Lebanon

Lebanese cabinet agrees reform list, 2020 budget

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri agreed on Sunday a package of reforms to ease an economic crisis that has sparked nationwide protests.

20 October 2019

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Pro-EU protesters shout at British ministers leaving parliament

The ministers were leaving after an extraordinary sitting of parliament in which lawmakers were supposed to frame the approval of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's EU divorce deal. But lawmakers passed an amendment that removes any chance of a no-deal Brexit by deferring a decision on the agreement.

19 October 2019

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Jane Fonda arrested again in Washington DC at climate change protest

Jane Fonda is picking up where she left off in civil disobedience nearly a half-century ago. But there's one thing that's changed: that step up into the police van is tougher at age 81.

19 October 2019

Lebanon

Beirut flooded with protesters as the government remains paralysed

Demonstrators called for the "downfall of the regime" in Lebanon as tens of thousands took to the streets protesting against corruption and government inaction.

19 October 2019

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Angry protesters block major roads in Lebanon

Nationwide protests paralyzed Lebanon on Friday as demonstrators blocked major roads in a second day of rallies against the government's handling of a severe economic crisis and the entire country's political class.

18 October 2019

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Protest against Brexit as outline deal is reached

Around 50 anti-Brexit demonstrators gathered near the European Council building in Brussels on Thursday as the EU and the UK announced that a Brexit outline deal had been reached.

17 October 2019

Spain

Catalan pro-independence protesters clash with police

Protesters clash with police in third day of Catalan pro-independence demonstrations

16 October 2019

Europe News

Dutch farmers protest 'unfair climate goals'

The thousands of farmers gathering here say government measures to meet their climate change targets are unfairly hitting them. And not other industries like aerospace - the nearby Schiphol airport up for a massive expansion.

16 October 2019

Netherlands

Watch: Tractor convoy heads to The Hague as Dutch farmers protest

Farmers say they are unfairly blamed for high nitrogen emissions and are demanding an "independent party" measures farms' emissions.

16 October 2019

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Protesters and police in fierce battles at Barcelona airport

Police clashed with Catalan independence supporters at Barcelona airport during protests Monday after 12 separatist leaders were sentenced for their part in a failed secession bid in 2017.

15 October 2019

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Spanish police clash with Catalan separatists as they try to disperse

Police clashed with protesters late on Monday night in downtown Barcelona after Spain's Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting the wealthy Catalonia region's independence and sentenced nine of them to prison.

15 October 2019

Business

Apple removed police-tracking app

Apple removed an app that protestors in Hong Kong have used to track police movements.

10 October 2019

Italy

Italian politicians condemn hanged effigy of Greta Thunberg

Pictures posted on social media show the effigy sporting two blond braids. It also reportedly had a sign saying "Greta is your God."

7 October 2019

United Kingdom

Hundreds arrested in Extinction Rebellion disruptive action across Eur

The environmental activist group has begun two weeks of protests across Europe and in cities worldwide.

7 October 2019

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Journalist hit by petrol bomb as Hong Kong protesters defy law

Police fired tear gas and baton-charged the crowds, while some demonstrators threw bricks and petrol bombs at police

7 October 2019

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Tear gas fired at protesters in Hong Kong during protests

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday wearing face masks in defiance of colonial-era emergency powers

6 October 2019

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Arrests after police charge protesters in Hong Kong

Hong Kong protesters marched in the rain on Sunday while wearing face masks, in defiance against a ban on them that started on Saturday at midnight

6 October 2019

Iraq

Euronews Tonight | Why are protesters taking to the streets in Iraq?

"People elected a new government, a new leadership, and yet it seems that the system of Iraq's government, the new system post-2003, post-Saddam Hussein, is failing," expert Bilal Wahab told Euronews.

3 October 2019

Iraq

Is this Iraqi General behind Iraq's wave of protests?

Who is Iraqi Special Forces general Abdul Wahab Al Saadi?

3 October 2019

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French activists stage stunt at Saudi consulate over Khashoggi killing

Two-dozen Reporters Without Borders (RSF) activists dropped dismembered mannequins outside the Saudi Arabian consulate in France. It was to mark a year since the killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2, 2018.

1 October 2019