Student protests against fee increases turned violent on Wednesday as several universities suspended academic activities.
A Brazilian federal court on Monday maintained that political protests can be held outside Rio 2016 Olympic venues, denying a complaint by the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee.
Police and media organizations are calling for rational patriotism after sporadic protests against the United States broke out across China in the past few days triggered by the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague's illegal ruling on the South China Sea issue.
Police and media organizations are calling for rational patriotism after sporadic protests against the United States broke out across China in the past few days triggered by the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague's illegal ruling on the South China Sea issue.
South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande on Monday urged university students to end protests and return to class.
Members of a rural Indian caste reached a deal late yesterday to end protests that paralysed the North Indian state of Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, a protest leader and a police source said.
Disgruntled Brazilians took to the streets Sunday to express their discontent with a poor economy and corrupt officials, but not in a massive number the government had feared.
There has been a 96 percent increase in social protests in South Africa since 2010, a report by a Britain-based think tank has shown.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday accused Kem Sokha, vice-president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), of leading post- election protests in 2013 in a plot to topple the government.
At least 16 people were killed in Egypt as hundreds of protestors loyal to ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi clashed with police in protests on Sunday.
Lawmakers of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) approved on Sunday a new electoral law stripped of a provision that tied a census to 2016 general elections and triggered deadly protests.
President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday struck a conciliatory tone following post-election protests by the political opposition.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday in absentia prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to 15 years in jail on charges of protesting without state permission, state-run Ahram website reported.
On the day when nationwide anti-China protests had been expected to burst in Vietnam, local residents spent just another quiet weekend as usual but under tightened security both on the streets and on the Internet.
Cambodian security forces fired smoke bombs to disperse protesters in the capital Monday morning, national military police spokesman Kheng Tito said.
Egypt's National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, a pro-ousted president Mohamed Morsi coalition, called for 18 days of protests as of Friday to mark the fourth anniversary of the January 25 uprising that removed president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The Cambodian opposition party' s daily protests have been destroying the country's economy and causing social instability, Dr. Ros Chantraboth, advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, said Monday.
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