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03/07/2023

Young rioters clashed with police into early Sunday and targeted a mayor's home with a burning car as France saw a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of a teenager, but overall violence appeared to lessen compared with previous nights.

The Interior Ministry said early Sunday that 719 people were arrested, 45 police and other gendarmes were injured, 577 vehicles and 74 buildings were set on fire and 871 fires were recorded on public roads.

Amid the rioting, French President Emmanuel Macron postponed what would have been the first state visit to Germany by a French president in 23 years.

01/07/2023

The fatal shooting of a French teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent by a police officer has set off days of violent protests that have rocked France.

From Nanterre, the working class Paris suburb where the teenager was shot, to the northern city of Lille and the Mediterranean city of Marseille, demonstrators have burned cars, damaged buildings and bus shelters over three nights of clashes with the authorities.

Here is how the events have unfolded.

Clashes between protesters and police continued in cities across France. “We don’t forget, we don’t forgive,” crowds chanted.

30/06/2023

NANTERRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is urging parents to keep teenagers at home to quell rioting spreading across France and says social media are fueling copycat violence.

French protesters erected barricades, lit fires and clashed with police in the streets of some French cities as tensions mounted over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old.

07/04/2023

Protesters in Paris have attacked one of French President Emmanuel Macron's favourite restaurants, as tensions over controversial pension reforms continue.

Riot police had to form a barricade around La Rotonde bistro, which was briefly set on fire.

Thursday was the 11th day of unrest since January, over legislation raising the retirement age by two years, from 62 to 64.

The country awaits a decision on the validity of the legislation next week.

Riot police defend La Rotonde brasserie in Paris, on the 11th day of unrest over pension reform.

03/04/2023

A stampede at a Ramadan food distribution centre in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi has killed at least 11 people, all women and children, according to police and rescue officials.

Several people were also injured in Friday’s incident, which happened when hundreds of people panicked and started pushing each other to collect food outside a factory. Some of them fell into a nearby drain, police official Mughees Hashmi said.

Residents said a wall also collapsed near the drain, injuring and killing people amid the stampede.

Women and children die when people panic and push each other to collect food in Karachi, officials say.

01/04/2023

PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron's drive to ram through legislation raising France's retirement age despite mass protests is creating rifts between ministers and his allies amid frustration that the government has not resolved the standoff, insiders say.

Ministers and lawmakers are trading blame for the failure to build broader support for Macron's flagship policy, and some members of his own party are uneasy with his move to use executive powers to push the bill through parliament.

President Emmanuel Macron's drive to ram through legislation raising France's retirement age despite mass protests is creating rifts between ministers and his allies amid frustration that the government has not resolved the standoff, insiders say.

28/03/2023

BERLIN, March 27 (Reuters) - Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions of people during one of the largest walkouts in decades in Europe's biggest economy as soaring inflation stokes wage demands.

The 24-hour "warning" strikes called by the Verdi union and railway and transport union EVG were the latest in months of industrial action which has hit major European economies as higher food and energy prices dent living standards.

Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions of people during one of the largest walkouts in decades as soaring inflation stokes wage demands.

27/03/2023

Jerusalem(CNN)Massive crowds filled the streets of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv late Sunday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister over his opposition to a planned judicial overhaul.

Waving Israeli flags and chanting "democratia," protestors could be seen blocking streets and bridges, including the Ayalon Highway.

Protesters lit several fires on the main highway in Tel Aviv, their acrid, black smoke billowing into the sky, partly obscuring some of the city's iconic skyscrapers. By around 2 a.m. local time in Tel Aviv, protests had thinned out but live pictures from the scene showed security forces firing water cannons on those still gathered.

Massive crowds filled the streets of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv late Sunday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister over his opposition to a planned judicial overhaul.

18/03/2023

Paris (CNN) At least 310 people have been detained across France as the embattled government faces backlash for forcing through pension reforms that will see the country's retirement age raised by two years.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told French radio RTL that most of the arrests made on Thursday night -- 258 -- were in Paris. Although calm had returned to the capital's streets by Friday morning, government ministers were on the defensive following Thursday night's impromptu protests.

At least 310 people have been detained across France as the embattled government faces backlash for forcing through pension reforms that will see the country's retirement age raised by two years.

12/03/2023

ATHENS, March 8 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country's deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people last week.

The crash on Feb. 28 has stirred public outrage over the crumbling state of the rail network. Striking workers say years of neglect, underinvestment and understaffing - a legacy of Greece's decade-long debt crisis - are to blame.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country's deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people last week.

12/03/2023

Jerusalem(CNN)Half a million Israelis took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country's judicial system, organizers claimed.

Israel has a population of just over 9 million, so if organizers' estimates are correct, about 5% of Israelis came out to voice their opposition to the proposed reforms.

Nearly half of the protesters -- about 240,000 -- gathered in Tel Aviv, the organizers said. In Jerusalem, several hundred demonstrators gathered in front of President Isaac Herzog's house. They carried Israeli flags and chanted slogans including "Israel will not be a dictatorship."

About 5% of the country's population took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country's judicial system, organizers claimed.

08/03/2023

Manila, Philippines – Some 100,000 jeepney drivers in the Philippines have ended a strike over government plans to phase out one of the country’s most ubiquitous but polluting forms of public transport amid hopes the initiative will be changed.

President instructs agencies to reconsider proposals amid concerns about the effect on drivers’ livelihoods.

08/03/2023

Protesters have clashed with police in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, after parliament backed a controversial draft law which critics say limits press freedom and suppresses civil society.

Riot police used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse the crowds outside the parliament building.

Some protesters were seen falling on the ground and coughing, while others waved EU and Georgian flags.

Police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters who say the new draft law limits press freedom.

08/03/2023

Striking drivers have accused Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr of forgetting his election promise to them as the government moves to scrap all of the country’s iconic “jeepneys” in a modernisation exercise that leaves the operators bearing most of the costs.

Transport groups have accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr of forgetting his election pledge to prevent a ‘total phase-out’ of the iconic vehicles.

05/03/2023

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 4) – A teachers’ group has slammed the Department of Education’s (DepEd) decision not to suspend physical classes amid the looming transport strike next week, citing the difficulties awaiting the students and teachers who are commuting.

In a statement on Friday, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) chairperson Vladimer Quetua said the DepEd's recent move “proves its insensitivity and obliviousness.”

A teachers’ group has slammed the Department of Education’s decision not to suspend physical classes amid the looming transport strike next week, citing the difficulties awaiting the students and teachers who are commuting.

05/03/2023

Manila: Filipino drivers of traditional “jeepneys” are staging a transport strike from March 6, 2023, a group that claims 40,000 driver-members said.

The protest action is being spearheaded by the group Manibela. Their call: Stop the government’s plan to “phase out” old transport Public Utility Jeepneys (PUJs) by June 30, 2023.

Group representing 40,000 ‘jeepney’ transport drivers to hold transport strike next week

16/02/2023

WUHAN, China — Thousands of retirees confronted local officials and the police outside a popular park in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to demand the repeal of recent cuts in government-provided medical insurance for seniors.

The protest in Wuhan highlights the strain on the finances of local governments, made worse by heavy spending on “zero Covid” measures.

16/02/2023

Hundreds of retirees have taken to the streets of the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Dalian to protest against cuts to medical benefits, following rare demonstrations in November that led to the end of China’s controversial “zero-COVID” policy.

Hundreds of elderly people marched in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian despite heavy security presence.

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