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World
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International
6/11/2025 10:29:24 PM
Downtown Los Angeles was largely calm overnight into Wednesday, with police arresting at least 25 people for violating a curfew after a fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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World
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International
6/11/2025 10:15:19 AM
Los Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew Tuesday night, making arrests moments after it took effect, while deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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World
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Region
6/3/2025 9:17:00 AM
More than a million Muslim pilgrims poured into the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual hajj, with authorities vowing to hold a safer pilgrimage amid searing desert heat and a massive crackdown on illegal visitors.
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World
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International
5/17/2025 5:53:59 PM
Colombia's government has applied to join a China-based development bank, another sign of Latin America's drift away from the U.S. as the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts, trade barriers and crackdown on immigration spurs many leaders in the region to seek closer ties with Washington's geopolitical rival.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/10/2025 10:56:31 AM
A US judge on Friday ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by federal agents as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism.
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World
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International
4/28/2025 12:14:40 PM
India launched a sweeping crackdown on social media on Monday, banning more than a dozen Pakistani YouTube channels for allegedly spreading "provocative" content following an attack in Kashmir.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/10/2025 9:15:20 PM
Israeli occupation forces continued their crackdown in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, demolishing several homes and detaining more than a dozen Palestinians.
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World
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Region
3/28/2025 6:14:25 PM
Two journalists were detained in dawn raids in Istanbul early Friday as part of a crackdown on media workers covering Turkey’s largest protests in more than a decade, their outlets reported.
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World
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Region
3/26/2025 1:01:12 PM
Almost 1,500 people have been detained -- including an AFP photographer -- as tens of thousands continued protests in Istanbul Tuesday after the arrest of the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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World
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Region
3/24/2025 3:34:43 PM
Turkish authorities detained several journalists from their homes, a media workers’ union said Monday, calling it a crackdown amid growing protests triggered by the jailing of Istanbul's mayor, a top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
3/11/2025 10:05:45 PM
Following the recent crackdown on the FBC platform, Egyptian security forces have dismantled three organized crime networks operating fraudulent online investment platforms as part of ongoing efforts to combat online fraud.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/24/2025 10:18:00 PM
The European Union on Monday pushed Israel over its crackdown in the West Bank and the fragile ceasefire in Gaza at a meeting with the country's foreign minister in Brussels.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/19/2025 10:06:38 AM
By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the 1967 Mideast war.
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World
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Region
2/11/2025 11:18:08 AM
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 10 senior officials of district municipalities in Istanbul over their alleged links to Kurdish militants, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, widening a crackdown on opposition-held districts in the city.
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World
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International
2/8/2025 2:49:14 PM
President Donald Trump on Friday revoked his predecessor Joe Biden's security clearance in a blizzard of new orders, while escalating his campaign to dismantle the US humanitarian agency charged with helping the world's poorest and extending American influence around the globe.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/5/2025 12:46:56 PM
A romantic drama about an elderly couple who share a night together to escape their loneliness has landed its Iranian directors with legal charges and pressure to stop its release internationally.
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World
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Africa
1/29/2025 1:31:39 PM
Ethiopia is waging an "escalating crackdown" on civil society, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, denouncing the suspension of two independent human rights groups in recent weeks.
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World
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Region
1/23/2025 8:13:43 PM
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an independent humanitarian organization, has raised alarms over a significant Israeli escalation of violence in the occupied West Bank, calling for measures to protect Palestinian civilians and ensure unimpeded humanitarian assistance.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/11/2025 9:39:23 PM
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) said Hamas has no right to "reproduce its adventures in the West Bank," accusing the group of "aligning with Iran and other regional powers" while giving Israel justification for "the largest war of extermination" in Gaza.
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World
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International
11/28/2024 2:47:35 PM
Australian lawmakers passed landmark rules to ban under 16s from social media on Thursday, approving one of the world's toughest crackdowns on popular sites like Facebook, Instagram and X.
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