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Four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin at the weekend, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday. A total of 49 police officers were also deprived of their liberty during the demonstration on Saturday, she added, noting that 39 criminal proceedings against demonstrators were initiated. At the rally in the districts of Neukölln and Kreuzberg, which was attended by around 1,500 people at its peak, participants repeatedly chanted pro-Palestinian slogans. Police said what they described as an anti-Semitic statement was also shouted loudly over a loudspeaker va...
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Hours before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have demanded Finnish broadcaster Yle boycott the show on Saturday. Some 40 people gathered in the broadcaster's lobby, holding up protest posters and Palestinian flags, Yle reported. An Israeli contestant, Eden Golan, has reached the semifinals but there has been increasing controversy about the inclusion of Israel in the contest as the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens. Demonstrator Wilhelm Blomberg told Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper that they would not prevent Yle's employees from doing their work, but w...
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Staff at VRT, the main public service broadcaster for Belgium's Flemish community, interrupted footage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday to display a message protesting Israel's military action in the Gaza strip. "This is a union action. We condemn human rights violations by the state of Israel," the message at the beginning and end of the broadcast read. "Furthermore, the state of Israel is destroying freedom of the press. That's why we're now briefly interrupting the image." The message concluded with the social media hashtags "#CeasfireNow" and "#StopGenocide." Israel la...
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Staff at VRT, the main public service broadcaster for Belgium's Flemish community, interrupted footage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday to display a message protesting Israel's military action in the Gaza strip. "This is a union action. We condemn human rights violations by the state of Israel," the message at the beginning and end of the broadcast read. "Furthermore, the state of Israel is destroying freedom of the press. That's why we're now briefly interrupting the image." The message concluded with the social media hashtags "#CeasfireNow" and "#StopGenocide." Israel la...
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Argentinian trade union federation CGT brought public transport and air traffic to a standstill on Thursday in a nationwide general strike protesting against the austerity policies of libertarian President Javier Milei. With employees unable to reach their workplaces, many shops remained closed. The strike affected banks, supermarkets, schools, universities, transport, waste collection and the postal services. The government criticized the second general strike in five months. "They should stop being annoying and start working," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, calling the industrial ...
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The major trade unions in Argentina have called for a general strike on Thursday, for the second time in just five months. With the strike they want to protest against the harsh austerity policy of the ultra-liberal President Javier Milei. Trains, buses, underground trains and planes are expected to be at a standstill for 24 hours. Argentina is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. The inflation rate is over 280% and the country is heading for recession. South America's second-largest economy is suffering from a bloated state apparatus, low industrial productivity and a large shadow econom...
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A pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of George Washington University in the US capital was cleared by police early Wednesday. Pamela Smith, the chief of police in Washington, said officers arrested 33 people who ignored six "dispersal announcements," but that most of the protesters had followed orders to leave the site. "They begin very peacefully. But over the past few days we begin to see an escalation in the volatility of the protest," Smith said at a press conference. The protest at George Washington University began on April 25. Recently there had been more confrontations be...
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German police are evicting pro-Palestinian activists after they occupied the main lecture hall at Leipzig University in the east of the country. Leipzig University has decided in favour of an eviction and has informed the police, the university announced on Tuesday evening. The police operation is currently under way. "We will not tolerate the violent disruption of teaching activities and the seizure of university premises," the statement said. The decision to evacuate was unavoidable, as there was an imminent danger to the safety of all students and lecturers, it added. According to the unive...
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German police were clearing pro-Palestinian activists on Tuesday evening after they occupied the main lecture hall at Leipzig University in the east of the country. Leipzig University had decided in favour of an eviction and had informed the police, the university announced in the evening, adding that the police operation was currently under way. "We will not tolerate the violent disruption of teaching activities and the seizure of university premises," the statement said. The decision to clear the protesters was unavoidable, as there was an imminent danger to the safety of all students and le...
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German police have broken up a pro-Palestinian student protest which was set up early Tuesday at Berlin's Free University. Around 150 activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group occupied the university courtyard with tents on Tuesday morning in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group had said they were "occupying Freie Universität Berlin," called for the occupation of other German universities and demanded an end to "colonial oppression." The university had announced it would swiftly put a halt to the protest and called the police...
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