Poland's parliament overwhelmingly rejected plans for a near-total ban on abortion on Thursday after mass protests by tens of thousands of women, marking an embarrassing setback...
A second night of mostly peaceful protests over the fatal police shooting in Southern California of an unarmed black man said to be mentally ill climaxed on Wednesday ...
Protests erupted in India's southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on Monday over court orders on sharing of water from the disputed Cauvery river.
Protests took place on Sunday in Manila over Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's plans to honour the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos with a state burial.
A Chinese city has suspended preliminary work on a proposed 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) nuclear waste processing plant following protests by local residents concerned about health risks.
Authorities sought to learn more about a decorated ex-US Marine sergeant who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, some two weeks after police there shot dead a black man.
Three police officers were shot to death and several others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, the city's mayor said, as the country remained on edge in the wake of police shootings of black men and the killings of five Dallas officers.
Indian-controlled Kashmir imposed a curfew and blocked mobile phone services to stop people from gathering in the streets and stage violent protests over the killing of a young separatist commander by security forces.
The Dallas gunman was plotting a major bomb attack, authorities said on Sunday, urging calm as hundreds of people were arrested in weekend protests in US cities over police violence against African-Americans.
Twenty-six people were hurt and authorities made 15 arrests on Tuesday as protests in Paris over disputed labour reforms descended into violent clashes between riot police and masked troublemakers.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens yesterday as Greece’s parliament prepared ....
Protests by an Indian caste demanding the release of one of its leaders turned violent on Sunday, as police fought running street battles with stone-throwing demonstrators and detained hundreds.
