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Tens of thousands of people have protested in Jerusalem, calling for immediate elections and an end to the war in Gaza. Israeli police said nine protesters were arrested. Many Israelis, anguished over the hostages still held in Gaza and the ongoing war, accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting political interests ahead of all else. They accuse the government of having lost control of the 8-month-old war and demand a deal to stop the fighting and return the hostages. Netanyahu denies the accusations and says he has the country’s best interests in mind. On Monday Netanyahu dissolved t...
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After an all-night voting marathon, Argentina's Senate approved President Javier Milei 's sweeping proposals to slash spending and boost his own powers, as thousands of protesters clashed with police outside the building. Senators voted 37 to 36 to give provisional approval to the two bills while thousands of protesters poured into the streets, burning cars and throwing Molotov cocktails as hundreds of federal security forces pushed back with rounds of tear gas and water cannons. The vote — which was decided by a tiebreaker from Vice President Victoria Villarruel — delivered a major boost to M...
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The first official portrait of King Charles III has been vandalized by a group of British animal rights activists. Activists from Animal Rising, a non-violent organization campaigning for an “urgent transition to a sustainable and just plant-based food system”, pasted posters of the Wallace and Gromit animation film series on the painting of the monarch. They said they had “redecorated” the portrait by Jonathan Yeo in the Philip Mould Gallery in London, which was unveiled last month. It is the first since his coronation, and drew mixed reactions when it was presented. The sovereign's face was ...
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Farmers took to the streets in Brussels on Monday, demanding a law banning the sale of dairy products at a price below production costs. Demonstrators, with fake cows painted in the colours of the European flag, marched between the headquarters of the European Parliament and the Commission in the Belgian capital. Kjartan Poulsen, president of the European Milk Board, told Euronews that protesters wanted an EU-wide version of a Spanish law on "unfair commercial practices", which forbids selling "products below cost at all stages of the purchasing chain." He said production costs vary from count...
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The law on “transparency of foreign influence” passed in Parliament of Georgia on 14th May despite weeks of almost daily demonstrations, continues to cause a public outcry. Opponents to the law say it is inspired by Moscow, and could compromise the country’s European destiny. “This law is against democracy, it is against human rights”, says Mamuka Kotetishvili a scientist, standing with his family in front of the Georgian Parliament among several thousand protesters. “It will affect not only the governance instances, but all fields of activity in Georgia, from the health system to the agricult...
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged Thursday the removal of protesters' barricades in riot-hit New Caledonia. He also announced he would send police forces to help battle deadly unrest in the French Pacific archipelago. The gendarmes “will stay as long as necessary," even as French security services focus on safeguarding the Paris Olympics in coming weeks, Macron said. Pro-independence Indigenous Kanak leaders, who declined Macron's offer of talks by video a week earlier, greeted him in person on Thursday. They also joined a meeting in Nouméa with rival pro-Paris leaders who want New Caledo...
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University and school students in Georgia have been driving protests against the country's divisive "foreign influence" law, which critics see it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The proposed law, passed by the parliament earlier this month, requires media and nongovernmental organisations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
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Tens of thousands of people, including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, marched through Tbilisi on Friday to celebrate the Day of Family Purity, a holiday established by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2013 to promote traditional family values. The march, coinciding with the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, highlighted the country's deep divisions over LGBTQ+ rights. Participants in the procession carried icons and wore traditional costumes as they made their way to the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Family Purity and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoricPrime Minister Kobakhidze and ...
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Pro-Palestinian protests escalate in European universities, with Turin Polytechnic University and the University of Amsterdam witnessing student-led encampments. Demonstrators demand academic boycotts of Israeli institutions amid the ongoing Gaza conflict. Similar actions spread across Italian and Dutch campuses, echoing protests in the United States. The demonstrations condemn Israeli military operations in response to Hamas attacks, resulting in substantial casualties. University staff and students call for shared governance and severed ties with Israel. The wave of protests underscores glob...
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In an escalation of their ongoing grievances, farmers from the Polish Farmers’ Union, Orka, staged a sit-in protest at the lower house of parliament Sejm on Thursday, claiming that their livelihoods are threatened on two fronts. “Today we want to protest against the Green Deal, against the opening of the border to products flowing into the country from Ukraine,” a union spokesperson said during a press conference. “We are not thugs or hooligans. We want to protest in a cultural way, to manifest the problems we have in agriculture." Protesters are demanding a meeting with Polish Prime Minister ...
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