Throngs of people joined rallies across the country Thursday to protest the federal policy of separating children from their parents at the Southern border. Marches and rallies took place or were planned for later in the day in more than a dozen states, including California, Texas, Michigan and New York, to draw attention to what organizers characterized in a statement as the Trump administration's "cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers."

Dozens of Berlin nightclubs have organized a dance party to protest a march led by the far-right Alternative for Germany.

After refusing to directly answer questions about her history as an alleged torturer, Ray McGovern decided to ask Gina Haspel a question or two of his own and he wound up in jail for it, reports Joe Lauria.

Aleksei Navalny was detained by police at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on May 5 in Moscow, part of a nationwide protest action organized by the Russian opposition leader.

The head of Armenia's ruling party in parliament said on Thursday that the country would get a new prime minister on May 8 after more than two weeks of street protests which have rocked Russia's close ally.

A student attends a rally outside the White House as part of nationwide walkout of classes to mark the 19th anniversary since the Columbine High School mass shooting, at Lafayette Park in Washington.

The crowd fills Pennsylvania Avenue during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control, March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are gathering for nationwide rallies in support of tighter gun control. March For Our Lives grew out of a movement calling for change after 17 people were killed by a gunman at a high school in Florida last month. On Friday, the White House said it would ban bump stocks, which give semi-automatic guns rapid-fire capability.

RIOTS broke out in Barcelona this evening after a High Court announced the temporary imprisonment of six pro-independence ministers. They have been accused of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation. Pictures from Barcelona show riot police clashing with protestors in the centre of the Catalonian capital. More than 2,000 people took to the streets tongiht to protest against the imprisonment of several top pro independance politicians.

An 18-day "protest tour" of the Carolinas will kick off in Charlotte this weekend, targeting circumcision of male children. A group called Bloodstained Men & Their Friends intends to visit 17 cities in the Carolinas during the tour, starting 10 a.m. Saturday maybe add in the SouthPark area? at the intersection of Sharon and Fairview roads. A second Charlotte protest is scheduled April 10, in the heart of uptown at Trade and Tryon streets.

Students at an estimated 3,000 schools and universities across the United States are expected to stage a 17-minute walkout on Wednesday morning to protest about government inaction on preventing school shootings and everyday gun violence. The protest marks a month to the day since the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, which left 17 people dead. The walkouts are supposed to last 17 minutes in tribute to each of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas victims.

The government's inability to deliver a loan waiver and crop failures, poor returns and forcible land acquisition has led to huge discontent among farmers. By Kanchan Srivastava. (Mar. 12, 2018)

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been accused of pulling down a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in Tripura state. Monday's incident happened days after the party swept elections in the north-eastern state, dislodging the Communist government after 25 years. The five-year-old statue in Belonia town was removed with the help of an excavator as supporters cheered. There have been clashes between BJP and Communist party workers in the state.

In March 1968, a student revolt crushed by Poland’s baton-wielding police was used as a pretext for an anti-Semitic purge by the communist regime. By Michel Viatteau.

Evo Morales’s new allies are political alliances, and they lack the revolutionary fervor of his old ones. By Jessica Camille Aguirre.

A group of Russian activists spent the night in jail after spray-painting a giant slogan against President Vladimir Putin on the frozen surface of a major river in the center of his hometown, regional news outlet Rosbalt reported. Nine activists immediately attracted police attention on Saturday night as several neared the bank of the frosty Fontanka River in St. Petersburg to paint “Against Putin” on the ice. Police officers arrived on the scene within five minutes, one of the activists told Rosbalt, and detained all nine members of the group.

Several thousand protesters in Macedonia have demanded that the government call off ongoing talks with neighboring Greece over a decades-long name dispute. Civic organizations joined under the motto "We are Macedonia" to organize a rally in the capital, Skopje, on Sunday.

Russian operatives used inflammatory social media posts to disrupt U.S. energy policy, including inciting environmentalists to protest against pipeline projects, House Republicans said in a report released Thursday. The report, released by the majority staff of the House Science Committee, said it found evidence Russian-sponsored agents used Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to suppress the research and development of fossil fuels and stymie efforts to expand the use of natural gas.

West Virginia's teachers are refusing to go to school for a fourth day Tuesday in protest of pay that is among the lowest in the nation. Teachers are on strike in all 55 West Virginia counties and rallied outside the state capitol on Monday.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after he was arrested Sunday during anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow, according to his official Twitter account. Navalny wrote that he was released until a court hearing, but did not provide details on when the hearing would be held. He also thanked demonstrators who had gathered near the detention center where he was being held.