Riots

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…

The sky was still dark when Gabriel pulled up and we piled our bags—heavy with uneaten camping meals—into the trunk of his dusty sedan. As he nosed the car off the dirt road and onto the paved streets of El Calafate, my partner J. and I scanned for signs of…

Written by Pritam Pal Singh | New Delhi | Updated: April 23, 2020 1:32:30 am The SBI said in its reply that the expenses rejected under the claim were not mentioned in the issuance of the policy or its breach by the Paramount Service Insurance TPA Private and SBI General…

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…