After weeks of protests and weeks of debate in Parliament, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne yesterday announced that President Macron was invoking Article 49.3 of the French constitution in order to pass the Pension Reform Bill, which allows the government to force a bill through without a vote from...
Tens of thousands gathered to defend the village of Lützerath over the weekend in an attempt to stop the expansion of the nearby Garzweiler coal mine. Among them was Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who joined the demonstrations on Friday as protestors marched through nearby villages an attempted to...
On December 10th, at around 6 p.m., 200 environmental activists suddenly stormed and "invaded" a Lafarge company cement factory of La Malle in Bouc-Bel-Air in the Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. Infrastructure at the plant was reportedly attacked using a variety of methods, including: sabotage of incinerators...
On Wednesday, police killed one and wounded more than 60 people in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. This occurred when the police opened fire on activists and members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who were protesting in front of their party headquarters.
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According to local media, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
In protest of payment, thousands of nurses and midwives in Western Australia have walked off their jobs and gone on strike. The majority of those on strike held a rally outside of Western Australia's parliament building. A major demand is a five percent pay raise.
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Reportedly, thousands of surgeries have...
The city of Shno (Oshnavieh) was taken by Kurdish protesters at about 1am local time on Saturday. Possibly with the help of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), Kurdish protesters have driven out police forces and secured the perimeters of the city. Some reports indicate that protesters have started freeing...