Riots

Fireworks thrown at police, vehicles set on fire. Migrant areas of Paris were hit with a 3rd consecutive night of rioting following an accident in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured after a confrontation with police.One clip shows firefighters trying to tackle a blaze after numerous vehicles were set on…

South Africa saw an escalation of riots and looting in various parts of the country amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, imposed by the nation's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, on 27 March.The country, which saw it's first COVID-19 case on 5 March, now, according to data by Johns Hopkins University, has 3300…

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2020 LGBTQ Pride Marches Canceled, Going Virtual In cities across the world during what passes for an ordinary year, the month of June couriers a bevy of programs celebrating the empowerment of the LGBTQ community and the human beings who comprise it. Central to these celebrations are Pride marches, most…

There are only two more episodes of Westworld season 3 left after this ep, and honestly…I’m ready to pull the plug. I won’t, of course – I’ll still be reviewing the final two episodes. But after this latest adventure into Westworld, “Decoherence”, I can confidently say that Westworld season 3 is a wash.…

A fire has torn through one of Greece's largest refugee camps on Chios island, causing widespread damage and rendering up to hundreds of people homeless. The blaze started following a protest over the death of a 47-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was cleared of having the coronavirus. But many residents at the…

Season 3 of CBS’ S.W.A.T. came up just one episode short as a result of Hollywood’s coronavirus pandemic-related shutdown. But that postponed finale was poised to be a historically resonant one. After the shutdown was announced in mid-March, “We barely got Episode 21 in under the wire. And obviously we…

Streamed live on Apr 15, 2020The coronavirus is sweeping through one of the world's largest and most vulnerable populations - prisoners. Experts are warning if there are not efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, the population at large will be unsafe. Panic among the world’s incarcerated populations…

Apr 15, 2020 at 04:00 UTCUpdated Apr 15, 2020 at 14:34 UTCCoinmint, a crypto data center in upstate New York, is set to host a portion of new miners from Riot’s Oklahoma City facility. (Credit: Shutterstock) Riot Blockchain, one of the few publicly traded bitcoin mining companies in the U.S.,…

Police in Germany, France, and Belgium were under siege during the weekend, as mobs of migrants and gangs attacked them in the streets despite coronavirus lockdowns in effect in each country.In the Anderlecht neighborhood of Brussels, at least 57 people were arrested after violent riots in response to the death…