Riots

Healthcare workers and members of the Bolivarian national police wait for the arrival of prisoners outside a hospital after a riot erupted inside a prison in Guanare, Venezuela May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Alvarado CARACAS (Reuters) - At least 17 prisoners in a Venezuelan jail were killed on Friday as they…

A strange, unnerving thing started to happen sometime last week: Some of us got a little lazy about the whole social distancing thing to slow the spread of coronavirus. Hop onto your Instagram and you might even see people boldly posting about their ventures outside their home: a pool party…

The eurozone economy contracted by 3.8% in the first quarter of 2020, according to preliminary estimates from Eurostat. The European Union lost 3.5% of gross domestic product, the data showed.The French and Spanish economies shrank by 5.8% and 5.2% in the first quarter of 2020, a sign of the extensive…

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets on Wednesday after a riot broke out, a Reuters reporter said. The morning violence at Pademba Road Prison followed confirmation on Monday of a coronavirus case there, but the…

Beirut, Lebanon - One man died on Tuesday after violent clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli that left dozens injured after the Lebanese army used live fire, rubber-coated rounds, and tear gas to clear angry protesters. Thousands of protesters across Lebanon blocked roads, attacked banks, and marched through streets throughout…

Riot’s new shooter Valorant pissed a lot of people off recently with what was perceived as a heavy-handed approach to cheat protection. A new update to the game will make some of that easier for players to manage.In a Reddit post that leads with “While we normally don’t plan on…

Image: Riot GamesIt is a regrettable sign of our times that women sharing videos of vocal, sustained harassment they’ve received in specific competitive multiplayer games has become a genre unto itself. The latest game: Riot’s still-in-testing tactical shooter Valorant. The latest person to share a video: A Riot employee.Late last…

(Bloomberg) -- Dozens of Venezuelans clashed with police forces in the countryside of southern Bolivar state on Thursday. The incident was the latest of at least 500 protests registered in April as food and fuel become scarce in Venezuela.Despite the six-week lockdown ordered by the government of Nicolas Maduro in…

Protests over COVID-19 lockdowns have erupted around the world. In Italy, workers have taken to the streets to pressure politicians to open factories. In Germany, Thomas Prudlo took part in a "freedom rally" after being arrested for breaking quarantine by sitting alone on a park bench. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro joined…

“Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You have found an intermediate space,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of life’s most haunting hour. But what we find in that intermediate space between past and future, between the costumed simulacrum of reality…