Protesters clash with police in Warsaw in third night of protests over near-total ban on abortions

Women’s right protesters clashed with police in Warsaw on Friday for a third night of demonstrations over a near-total ban on abortions with rape, incest or saving the mother’s life the only exemptions.  Poles took to the streets of Warsaw, Gdansk and other cities for a third night of protests Friday, after a near-total ban … Read more

Protesters clash with police in Warsaw in third night of protests over near-total ban on abortions

Women’s right protesters clashed with police in Warsaw on Friday for a third night of demonstrations over a near-total ban on abortions with rape, incest or saving the mother’s life the only exemptions.  Poles took to the streets of Warsaw, Gdansk and other cities for a third night of protests Friday, after a near-total ban … Read more

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with riot cops during anti-lockdown protests in Israel

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews have clashed with riot police during anti-lockdown protests in Jerusalem. Protesters threw rocks at vehicles, used large bins to block roads and damaged a bus during the Tuesday morning demonstration in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Sharim neighbourhood, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing police. Police responded with water cannon, dispersing the crowds and arresting … Read more

Melbourne’s Australia Day protests turn ugly as man is carried out in handcuffs

An ‘Invasion Day’ protest in Melbourne turned ugly after a man donning a ‘Proud Boys’ t-shirt and Australian flag cape clashed with furious protesters – before being dragged out of the city in handcuffs. Thousands of protesters congregated outside parliament on Spring Street on Tuesday for a socially distanced march, joining many thousands more around … Read more

Youths torch Dutch Covid testing centre amid fiery anti-lockdown protests across Europe 

Youths torched a Dutch Covid testing centre and an effigy of the Danish Prime Minister was set alight in fiery anti-lockdown protests sweeping across Europe.  The testing facility in the village of Urk in the Netherlands went up in flames on Saturday night with its burnt-out shell remaining cordoned off on Sunday. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, … Read more

US Capitol riots: Joe Biden calls pro-Trump protests ‘insurrection’

Joe Biden calls Trump mob storming Congress ‘an insurrection’ and blames Donald Trump for ‘stoking the flames of hate and chaos’ in address to the nation just before president tells supporters ‘we love you, go home now’ President-elect Joe Biden told President Donald Trump to order his ‘extremist mob’ out of the U.S. Capitol, labeling … Read more

Pro-Trump protests hit Kansas, Oregon, California and Georgia

Militia members have gathered outside the Georgia Capitol and pro-Trump protesters have reportedly infiltrated the the Kansas statehouse, as riots over the president’s election loss erupt nationwide. Violence broke out in Washington DC Wednesday after thousands of Trump supporters breached security perimeters at the Capitol with lawmakers inside the House Chamber urged to put on … Read more

Candace Cameron Bure DENIES being a part of brother Kirk’s Christmas caroling protests

Candace Cameron Bure has denied she took part in her brother Kirk’s recent Christmas caroling protests.  The Fuller House star took to Twitter late Wednesday to issue a statement in which she appeared to condone CDC recommended measures for preventing the spread of COVID-19. However she stopped short of condemning her Growing Pains alum sibling … Read more

Women post photos of their legs in stockings to support tights model jailed for protests in Belarus

Women are posting photos of their legs in stockings to support a tights model who was jailed for protesting against the re-election of President Lukashenko in Belarus. Former Miss Belarus Olga Khizinkova was arrested last month after taking part in huge ‘unauthorised’ demonstrations in Minsk.  Female protesters are now flooding social media with photos of their … Read more

Iran hangs journalist Ruhollah Zam, 47, for inspiring 2017 protests

Iran on Saturday executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.  Ruhollah Zam, 47, was killed a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into traveling to Iraq, where he was abducted. Zam was one of several opposition figures successfully seized by Iranian intelligence operatives … Read more