Riots

Share (previously) is an annual festival held in Turin and Belgrade and curated by Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic; the 2020 Share Festival call for entries just went live, along with this year's theme, "Riots: Here we are." Here at Share Festival of Pi…

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs statement surrounding the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was an attempt to shift the blame from Rajiv Gandhi. Mr. Badal said Mr. Singhs claim was neither true …

More than 200 people have died during ongoing anti-government protests in Iran — the country's worst civil unrest since the Islamic revolution 40 years ago.  What started as a protest in response to a 300% increase in fuel prices in mid-November has spread c…

Written by Dipti Nagpaul | Published: December 5, 2019 1:20:12 am Sameena Dalwai and Geetanjali Kulkarni in rehearsal Amit ChakravartyThey sit in the bright, sunlit room on the cold, stone-tiled floor, across from each other, one dressed in black and th…

Pussy Riot have announced a North American tour for next year. The shows are slated to begin in March and wrap up in mid-April in Phoenix, Arizona. Check out the bands tour poster, as well as a trailer featuring unreleased music, below. For the tour, Pussy Ri…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption A minister said 731 banks and 70 petrol stations were set ablaze during the unrest Iranian state TV has said security forces killed what it called "thugs and rioters" during last month's mass protests against a petrol pr…

Riot Games will pay out a huge $10 million proposed settlement collectively to every woman who has been employed by the company at any time over the last five years. The settlement is one of the largest in California history for a gender discrimination suit, …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday accused Cuba and Venezuela of attempting to "hijack" democratic protests in Latin America, vowing that Washington would support countries trying to prevent unrest in the region from "morphing into riots". Amid rece…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday accused Cuba and Venezuela of attempting to hijack democratic protests in Latin America, vowing that Washington would support countries trying to prevent unrest in the region from turning in…

One of China's highest-ranking Uighur officials and the former head of the troubled northwest Xinjiang region was sentenced Monday to life in prison over graft charges, a court said. It is among the most high-profile cases in President Xi Jinping's sweeping …