ALEPPO/DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) — Protests in Syria, triggered by claims of damage to a religious shrine, were the result of provocations by elements of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime, the country’s interim government said. Protests erupted in several areas, including Hama, Homs, Latakia, Tartus, and the towns of Jableh and Banyas, after video...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
Liverpool, United Kingdom – AFP Far-right protesters clashed with British police during tense rallies Saturday as unrest linked to disinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young girls spread across the UK. The violence, which has seen scores of arrests across England and put Britain’s Muslim community on edge, present...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Protesting students in Bangladesh have rejected the prime minister’s call for dialogue. “The door of the Ganabhaban (official prime minister’s residence) is open. I want to sit with the students and listen to them. I want no conflict,” said Sheikh Hasina, the premier. She also ordered the release of “innocent” st...
Algiers, Algeria — AFP Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accused of leading a crackdown on dissent since mass protests in 2019, is to face two challengers in a September 7 election, organisers have said. Abdelaali Hassani of the moderate party the Movement of Society for Peace and Youssef Aouchiche of the centre-left Socialist For...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The University of Melbourne is being investigated for violating privacy laws by using surveillance to identify students participating in a sit-in protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to the local media. Twenty-one student protesters at the university were previously served with “general mi...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Thousands of residents in Mogadishu took to the streets on Thursday in order to protest Ethiopia’s Red Sea access and naval base deal with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. The deal has sparked outrage among Somalis in and outside of the Horn of Africa nation. Protesters included students from secondary ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Hundreds of garment factories in Bangladesh have shuttered as thousands of workers staged violent protests to demand a near-tripling of their wages. Bangladesh’s 3,500 garment factories account for around 85 percent of the South Asian country’s $55 billion in annual exports, supplying major Western bra...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian boy near Ramallah city in the West Bank, raising the death toll in the occupied territory to 105 since October 7. “The young boy, Asad Hamidat, 17, was killed by the occupation gunfire in the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah, bringing the total […]
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – People in the Somali capital of Mogadishu took to the streets on Friday to protest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and to show solidarity with Palestinians. Protesters, including religious figures, youth, and women, chanted slogans against Israeli aggression and in support of Palestinian struggle for freedom. Some of t...
