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Anthony Irungu / BBC The mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were strikingly young – children shedding tears as they bade farewell to a 16-year-old friend, who was shot dead while banging pots and pans in an opposition-organised protest against the outcome of last month’s presidential election. “Antonio was shot in the […]
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has revealed he had access to “internal” US government information but denied a former top aide’s allegation he had pressured his now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid to draft a sanctions list for Washington after Hong Kong adopted the 2020 national security law. Lai, 76, returned to the witness box on […]
Detained media mogul Jimmy Lai wanted to “explain” the thinking behind protesters’ storming of the legislature in 2019 through his newspaper Apple Daily to ensure the movement’s survival, the tycoon’s national security trial has heard. Lai, whose defence questioning expected to take 15 days, took the stand for the second day on Thursday. Under defence […]
A flotilla of kayaks will be launched into Newcastle Harbour on Friday morning to protest coal exports after the protesters won an 11th-hour victory in the NSW Supreme Court overturning a government ban. Less than an hour before a marine exclusion zone for Newcastle Harbour was due to take effect, Justice Sarah McNaughton ruled on […]
On October 24, five police officers turned up on Jasmine Duff’s doorstep. Despite not having a warrant, Duff claims they insisted on coming into the house to look for her. “They walked into my room as I was climbing out of bed and placed me under arrest,” Duff tells Crikey. “One officer stayed in the […]
Protesters who stormed the parliament building in Georgia’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia refused to leave the premises on Saturday, despite the president’s offer to resign. Opposition activists stormed the parliament and a presidential administration building in the region’s capital, Sukhumi, on Friday, protesting an investment agreement with Moscow that would allow Russians to buy local real estate. […]
A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of the mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple — King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia — on Sunday during their first visit to the epicentre of their nation’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory. Spain’s national broadcaster reported the barrage included a few rocks and other objects, and […]
Throughout the election season, Vice President Kamala Harris’ rallies have been plagued by anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters, despite the vice president’s efforts not to upset this cohort of the electorate. Protesters gathered at Harris’ campaign stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Wednesday, often disrupting the vice president and forcing her to pause in the […]
Israeli protesters have interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech during a memorial to remember the victims of the October 7 attack as the Gaza ceasefire talks restarted in Doha, Qatar. Netanyahu stood motionless at a podium during the ceremony on Sunday as audience members in the crowd shouted, interrupting him for more than a […]
PTI workers stage the protest against constitutional amendment and party founder Imran Khan’s imprisonment in Chiniot city, Punjab, on October 18, 2024. — X/@PTIofficial Amid the imposition of Section 144 restrictions in Punjab and Sindh capital, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged protests in major cities against the proposed 26th constitutional amendment and party founder Imran […]