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Artists and other workers in the music industry, organized by the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, today participated in coordinated demonstrations at Spotify offices around the world. The group is calling for increased transparency in the company’s business practices, an end to lawsuits filed against artists, and a user-centric…

By José Arturo Cárdenas (AFP)     10 hours ago in Politics Tens of thousands of Bolivians answered an opposition call Monday for protests against the arrest and detention of former president Jeanine Anez on charges of leading a coup d'etat against her socialist predecessor Evo Morales. Conservative Anez, 53,…

Sarah Everard, to hear her story told for her now, was killed “after doing everything she was supposed to do. She took a longer route that was well-lit and populated. She wore bright clothes and shoes she could run in. She checked in with her boyfriend to let him know…

A Hong Kong cinema has scrapped its screenings of a documentary about the Polytechnic University protest siege just three hours before a scheduled evening show. Golden Scene Cinema, which opened in Kennedy Town last month, announced the cancelation of the “Inside the Red Brick Walls” screenings in a Facebook post…

YANGON, Burma—At least four people were shot dead during protests in Burma on Sunday, as security forces continued their violent crackdown against dissent following last month’s military coup. Two of the victims were killed in Yangon, the country’s largest city. One of them was shot in the head and another…

YANGON: Myanmar is in its “darkest moment” according to a group of Members of Parliament in hiding as they urged protesters to move with “invincibility” and the coup-hit nation neared its seventh week under military rule. The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San…

Currency slips further against the dollar as protests over country's economic crisis continue A protester dressed in an alien costume takes part in a demonstration against Lebanon's government in downtown Beirut. AFP The Lebanese pound tumbled on Saturday trading at more than 12,000 lira to the dollar, a depreciation of more…

Skip to main content HomeCoronavirusFactcheckPoliticsRace in AmericaVisual ExplainersNationWorldInvestigationsHealthEducationWeatherJust the FAQsElections Security forces in Myanmar on Saturday again met protests against last month's military takeover with lethal force, killing at least four people by shooting live ammunition at demonstrators. (March 13) AP Read More

10 years after the protests in Syria and their subsequent violent repression, gross human rights violations persist to this day. Syrians have been tortured, murdered, forcibly disappeared, and subjected to chemical weapon attacks. March 12, 2021 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign…

South Africa's public order policing is as ill as it ever was. This has been illustrated in recent student protests spreading across the country's campuses. In Johannesburg police shot dead a pedestrian at a protest outside the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In March 2020 the government imposed a…