Authorities have imposed an emergency law banning large gatherings in parts of India’s capital, Delhi, as nationwide protests escalated, injuring police and demonstrators. A week after a controversial new citizenship law was passed by parliament, which has been accused of openly discriminating against Muslims, protests across the country showed […]
Troops have been deployed to India’s ethnically diverse northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, amid violent protests against the passing of a controversial and far-reaching law that offers a path to Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries. Archeologists unearth lost town from little-known ancient […]
This story is being published as part of a content partnership with the South China Morning Post. It originally appeared on scmp.com on August 18, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters braved torrential rains on Sunday as they marched along the main thoroughfares of […]
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who became a lightning rod in 2016 when he refused to stand during the National Anthem to protest the police shootings of black men and other social injustices faced by African Americans — recognized the three-year anniversary […]
Police fired tear gas and opened fire on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as they marched in the city, the group’s spokesman Abubakar Abdulrahman said. “The police threw two canisters at us and immediately followed it by shooting at our members. […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A protest over the shooting of an unarmed black man by Sacramento police has ended with at least 80 arrests, police said. Among those detained were clergy and a reporter. Capt. Norm Leong tweets that the protest Monday night ended […]