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[Link] Protests break out at Covid-hit iPhone factory in China
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating on Weibo and Twitter appeared to show.
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[Link] Lyra McKee’s family appeal for fresh information about her killing
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The family of Lyra McKee has appealed to the public for fresh information about her killing on the third anniversary of the journalist’s murder in Northern Ireland.
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[Link] Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. The D.C. attorney general is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages for allegedly “planning, promoting, and participating in” the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, he announced Tuesday.
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[Link] Australian deployment to Solomon Islands caught in political cross-fire engulfing Honiara
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The deployment of officers from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji to help quell violent protests that have rocked the capital of Honiara has proved controversial.
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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.
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[Link] Five police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured after clashing with hundreds of anti-establishment protesters in Parliament Square on Bonfire Night. Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks had gathered at nearby Trafalgar Square at the annual Million Mask March with some throwing fireworks at officers.
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[Link] Police attacked in Belfast at protest over Northern Ireland protocol
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police in Belfast have been attacked with missiles and fireworks following a demonstration against the Brexit protocol in the north of the city. The disorder on Wednesday night took place on Lanark Way in the loyalist Shankill Road area close to the peace wall.
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[Link] The Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on protest shows it will never serve its own people
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
On 24 June, Nizar Banat, a longtime activist and outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), was reportedly arrested and beaten outside his cousin’s home in Hebron by the authority’s security forces – he died in custody shortly after.
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[Link] Capitol attack committee issues sweeping requests for official records
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The House select committee tasked with investigating the 6 January attacks on the Capitol has issued its first round of sweeping demands for records from multiple US government agencies.
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[Link] Police fire rubber bullets at hundreds of Thai protesters demanding PM's resignation
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than a thousand Thai anti-government protesters have clashed with police as they protest the government's failure to handle coronavirus outbreaks and its impact on the economy.
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[Link] Retired US general says the Trump White House 'was complicit in the planning' of the January 6 insurrection
Read: 31/7/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who was tasked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with conducting a review of the US Capitol's security after January 6, on Tuesday said President Donald Trump's White House was complicit in orchestrating the insurrection.
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[Link] Colombia Police Respond to Protests With Bullets, and Death Toll Mounts
Read: 6/5/2021 www.nytimes.com
The eruption of anger in Colombia, where at least 24 have died as the government cracks down on the protests, could spread to other countries in the region that share the same combustible conditions. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A teenager shot to death after kicking a police officer.
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[Link] Pa. National Guard activated as Philly preps for potential unrest ahead of Derek Chauvin murder trial verdict
Read: 18/4/2021 www.inquirer.com
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[Link] Minneapolis under curfew following protests against police killing of 20-year-old black man
Read: 13/4/2021 www.sbs.com.au
Fresh protests broke out Monday night in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young black man when she appeared to confuse her handgun with her taser, fueling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial.
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[Link] Bristol’s Kill The Bill protest movement has its own ‘Matapacos’ riot dog
Read: 7/4/2021 phoenix.coop
On 27 March, a protester at Bristol’s Kill the Bill demo was seemingly defended by a police dog. The canny hound turned on a police officer and bit him; this appeared to set the man free.
[Link] Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew
Read: 27/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
About 150 people were arrested on Monday in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where shops were vandalised and looted, and the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, issued an emergency decree giving police broader powers of arrest.