Riots

Hong Kong has entered a recession as pro-democracy protests and a U.S.-China trade war drag on its economy. Third-quarter gross domestic product declined 3.2 percent, government data showed, the biggest drop since the financial crisis. That followed shrinkag…

Chile withdrew on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit next month at which the United States and China had been expected to sign a deal to ease a trade war that has hurt the global economy, as raging street protests gripped the South American country. The…

The Mexican government has released several dramatic, at-times-gory, new videos showing their side of the fierce gun battle that erupted between officers and criminals in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa state, as authorities tried to arrest one of the sons of i…

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Chile next month, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, adding that the decision had nothing to do with the ongoing riots in Chile. “I…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Tear gas lingered in the air in downtown Santiago on Tuesday as Chilean commuters made their way to work following another night of fire, looting and riots, in a sign that a cabinet reshuffle by President Sebastian Pinera was still not en…

Protests in Lebanon started Oct. 17 and made international headlines quickly. In Beirut, thousands of people gathered in front of Parliament for days demanding Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri take action against corruption Lebanese aren’t happy at all with thei…

Posted October 29, 2019 19:52:38 A major overhaul of all New South Wales juvenile correction facilities is underway, with an independent review into a riot at a Central Coast facility exposing systemic failures and consistent violence. Key points:

After covering the Watts riots and writing the occasional Hollywood piece early in his career as the Los Angeles correspondent for The New York Times, Deadline columnist Peter Bart made a temporary exit from journalism to leap into a Paramount Pictures job of…

How could the most prosperous city of what is, by all accounts, Latin Americas most prosperous and law-abiding country explode in protests marred by riots and looting? And what do recent events teach us about citizen dissatisfaction and the potential for viol…