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Image copyrightReuters Thousands of protesters in Ecuador have clashed with security forces in the capital, Quito. The protests are led by indigenous groups demanding the end of austerity and the return of fuel subsidies. Demonstrators have been throwing …

Protesters raised new roadblocks and set fire to tires around the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, as violent anti-government riots that have left at least 18 dead continue to rock Haiti for the fourth straight week. Haitians first rose up on Septemb…

LONDON, United Kingdom — “Brexit, geopolitical tensions have potential to significantly harm our industry,” said Richemont’s Johann Rupert earlier this month. In Hong Kong, whilst the extradition bill has now been officially withdrawn, protests have, if anyt…

Senior lawyer HS Phoolka on Sunday denied reports of him joining BJP. (Express file photo) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had advised senior advocate and human rights activist HS Phoolka not to resign from the Punjab Assembly, but he still went ahead with his dec…

HONG KONG -- A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge Saturday against the government's use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of face masks at rallies to quell anti-government demonstrations, as the prote…

HONG KONG - Even with the city in lockdown mode, thousands in face masks marched on Saturday (Oct 5) from the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay to Central, holding banners and chanting slogans, openly defying the face-mask ban which took effect on the sa…

Yuvraj Mohite’s deposition before the Srikrishna Commission set up to investigate the 1993 Mumbai riots. Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty On the evening of January 8, 1993, then 27-year-old reporter Yuvraj Mohite overheard Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray gi…

The charred remains of SHO Subodh Kumar Singhs vehicle, set on fire by a mob in Bulandshahr on Monday. (Express file photo) The key accused in the December 2018 Bulandshahr riots, in which a policeman was killed allegedly by the mob protesting against allege…

Hong Kong's embattled leader insisted a new measure banning masks at rallies was not a move toward authoritarian rule or at the behest of the Chinese government, which signalled its approval shortly after she implemented the toughened response to quell four m…

Hong Kong's embattled leader has used a colonial-era emergency law to ban protesters from wearing face masks after four months of anti-government demonstrations that have, at times, turned violent and put the city on edge. Interested in China? Add China as …