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US gears up for weekend protests amid anger at new police abuses

06 Jun 2020

The United States braced on Friday for massive weekend protests against racism and police brutality, as outrage soared over the latest law enforcement abuses against demonstrators that were caught on...

UAE volunteers deserve a hearty salute

05 Jun 2020

The UAE’s national campaign aimed at supporting volunteer efforts at the state level, harnessing the expertise, skills and talents of community members and involving them in the volunteering process has...

Recent developments show the stark difference between events of Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong uprising

05 Jun 2020

Joshua Wong, Andrea Venzon and Colombe Cahen-Salvador, The Independent Thirty-one years ago, on 4 June 1989, at 1am local time, the Chinese army moved violently against a pro-democracy, student-led...

Arrests at widespread US protests hit 10,000 as more policemen shot, wounded

04 Jun 2020

A man armed with a knife stabbed a New York policeman in the neck on Wednesday and two officers who ran to his rescue were wounded before they shot the...

Hong Kong leader accuses US of ‘double standards’ over protests

02 Jun 2020

Hong Kong's leader accused the United States on Tuesday of applying "double standards" in its response to violent protests as she warned Washington's plan to place trade restrictions on the...

Dark truth: ‘The names change but the colour is always black’

31 May 2020

At the junction where a police officer was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck as he gasped for air, there were shouts and cheers when it was announced the man...

Palestinians protest against Trump’s proposed peace plan

28 Jan 2020

Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against US President Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan on Tuesday hours before its scheduled release at a ceremony in Washington. Israeli troops meanwhile reinforced positions...

Thousands of Iraqis hold rally seeking US troops’ withdrawal

24 Jan 2020

Thousands rallied in Baghdad on Friday to demand that American troops leave the country, though their numbers fell short of the “million-man” march called for by an influential cleric. ...

No end in sight to Lebanon crisis as protests continue

17 Jan 2020

Protesters blocked several main roads across Lebanon on Friday as unprecedented demonstrations against a political elite accused of corruption and incompetence entered their fourth month. The protest movement rocking...

Decide mechanism for troop withdrawal, Iraqi PM tells US

10 Jan 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has told the US secretary of state to send a delegation to Iraq tasked with formulating the mechanism for the withdrawal of US troops from...

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