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3/30/2023 10:16:58 PM
Thousands rallied Thursday across Israel and the Palestinian territories for Land Day, commemorating a deadly crackdown in 1976 on protests against Israeli plans to seize land owned by Arab citizens.
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International
3/13/2023 1:26:13 PM
Iran announced Monday that the country's supreme leader has pardoned 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic.
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Region
3/1/2023 4:24:06 PM
Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel's hard-line security minister urged a tough response to what he said were "anarchists."
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Region
2/23/2023 5:09:00 PM
Meta on Thursday said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram despite government efforts to block the service due to months-long protests.
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Sports
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World
2/12/2023 10:00:41 PM
The Premier League said clamping down on supporters chanting about tragic incidents is a priority after both Leeds and Manchester United fans taunted their rivals on Sunday.
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International
2/8/2023 6:56:49 PM
European bishops on Wednesday demanded the immediate release of Nicaraguan clergy detained in the government's crackdown on the Catholic Church, saying they have been falsely accused and are being subjected to unjust persecution.
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Region
2/5/2023 3:37:23 PM
Iran's supreme leader on Sunday reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for "tens of thousands'' of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests shaking the country, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the crackdown.
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Region
2/3/2023 7:29:48 PM
Iranian security forces have been systematically targeting the eyes of demonstrators in their crackdown on the protests that have swept the country since September, a human rights group said Friday.
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War in Ukraine
1/24/2023 12:03:46 PM
The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office quit Tuesday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged to launch a staff shake-up amid high-level corruption allegations during the war with Russia.
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Region
1/23/2023 3:25:02 PM
The EU on Monday placed 37 more Iranian officials and entities on an asset-freeze and visa-ban blacklist over Tehran's bloody crackdown on protesters, officials said.
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Region
1/23/2023 10:51:21 AM
Despite a slackening of street activity in the face of a brutal crackdown, Iranian protesters are still challenging the Islamic regime four months into their movement, observers say.
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World
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Africa
1/21/2023 2:48:27 PM
Chad has lifted the suspension of political activities by several opposition parties imposed following a violent crackdown on demonstrations three months ago, a government official told AFP on Saturday.
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World
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Region
1/20/2023 5:49:26 PM
The EU will impose new sanctions on 37 Iranian officials and organisations over the crackdown on protests, but is still debating listing the Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist" group, diplomats said Friday.
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International
1/14/2023 10:08:39 PM
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday authorized adding former President Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation's capital, as part of a broader crackdown to hold responsible parties to account.
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International
1/9/2023 5:24:12 PM
Brazilian authorities vowed Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation’s highest seats of power in chaos with striking similarities to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
1/4/2023 4:56:23 PM
Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests, local reports said.
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World
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Region
12/28/2022 5:55:48 PM
Italy's foreign minister on Wednesday summoned Iran's new ambassador to Rome to express his country's concerns over the Iranian authorities' crackdown on anti-government protests that have been underway for over three months.
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World
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Region
12/28/2022 11:11:03 AM
More than 100 days of protests in Iran have shattered taboos and shaken the ideological pillars of the Islamic republic in a push for change that has defied a fierce crackdown.
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World
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International
12/21/2022 12:57:35 PM
The Taliban have slowly returned to their hardline position against the education of women and their freedoms since their return to power in Afghanistan 16 months ago.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/19/2022 11:10:30 PM
The United Nations chief expressed strong hopes Monday that the Ukraine war will end in 2023 and on other global hotspots condemned the Iranian government's crackdown on demonstrators, urged all countries to fight terrorist threats from the extreme right and called on the international community to tell Israel's new right-wing government that "there is no alternative to the two-state solution.''
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