One shot as Kenyan protests at US Ebola centre turn violent
At least one person was shot as Kenyan police fought violent running battles with protesters Tuesday over an Ebola quarantine centre being built for US citizens in a tourist town...
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India removes exam chief over marking fiasco
Indian authorities have removed top education bosses from the exam board after marking failures in tests taken by nearly two million high school students sparked outrage and calls for protests...
IBBL depositors’ protest enters 3rd day
Protests against the appointment of Khurshid Alam as chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC entered a third consecutive day on Wednesday, with hundreds of depositors and shareholders vowing to prevent him from assuming office and threatening an indefinite blockade of the bank’s headquarters if he attempts to enter...
Kenya protests over US Ebola centre turn deadly
Protests over a fiercely contested Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals in Kenya have killed one man, a rights group said Tuesday, as president William Ruto defended the planned centre...
New Jersey city authorities declare curfew following ICE protest violence
The mayor of a New Jersey city declared a curfew Sunday around a migrant detention center after another night of clashes between police and protesters opposed to president Donald Trump’s immigration policies...
4-year-old child raped in Chattogram
Local people on Thursday held protests in Chattogram city’s Bakalia area following news of alleged rape of a four-year-old child by a youth.
Protests erupt over child rape, murder
The government on Thursday assured a swift and exemplary trial as protests erupted across the country over the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl child whose body parts were recently found in the capital’s Mirpur area.
Blackouts, protests as Cuba says fuel has ‘run out’
Cuba was hit by worsening power outages on Thursday as the island’s communist government said oil reserves had run out and rare protests broke out around the capital Havana...
CAB protests at ‘artificial’ edible oil crisis, calls for urgent action
Consumer rights body Consumers Association of Bangladesh on Wednesday formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club protesting what it called an artificial shortage of edible oil in the market and placed a five-point demand to resolve the crisis...
2 students injured as ceiling collapses at JnU, protests erupt over safety concerns
Two students were injured after a portion of the ceiling plaster collapsed inside a seminar room at Jagannath University on Wednesday morning, triggering protests on campus over long-standing infrastructure issues...
Head of victorious Nepal party hails ‘win for the country’
The head of the victorious party in Nepal’s election hailed its landslide triumph as a ‘win for the country’ on Wednesday, urging new lawmakers to deliver for people who ‘sacrificed their blood’ in last year’s protests...
Ladakh activist renews calls for talks with Indian govt
Prominent Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk called for fresh talks on Tuesday with India’s government, just days after being released from prison where he had been held for six months over deadly protests in the Himalayan region...
Madagascar’s leader fires PM, cabinet
Madagascar’s leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, has sacked his prime minister and dissolved the cabinet he appointed soon after seizing power following youth-led protests five months ago...
German school students rally against army recruitment drive
Thousands of German teenagers skipped school Thursday to join protests against a stepped-up military recruitment drive that many fear may in future involve a form of conscription...
Protests continue against attack on Iran
Different political parties and organisations on Wednesday continued holding rallies and processions in Dhaka protesting against the attacks on Iran by the military forces of the United States and Israel...
Nepal readies for pivotal post-uprising vote
Nepal set up polling centres on Wednesday for one of its most hotly contested elections since the end of civil war in 2006, six months after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government...
Nepali women still sidelined in post-uprising polls
Nepali women risked their lives in last year’s deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the government...
25 killed at Pakistan’s weekend Iran protests
The death toll from Pakistan’s violent weekend protests over the killing of Iran’s supreme leader in US-Israeli strikes has reached at least 25, according to an AFP tally on Monday...
Protests nationwide mark Greece’s worst train disaster
Tens of thousands of people across Greece demonstrated Saturday in solidarity with victims of the country’s worst train tragedy, which claimed 57 lives in 2023 and rattled the government of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis...
Protests erupt as police beat journalists, DU students
The police on Monday evening beat up journalists and a Dhaka University student during an anti-narcotics drive in the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan, drawing widespread criticism and protests demanding the removal of Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner for Ramna division Masud Alam...
CAB protests against obstruction to market drives
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh formed a human chain in the capital and in Rajshahi on Sunday, protesting an alleged threat and attempt to mobilise traders against an executive magistrate during a market monitoring drive in Dhaka ahead of Ramadan...
Japan protests China comments on reviving ‘militarism’
Tokyo said it had lodged a ‘stern demarche’ to China through diplomatic channels after Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi accused ‘far-right forces’ in Japan of seeking to revive militarism...
Iran announces enquiry team to investigate deadly protests
The Iranian government announced on Friday the establishment of a commission of enquiry to look into protests against the high cost of living..
Sri Lanka sentence 12 to death over lawmaker’s mob killing
A Sri Lankan court sentenced 12 men to death on Wednesday for the 2022 mob killing of a lawmaker during protests that toppled the president of the South Asian nation...
Mobile phone shops reopen 21 days after NEIR protests
Mobile phone traders across the country reopened their shops after 21 days on Thursday, suspending a nationwide protest against the National Equipment Identity Register system launched by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on January 1...
RU staff stage protests for safe workplace
A group of officers and employees of Rajshahi University on Wednesday formed a human chain demanding a safe and secure working environment on the campus...
Dhaka dwellers suffer as students block roads at five points
City dwellers suffered for hours as students of different educational institutions on Wednesday blocked major crossings on different demands in the capital Dhaka, halting vehicular movements and causing huge traffic congestion...
Trump urges Iranians to oust rulers, says ‘help’ on its way
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Iranians should continue nationwide protests and take over the country’s institutions as authorities there cracked down on mass demonstrations.
Iran govt stages mass rallies as alarm grows over protest toll
Iranian authorities on Monday sought to regain control of the streets with mass nationwide rallies in the wake of protests on a scale unprecedented in recent years, as alarm grew over a deadly crackdown.
US sends more agents to Minneapolis despite furour over woman’s killing
Hundreds more federal agents were heading to Minneapolis, the US homeland security chief said Sunday..