Riots

In the wake of violent clashes in Hong Kong on Sunday, during which a live gunshot was fired for the first time since protests began in early June, Chinese state media used its harshest rhetoric yet to condemn the unrest and warned that Beijing could soon int…

League Of Legends developers Riot Games have this week agreed to settle one of the class action lawsuits levied against them, paying up to the women who sued them for gender discrimination. Hooray for those women getting what they consider to be a fair settle…

In the modern sneaker game, riots are something of a slightly-distant memory. Weve come a long way from the days of the notorious 2011 Air Jordan 11 Concord drama. That said, can you blame sneakerheads for raising a little hell over 99-cent pairs of shoes? L…

Protesters face riot police during a standoff at Yuen Long MTR station, in Hong Kong, on Aug. 21, 2019. TYRONE SIU/Reuters Support for protesters in Hong Kong has come from an unexpected place: internet users in mainland China who are turning to encrypted …

Berlin (AFP) - A 24-year-old Syrian man is expected to face a court verdict Thursday over a knife killing that sparked far-right street violence and protests in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. The ruling comes at a sensitive time, one year after thousan…

Yesterday, Trump cancelled a meeting with the new Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, because she refused to discuss the sale of Greenland. Greenland used to be a Danish colony but now belongs to the people of Greenland—the Danish government could not s…

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has sought to ease tensions after violent protests in several cities in West Papua region following claims of racist abuse and physical mistreatment of Papuan students. In a statement late on Monday, the president, also known…

John Oliver isn’t surprised that President Trump wants to buy Greenland. On Sunday, Trump confirmed reports that he tasked administration officials with inquiring about purchasing the autonomous Danish country, and on Last Week Tonight, Oliver picked a hilari…

A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV shows already in development. Sprawling cast, gorgeous visuals, tediously on-the-nose themes. Some handsome B-lister tearing around the country in pursuit of his wayward kids, or the shadowy sect tha…

Hong Kong democracy activists gather to protest amidst the rain on Sunday, Newslook, Newslook Heavy rain failed to keep hundreds of thousands of protesters from swarming Hong Kong streets Sunday as pro-democracy demonstrators rallied against the slowly tig…