Protests in Minneapolis after fatal shooting of black man by officer who 'drew handgun instead of taser'
The city is already experiencing tensions as the George Floyd murder trial continues.
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The city is already experiencing tensions as the George Floyd murder trial continues.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said he expected closing arguments to begin next week.
Protests against the 1 February coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi are still ongoing.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council has strongly condemned the use of violence against peaceful protesters.
The festival, dubbed ‘La Boum’ or ‘the party’, had been advertised on social media and police warned that it was a fake event on April Fool’s Day.
Labour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says dismissing protesters as ‘cranks’ will not work.
Earlier, the civilian leader of Myanmar’s government vowed a ‘revolution’ against the junta.
More than 70 people are believed to have been killed during the clashes.
Students and other civilians took part in one of many daily protests across the country against the military’s seizure of power last month.
Police in Yangon used tear gas against the protesters.
Footage showed protesters in Yangon running away from police as they charged at them.
Demonstrators had sought to assemble in Yangon and Mandalay.
Mya Thwet Thwet Khine was shot during a demonstration in Naypyitaw on February 9.
The country’s new military leadership has so far been unmoved by a torrent of international condemnation.
Protesters are calling for power to be restored to Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposed civilian government.
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
Around 250 people were arrested following protests across the Netherlands yesterday over a new curfew.
Hundreds gathered to protest a curfew in place until February.
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
Hazel Chu was approached by a group of people who criticised her for wearing a mask and referred to her as a ‘shape-shifting dragon’.
Fans gathered outside the stadium calling for manager Neil Lennon to be sacked after a defeat to Ross County.
The four officers are under investigation for ‘violence with a racist motive’.
In the capital Minsk, police wielded clubs and used tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of demonstrators.
Seven ministers of Peru’s cabinet resigned last night.
The protesters, some of them armed, gathered overnight in the wake of the president’s baseless claims of election fraud.
Protests by Trump supporters took place in multiple locations, whereas other marchers demanded every vote must be counted.
Scattered protests also took place from Seattle to New York City, but across the US there were no signs of widespread unrest.
Krakow, Wroclaw, Szczecin and Lodz have all seen protests.
A court ruling last week, when published, will rule out abortions in almost all cases in Poland.
There have been protests in Belarus since early August.
More than 200,000 people swarmed the streets of the country’s capital, Minsk.
An official toll says 51 civilians, 11 policemen and seven soldiers have been killed during unrest linked to protests about police abuse.
The Constitutional Court ruling severely restricts access to abortion in Poland.
Nigeria has been gripped by protests against police brutality.
Defiant protesters at the scene had sung the national anthem and pledged to remain out on the streets despite the stay-at-home order.
More than 100 people have been detained by Belarusian police as thousands protest.
The protesters held a candelit vigil in Beirut at the site of the port explosion in August.
The emergency was declared in the capital following months of protests.