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Authorities in France have made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday following a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of 17-year-old  Nahel Merzouk, who was allegedly ‘executed’ by police during a traffic stop.     The 17-year-old whose death on Tuesday, June, 27,  spawned the anger was …

Demonstrators have burned hundreds of cars and damaged buildings in protests that erupted after a French police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.

F.B.I. analysts improperly used a warrantless surveillance program to search for information about hundreds of Americans who came under scrutiny in connection with two politically charged episodes of civil unrest: the protests after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a …

Eddie McGuire has warned those opposing a brand new stadium in Tasmania that the AFL could pull out of introducing a new team to the state if they keep up the protests. Locals have been left fuming at the AFL making a new stadium a prerequisite for Tasmania to be …

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has asked Peter Obi to take down a photo of them he shared on Twitter and replaced it with a more flattering one.    The Labour Party (LP) candidate had posted a photo of himself with Sani and Mike Ozeokhome (SAN) at an event …

A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself on fire earlier this week in what he said was a protest against the “police state” ruling the country, his brother said Friday, April 14. According to Tunisian media, Issaoui decided to make his extreme protest against the police after …

Protesters across France demonstrated ahead of a constitutional ruling that may be the final legal obstacle in President Emmanuel Macron’s push to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62.

CNN  —  Benjamin Netanyahu resisted calls to drop his controversial overhaul of Israel’s judiciary in a fiery televised address Thursday, hours after his government passed a law that was condemned by critics as an effort to protect his position. Israeli opposition politicians earlier condemned the new law, which would limit …

With a Manhattan grand jury indictment likely but its timing unclear, Donald J. Trump sought to rally supporters to his side, declaring that he would be arrested on Tuesday and calling for protests. Mr. Trump made the declaration on his site, Truth Social, at 7:26 a.m. on Saturday in a …

At 7:51 p.m., CCTV footage shows a group of people dragging two young men who were fatally shot out of the police’s line of sight. In cellphone footage of the scene, the victims lie on the pavement, bleeding profusely. The Times has identified these two victims as 20-year-old Paul Franklin …