Around 10,000 people have rallied in the capital of Bangladesh to protest against the French president and his staunch support of laws that deem caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad as protected under freedom of speech.

Hundreds of anti-coal activists have entered a mine in western Germany to protest against the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels.

Belarusian authorities have detained the organiser of a strike at a top industrial plant.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital of Belarus on Sunday, beginning a fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president after an election they call rigged gave him a sixth term in office.

A judge has agreed to delay a decision on whether a 17-year-old from Illinois should be returned to Wisconsin to face charges accusing him of shooting dead two protesters and wounding a third during a night of unrest following the police shooting of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned he stands ready to send police to Belarus if protests there turn violent.

Authorities have named the officer who shot black man Jacob Blake as protests against racial injustice were taken up by major sport leagues and prominent athletes across the US.

Police in Belarus have detained dozens of protesters who gathered in the capital’s central square in an effort to end weeks of demonstrations challenging the re-election of the country’s authoritarian ruler.

A white 17-year-old police admirer has been arrested over the killing of two people gunned down during a third night of protests in Wisconsin over the police shooting of black man Jacob Blake.

Two people were shot to death during a night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a possible vigilante attack carried out by a young white man.

Police in Belarus have detained more than 50 people across the country during protests demanding the resignation of its authoritarian leader.

Two people have died and one was injured after shots were fired in Kenosha during the third night of unrest in Wisconsin following the shooting of a black man by police.The shooting was reported at about 11.45pm in an area where protests have taken ...

A black man shot multiple times by police in the US state of Wisconsin is paralysed, and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again, his family’s lawyer has said.

The family lawyer for a black man shot by police in the US said Tuesday that Jacob Blake is paralysed and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again.

Authorities in Belarus on Tuesday cranked up the pressure on protesters pushing for the resignation of the country’s leader, jailing several opposition activists, summoning others for questioning and selectively ordering dozens of demonstrators to ...

The father of a black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son has been left paralysed from the waist down.

Anger over the shooting of a black man by police in a southeastern Wisconsin city has spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night.

Officers deployed tear gas in an effort to disperse hundreds of people who took to the streets following a police shooting in a US town.

Belarusian authorities have detained three leading opposition activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian ruler.

The authoritarian president of Belarus made a dramatic show of defiance Sunday against the massive protests demanding his resignation, toting a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest as he strode off a helicopter that landed at his residence while ...

More than 100,000 protesters demanding the resignation of Belarus’ president have gathered in a vast square in the capital, keeping up the massive outburst of dissent that has shaken the country since a disputed presidential election two weeks ago.

Belarusian authorities have opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year rule of the country’s authoritarian leader.

The authoritarian leader of Belarus has complained that encouragement from abroad has fuelled daily protests demanding his resignation.

The Belarusian opposition leader has urged European leaders not to recognise “fraudulent elections” that extended the rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and sparked unprecedented mass protests in the country.

Employees of state-controlled companies and factories have joined the strike in Belarus as pressure increased on president Alexander Lukashenko to step down.

The Belarusian ambassador to Slovakia has resigned just days after expressing support for those protesting against president Alexander Lukashenko.

The partner of a demonstrator killed during protests in Belarus has said she will push for an independent probe into his death.

Workers heckled and jeered President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday as he visited a factory and strikes grew across Belarus, raising the pressure on the leader to step down after 26 years in power.

European Council president Charles Michel has convened an emergency summit of EU leaders to discuss the presidential election in Belarus and the violence in the wake of protests against the result.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has rejected any possibility of repeating the vote that gave him a sixth term, lashing out at the West and declaring his country will “perish as a state” if the election is rerun.

Thousands of people have gathered in a square near Belarus’ main government building for a rally to support President Alexander Lukashenko.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to provide protest-engulfed Belarus with security assistance to counter protests if the country requests it, the president of Belarus said Saturday, after more people took to the streets demanding that he ...

Thousands of demonstrators in Belarus gathered at the spot in the capital where a protester died in clashes with police, calling for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to resign after 26 years in power.

Tens of thousands of people have marched across the Russian city of Khabarovsk to protest against the arrest of the regional governor on murder charges, continuing a wave of demonstrations that has lasted two weeks in a challenge to the Kremlin.

Israeli police have used water cannons to disperse protesters in central Jerusalem as clashes broke out overnight after thousands staged a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Saturday, Extinction Rebellion held a "die-in" protest on Opera Lane in Cork city centre. The protesters were demonstrating against the destructive fast fashion industry, which is a major contributor to pollution.

THERE was a palpable anger on the streets of Cork yesterday as several hundred people gathered on Patrick Street at lunchtime to protest about the handling of sexual assault cases in the Irish justice system.