Riots

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to …

After bloody race riots rocked Chinas far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority. Now, newly revealed, c…

By Aislinn Laing and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile’s defense minister on Friday issued a furious rebuttal of claims by Amnesty International that excessive force was “intentionally” used on protesters to “punish” them for taking to the…

Minutes after protests broke out in over 100 cities across Iran on Friday, following a 50 percent hike in fuel prices, officials at the state-run Telecommunication Company of Iran (TIC) put in motion a plan to suffocate the demonstrations, cutting off the oxy…

As clashes escalated significantly over the last week, forcing schools to shut, fears have grown that China may again call on military reinforcements to restore order, a move that would recall the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 when soldiers fired on peace…

President Hassan Rouhani warned on Sunday that "anarchy and rioting" would not be tolerated after fuel price hikes led to deadly mass protests throughout Iran. An estimated 87,000 people took part in the demonstrations, the semi-official Fars news agency rep…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile’s independent human rights watchdog said on Saturday it would file a formal complaint for murder against police officers who allegedly prevented paramedics from attending a heart attack victim amid a protest Friday. Security force…

With more than 3 million people now being held in forced indoctrination camps in western China, ruling party is beginning to experience some cracks in its once impenetrable facade.  One of the biggest leaks in the history of the country published Saturday by…

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Alibaba, Now May Not Be the Best Time to IPO in Hong Kong Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) is going public in Hong Kong with a $13.4 billion listing, and its putting extra stress on the Hong Kong banking system specifically at a time when the island is on the verge of ex…