mass protests by supporters of the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro after they raided the nation’s capital just three days ago. The Sunday attacks were not only an eerie copy
A police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47, authorities said Tuesday.
At least 13 people died Monday in southeast Peru as protests seeking immediate elections resumed in neglected rural areas of the country still loyal to ousted President Pedro Castillo. Peru’s top human rights agency called for an investigation into the deaths, 12
Protests outside a Russian military base in the town of Gyumri have led to scores of arrests amid calls for Armenia to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-led defense bloc made of former Soviet states. Authorities reportedly detained dozens of