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On Thursday, scenes of unrest uploaded to Twitter showed people running frantically throughout Beirut around the Justice Palace area, with sirens blaring in the background and what sounded like several rounds of gun shots. One graphic video on the social media platform captured heavy gunfire and screaming and a seriously …

The adverts, posted last week to mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, feature a restaurant-style whiteboard offering a special dish of “Russian virgins and cocaine.” Other listings include “Katia, 17 years old,” and “Sophia, 20 years old,” for €50 each ($58). Would-be punters are also told that for an …

The protesters were seen marching in Manhattan, Staten Island and elsewhere in the city on Monday afternoon and carrying into the evening, with one reporter on the scene estimating a crowd of at least 1,000 in the former borough. Marchers were heard chanting “My body, my choice!” in footage making …

Northern Ireland-born James Brown glued his hand to an Amsterdam-bound British Airways aircraft in October 2019 as part of the group’s takeover of London City Airport, explaining at the time that he felt “compelled” to bring about “radical change”. The champion for Britain in the B3 800 metres and 1500m at …

The communists gathered in Pushkin Square to protest about the results that their party, the KPRF, garnered in last weekend’s elections. Since the demo was not authorized by the authorities, in line with coronavirus restrictions, the organizers insisted the gathering was not a proper rally, but instead merely a “meeting …

Currently in its sixth lockdown since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Melbourne has now officially become the lockdown champion – this is according to local media, which reported that the city has spent a total of 235 days in lockdown, surpassing the benchmark set by Argentina’s Buenos Aires, which …

Police in Victoria initially issued a blanket order to keep local news helicopters out of the sky over the Melbourne city center known as the CBD, according to 7 News Melbourne, which reported that it was filing a legal challenge to the rule on Wednesday along with fellow Melbourne broadcaster …

The online images are all too familiar: helmeted and masked police in body armour with batons held high, clubbing protestors lying on the ground as incapacitating pepper smoke burns their eyes and chokes their breath.  Meanwhile, mobs of rowdy protestors take over city streets, blocking traffic and disrupting the working …

Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a rally in downtown Cetinje on Sunday morning, state broadcaster RTCG reported. Protesters wanted to prevent the inauguration of Metropolitan Joanikije in a local monastery. Social Democratic Party (SDP) General Secretary Ivan Vujovic said the party’s honorary leader and former longtime …

In the build-up to her TKO win over Bec Connolly last month, Ebanie ‘Blonde Bomber’ Bridges tickled fans with a string of memes that caught promoter Eddie Hearn looking up at the ceiling and appearing to do all he could not to check her out in her underwear. Never one to …