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3/23/2023 10:56:44 AM
Israel's parliament on Thursday passed the first of several laws that make up its contentious judicial overhaul as protesters opposing the changes staged another day of demonstrations aimed at ringing an alarm over what they see as the country's descent toward autocracy.
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3/17/2023 7:36:56 PM
France, where President Emmanuel Macron is facing intensified protests after forcing a contentious pension reform through parliament without a vote, is no stranger to mass demonstrations.
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3/16/2023 1:53:36 PM
More than 40,000 people in Greece demonstrated nationwide on Thursday to express outrage against last month's train tragedy that killed 57 people, police said, while labor unions went on a general strike grounding flights and extensively disrupting services across the country.
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3/11/2023 5:19:22 PM
Thousands of farmers and other demonstrators are protesting in a park in The Hague against Dutch government plans to reduce nitrate emissions.
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2/28/2023 3:51:38 PM
Around a dozen demonstrators stormed a stage where Taipei's new mayor was speaking on Tuesday, calling him a murderer and demanding he apologies for the bloodshed during a 1947 massacre in Taiwan.
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2/11/2023 8:06:47 PM
Police were out in force across France on Saturday as protesters held a sometimes restive fourth round of nationwide demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform the country's pension system.
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1/31/2023 12:55:50 PM
France woke up to a day of paralysis Tuesday with transport blockages, mass strikes and demonstrations hitting the country for the second time in a month to protest a planned reform to raise the retirement age.
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1/29/2023 12:47:17 PM
Turkey issued a travel warning late Saturday for its citizens living in or planning on going to European countries, citing Islamophobia and anti-Turkish demonstrations.
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1/28/2023 8:23:13 PM
The shocking death of Tyre Nichols after a police beating has reopened anguished debate across the United States about police violence, fueling a sense that the huge, nationwide demonstrations of 2020 have done little to solve the problem.
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1/21/2023 6:18:55 PM
Thousands of people protested in Madrid Saturday against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's leftist government in a rally held in a key election year in Spain that was backed by far-right party Vox.
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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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1/14/2023 9:40:02 PM
Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned moves to demolish a German village to make way for a coal mine expansion as police clashed with demonstrators at the site on Saturday.
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1/11/2023 8:39:39 PM
Brazil's capital prepared for the possibility of more violent demonstrations Wednesday by people seeking to overturn the presidential election, with local security officials blocking access to buildings trashed four days earlier by a horde of rioters.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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1/10/2023 10:18:43 PM
Tunisia is facing continuing political and economic instability with the country’s opposition parties calling for demonstrations and unions calling for a series of strikes,
reports Karam Said
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1/10/2023 11:42:50 AM
Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations "demanding greater respect for the dignity of women.''
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War in Ukraine
1/7/2023 6:08:03 PM
Packing Kyiv's 1,000-year-old Lavra Cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in that church in the Ukrainian language for the first time in decades, a demonstration of independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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1/3/2023 9:54:55 PM
Will the Iranian regime continue to react with the violence and intransigence that has marked its response to last year’s demonstrations, asks Manal Lotfy
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World Cup 2022
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12/16/2022 6:06:07 PM
Argentina fans staged a second day of demonstrations Friday outside a Doha hotel demanding that their country's national federation help them to get tickets for the World Cup final.
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12/9/2022 5:48:11 PM
Iran faced international condemnation Friday after carrying out its first known execution over protests that have shaken the regime for nearly three months, leading to calls for even more demonstrations.
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12/4/2022 5:31:21 PM
A protester and a policeman were killed Sunday in Syria's southern city of Sweida as security forces cracked down on a rare demonstration by hundreds against deteriorating living conditions.
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