Nepal lifts ban on social media platforms after protests where police killed 19 people
The Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak also resigned late Monday at an emergency Cabinet meeting called by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli
KATMANDU : Nepal’s government...
Washington DC residents protest against Trump’s troop deployment to the city
Protesters at the “We Are All D.C.” march, who included undocumented immigrants and supporters of Palestine, chanted slogans denouncing Trump
WASHINGTON : Several thousand Washington...
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh demand safe return to Myanmar on 8th anniversary of exodus
“We want to go back to our country with equal rights like other ethnic groups in Myanmar,” one of the protesters, 19-year-old Nur Aziz, told The Associated Press
Proactive Policing: Pakistan Moves to Maintain Peace as PTI Protest Looms
Most of the detentions, made on Monday night and early on Tuesday, were in the eastern city of Lahore, two police officers said
Lahore is the capital...
Ukraine’s Zelensky says ‘listened’ to protesters on anti-graft law
The adoption of the bill, which curbed the powers of two anti-graft bodies, triggered the biggest public protests in Ukraine
Ukrainian leader acknowledged there should ‘probably have...
Australia’s Parliament resumes with pro-Palestinian protests and calls for Israel sanctions
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Parliament House on Tuesday
Calls for government to impose sanctions on Israel after Australia joined another 27 countries in issuing a...
Bangladesh’s Islamist party projects force with a big rally in Dhaka
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said the next election would be held in April
Jamaat-e-Islami said earlier it would mobilize 1...
Nationwide protests begin against Trump’s immigration crackdown and health care cuts
Protest actions held Thursday in more than 1,600 locations around the country
Major protests planned in Atlanta and St. Louis, Oakland in California, and Annapolis in Maryland
Bangladeshi forces clash with supporters of ousted leader Hasina, leaving at least 4 dead
Bangladeshi security forces have clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four dead and scores of people injured
The violence erupted on...
Indian workers go on a daylong nationwide strike against Modi’s economic reforms
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of thousands of workers across India went on a nationwide strike on Wednesday in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to privatize state-run companies and other economic reforms, partially disrupting...