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Several Google employees were arrested on Tuesday for taking part in a 10-hour sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and California. The protest, organized by members of the No Tech For Apartheid movement, was meant as a challenge…
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Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the country’s 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings, and to demand the release of jailed opposition leaders. They marched down the central…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to backtarck on a comment he was reported to have made earlier about the need to check if a pre-war protest among army reservists pushed Hamas to carry out its attack last month.…
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Some 400 migrants and refugees protested at the port of Rhodes island on Sunday, demanding to be transferred elsewhere in Greece and obstructing port traffic, the Greek coast guard said. Most who protested their conditions had been…
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Three prisoners died and 16 others were injured in Zahle prison in eastern Lebanon on Friday when inmates set fire to their cells in anger after an apparent escape attempt was uncovered. Police said the blaze started in several cells on…
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Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians scuffled with riot police on Thursday outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in northern Beirut during a protest against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the enclave’s…
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Long-standing tensions between Morocco and Algeria have moved up a notch with a deadly confrontation at sea last week between the Algerian Coast Guard and several men on water scooters. Algeria’s Defense Ministry has acknowledged that…
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A Dutch far-right activist trampled on and tore up a copy of the Qur’an at a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in The Hague on Friday, infuriating dozens of counter-protesters. The Dutch government had already condemned the…
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Swedish police on Friday said they had granted a permit for a protest which would include burning holy texts outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, sparking condemnation from Israel and Jewish organizations. The controversial protest,…
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Thousands of protesters descended on Britain’s Parliament on Saturday as part of a four-day campaign designed to “highlight the environmental failures” of government. Environmental group Extinction Rebellion or XR kicked off the event on…
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