Tag: Political and civil unrest

Belgian govt announces breakthrough in migrant hunger strike

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BRUSSELS — The Belgian government announced a breakthrough Wednesday that it hoped would end a hunger strike by several hundred migrants seeking to collectively...

Greece: Tear gas fired during protest of vaccine mandate

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ATHENS, Greece — Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who gathered Wednesday in Athens to oppose coronavirus vaccination requirements proposed...

White woman granted probation for spitting on Black woman

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HARTFORD, Conn. — A white woman who was charged with a hate crime after being caught on video spitting on a Black woman during...

McCarthy proposes 5 Republicans to sit on Jan. 6 panel

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WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection...

Long-banned athlete protest acts expected at Tokyo Olympics

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TOKYO — Athlete activism is making a comeback at these Olympic Games. ...

An Olympics like no other, Tokyo perseveres to host Games

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TOKYO — It's an Olympics like no other — and the Tokyo Games are surely that — but this is an event that has...

Case dropped against dead woman in Indiana hit-and-run case

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INDIANAPOLIS — Prosecutors dropped their case against an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer...

Belarus opposition leader seeks new US sanctions on country

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WASHINGTON — The main leader of Belarus’ embattled opposition on Tuesday sought and apparently won U.S. support for increasing pressure on the country’s authoritarian...

Dane who drew controversial Muhammad caricature dies at 86

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HELSINKI — Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban was at the center of widespread...