Tag Archives: protests and demonstrations

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Istanbul, London and New York CNN  —  The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail. The …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The mother of an activist fatally shot by law enforcement in Atlanta earlier this week said she feels angry and powerless as protests over the shooting erupted Saturday. See video from the scene of ‘Cop City’ protest in Atlanta The activist – 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Six people were arrested Saturday evening in downtown Atlanta, authorities said, during protests that came in response to a proposed police training facility and the fatal police shooting of an activist earlier in the week. The protesters marched in a “peaceful manner” Saturday evening down a central …

[ad_1] Reuters  —  Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday that a planned visit by his Swedish counterpart to Ankara has been canceled after Swedish authorities granted permission for protests in Stockholm. The demonstrations planned in Stockholm for later on Saturday were aimed at Turkey and Sweden’s efforts to …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress charges brought against former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by German police at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the west German village of Lützerath, CNN affiliate N-TV reports. Thunberg joined thousands of other activists and protesters taking part in weekend demonstrations against the razing …

[ad_1] London CNN  —  The British government wants to hand new powers to police that would allow officers to take stronger action against people engaging in peaceful, political protest.  Human rights activists have accused the government of trying to suppress freedom of speech, while opposition politicians claim that Downing Street is simply trying to …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system. Despite pouring rain over the city, police estimated that more than 80,000 people flooded central Tel Aviv’s HaBima square and …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A sea of people, draped in the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag, surge onto the roof of the country’s modernist congressional building in the capital Brasilia, a video shared on social media shows. In the foreground, officers from the military police of Brazil’s Federal District, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A new Covid-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States. In December 2022, the proportion of new Covid-19 infections due to this Omicron offshoot have increased from 4% to 18%, according to a January 6 release from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, …