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Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court
Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.
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Iran Shutting Down Morality Police,Official Says, After Months of Protests
The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
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Iranian American Oscar nominee cautions against any negotiations with Iran
Shohreh Aghdashloo may be most recognizable by her deep, easily identifiable voice found in projects including The Flight Attendant, The Punisher, an Oscar-nominated role in House of Sand and Fog and an Emmy win for HBO's House of Saddam. The actress, an Iranian American born in Tehran, fled to England before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when she was 25.
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Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild
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101 Countries Witness Rise In Civil Unrest In Last Quarter, Worst Yet To Come As Socioeconomic Pressures Build
The world is facing a huge rise in civil unrest. The impact is evident across the globe, with popular discontent over rising living costs emerging.
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The Far-Right Is Doxxing Judges and Calling For Their Assassinations
Peaceful activists have been camping out near homes of Supreme Court justices in protest over Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, the far-right is calling for assaAs peaceful protesters camp outside the homes of Supreme Court justices after the leaked draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade, far-right activists are doxxing Democratic federal judges and calling for their assassination.
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Activists seize French villa belonging to Putin’s daughter
Two Russian protesters stormed the French villa belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughter on Sunday, hoisting a Ukranian flag and changing the locks.
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New research sheds light on attitudes towards police repression of protests
After the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, public protests (both peaceful and violent) became widespread and heavily covered in the media. The nation also saw increased discussion about the intervention and involvement of police at these protests. New research, published in Criminology, shows that support for the policing of protests is higher when the protest instills fear in the public and among those who feel threatened by changes to the racial status quo in America.
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Ottawa Court Freezes $20M in Cash, Bitcoin Donated to Truckers
Residents of Ottawa, Canada have filed a lawsuit against the Freedom Convoy 2022 protesters seeking up to $20 million out of the total amount of money raised in donations worldwide to be redistributed to citizens of the city, The Globe and Mail first reported.
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NZ protesters stand strong in face of Baby Shark
Authorities in New Zealand upped the ante on Sunday as they tried to disperse protesters from outside the country's parliament.
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TD Bank freezes accounts that received money for Canada protests
Toronto-Dominion Bank has frozen two personal bank accounts into which C$1.4 million ($1.1 million) had been deposited to support protesters fighting the Canadian government's pandemic measures, a bank spokesperson said on Saturday.
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GoFundMe Rejects Fundraising for Canadian Freedom Convoy
GoFundMe calls Freedom Convoy an "occupation." What started as a protest against vaccine rules for border-crossing Canadian truckers has morphed into a massive—and more than a week long—demonstration against all sorts of COVID-19 mandates in Canada. Things have been largely peaceful, but the city of Ottawa is declaring a state of emergency and the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe is refusing to turn over millions of dollars raised for the protests.
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Months after Ma’Khia Bryant’s killing, Columbus police more emboldened than ever
On 20 April, millions held their breath as they waited for a judge to read the verdict that the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. About 20 minutes before the verdict, Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old foster child, was fatally shot by a police officer a few hundred miles away in Columbus, Ohio.
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'Bolsonaro Out!': Massive Protests as Brazil's Covid-19 Death Toll Tops 500,000
As Brazil's Covid-19 death toll surpassed 500,000 on Saturday, at least hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of more than 400 cities across the nation and around the world to blame President Jair Bolsonaro for the grim pandemic milestone and demand his ouster.
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Boris Johnson to make protests that cause 'annoyance' illegal, with prison sentences of up to 10 years
Protesters could be imprisoned for up to 10 years under the new legislation brought forward by Boris Johnson's UK government.
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Myanmar coup: Protesters defy military warning in mass strike
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Myanmar in one of the largest demonstrations yet against the country's military coup. Businesses closed as employees joined a general strike, despite a military statement that said protesters were risking their lives by turning out.
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'Women's rights are being trampled:' Voices from a protest march in Poland over near-total abortion ban
The protesters who marched through the Polish capital's icy streets on Friday night had a clear message for the government over its imposition this week of a near-total ban on abortions: We will stand up for women's rights. It was the third day of protests since the ruling came into effect -- and marked 100 days of protests since Poland's constitutional tribunal court first handed down its controversial ruling, sparking weeks of mass demonstrations.
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Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following a year in which protests demanding racial justice exploded across the world. Norwegian MP Petter Eide said in his nomination papers that the movement had forced countries other than the US to face up to racism within their own societies. “I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Mr Eide said, according to The Guardian.
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Police arrest over 2,000 at Russia protests backing jailed Kremlin foe Navalny
Police detained over 2,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters ignored extreme cold and police warnings to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
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2 Seattle police officers being investigated for involvement in Capitol attack
At least two Seattle police officers have been placed on leave and are being investigated for their alleged involvement in the U.S. Capitol protests. The Seattle Police Department released a statement Friday night saying that it was made aware Friday of the officers' involvement in the Jan. 6 siege and is now taking the appropriate measures.
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