Riots

It takes only a few minutes for Joker to spell out the closest thing this movie has to a point. "Is it just me," Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) asks, "or are things getting really crazy out there?" Even this early in the film, we already know it's not just Arthur…

Police broke up a scuffle Tuesday between Beijing supporters and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China. (Oct. 1) AP Domestic A pro-democracy protester was shot and at least 30 were arrested as viol…

(Recasts with cabinet meeting, NGO quotes) By Alkis Konstantinidis and Vassilis Triandafyllou LESBOS, Greece, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Greece aims to deport 10,000 migrants by the end of next year, the government said on Monday, following a deadly fire and clash…

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam came under a barrage of criticism at a town hall session Thursday, with citizens accusing her government of turning a deaf ear to months of protests calling for democratic reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. READ MOR…

BORIS Johnson has been warned Britain faces civil unrest on the scale of the riots in Los Angeles or French gilet jaunes protests if Brexit is frustrated, it has been reported. The Prime Minister has been accused of using inciting language for describing a n…

HONG KONG (AP) Scores of protesters chanted slogans outside a stadium in Hong Kong where embattled city leader Carrie Lam held a town hall session on Thursday aimed at cooling down months of demonstrations for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese …

Mr. Joko rose to national prominence at least in part because he was a civilian and, unlike his opponents, was unburdened by prior political sins like human rights violations. He promised, among other things, welfare for the poor and a break and a reckoning w…

The charred remains of SHO Subodh Kumar Singhs vehicle set on fire by a mob in Bulandshahr on Monday. (Express file photo) The Allahabad High Court Wednesday granted bail to the main accused in last year’s Bulandshahr violence that had led to the death of a …

BERLIN (Reuters) - A majority of Germans in the former communist East feel like second-class citizens almost three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall even though they are catching up economically with western regions, a government report showed on Wedn…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California prison officials have halted an experiment aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling and even rioting when allowed to mingle together in prison recreation yards, o…