Some 200 Myanmarese expats and local Thai activists gathered for a spontaneous protest outside Myanmar’s embassy, the Bangkok Post reported, citing police. They held flags of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), whose leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the military on Monday, as well as photos of Suu …
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In one clip, an officer can be seen drawing his service pistol after being punched and kicked by demonstrators, who were chasing a small group of policemen down a street just off Sennaya Square in St. Petersburg. The unverified video, published by the opposition-leaning Fontanka news site, has been shared …
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The story of the American video game retailer went viral after a group of Reddit users launched a flash-mob, gobbling up the firm’s shares. The campaign resulted in GameStop’s stock price growing over 1,800 percent. The move washed billions of dollars out of the biggest hedge funds, which were short-selling …
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Protesters in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem hurled rocks at moving vehicles and created street barricades using garbage dumpsters during Tuesday’s unrest, according to local media. Police are said to have deployed a water cannon to disperse the crowd, and made several arrests. Footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows several fires …
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On Sunday morning, hundreds of Orthodox believers gathered to defend the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Mea Shearim, a Haredi stronghold in the city. Religious schools that teach the Talmud and the Torah sacred texts are scheduled to open for in-person studies this week, which contradicts the restrictions by the …
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A video from Ruptly shows a crowd trying to stop the officers from dragging a detained protester to a police bus. Several men punched an officer in the head. Some officers lost their headgear in the struggle, and other torn off items of uniforms were seen lying on the pavement. …
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Opining in the Washington Post on Saturday, New York University’s Cristina Beltran invented a new phenomenon, “multiracial whiteness,” to get around the uncomfortable fact that people of various skin colors can have sincere and legitimate political beliefs differing from her own. In Beltran’s book, good whites vote for “multiculturalism,” and …
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The group of left-wing protesters gathered at the Frankfurt Gate in Berlin’s borough of Friedrichshain on Sunday morning, as part of an annual ceremony honoring Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered by right-wing paramilitaries in 1919. With many waving red hammer-and-sickle flags, the demonstrators then marched to Friedrichsfelde …
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Crowds of protesters, some of them shouting “This is American Plaza” were filmed pushing and shoving police in BLM Plaza next to Lafayette Square. The stretch of 16th Street NW was renamed last year after a huge “Black Lives Matter” slogan was painted there amid the nationwide protests against racism …
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The viral video was reportedly shot in Stoke Newington, north London and shows the cyclist ploughing into the side of a delivery van which cut right in front of him at high speed. It’s understood the rider was bruised but not badly hurt, despite being sideswiped and slamming spread-eagled to …
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