Police in Istanbul have dispersed a small group of demonstrators who gathered in the Turkish city to denounce police violence and to stand in solidarity with protesters in the United States. At least 29 demonstrators were detained, Turkey’s state-run agency reported. Anadolu Agency said riot police broke up the demonstration in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district lateRead more
Hundreds of cities have imposed curfews to keep the peace during a week of violent unrest across the U.S., employing a tactic that gives law enforcement sweeping arrest powers but is frequently flouted and criticized as being unconstitutional.From New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, cities large and small have put curfews in place —Read more
After threatening states that he would dispatch the military to quell protests, President Donald Trump appeared to be privately backing off, with White House officials saying the response to demonstrations across the country indicated that local governments should be able to restore order themselves. The shift came as protests in Washington and other cities overRead more
Authorities in western India scrambled to evacuate 100,000 residents from the path of a strong and fast-moving cyclone that could strike the financial city of Mumbai. India’s Meteorological Department said Cyclone Nisarga, with winds over 100 kilometers per hour, made landfall Wednesday near the coastal city of Alibag, located 90 kilometers south of Mumbai. About 1,000Read more
Three days after George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer choking off his air, another black man writhed on the tarmac of a street in Paris as a police officer pressed a knee to his neck during an arrest. Immobilization techniques where officers apply pressure with their knees on prone suspects are used in policing around theRead more
Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off demonstrations that at times brought violence and destruction along with pleas to stop police brutality and injustice against African Americans. There were scattered reports of looting in New York City overnight, andRead more
French police fired tear gas early on Wednesday to disperse protesters marking the 2016 death of a black man in a police operation that some have likened to the death of George Floyd in the United States. Reuters reporters saw police use tear gas after some of the protesters started fires and set up barricades around the Avenue de Clichy in northern Paris, whichRead more
Thousands of furloughed South Korean workers could soon return to their jobs on U.S. military bases in South Korea under the terms of a deal announced by the Pentagon. In a statement late Tuesday, the Defense Department said it has accepted South Korea’s offer to fund labor costs for all Korean national employees on U.S. basesRead more
The mother of George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter struggled to hold back tears Tuesday as she described Floyd as a devoted father and family man. Floyd, an African American man, died last week after his arrest in Minneapolis on suspicion of counterfeiting. A white police officer kneeled on the handcuffed Floyd’s neck for more than 8 minutes. His death has sparked outrage with complaintsRead more
The daughter of an Iranian scientist who had been under U.S. prosecution or detention since 2016 says U.S. authorities have deported her father, a move that U.S. and Iranian officials said is not part of another prisoner swap between the two longtime enemies.In a Monday post on her “Free Professor Sirous Asgari” Facebook group created in March,Read more
A Confederate soldiers’ monument that stood in Birmingham, Alabama, for more than 100 years is no more.Construction workers Tuesday dismantled the last piece of the five-story structure after Mayor Randall Woodfin ordered it gone.The mayor acted Sunday after a group of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis threatened to tear down theRead more
An advocacy group backed by the tech industry filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s executive order on social media, as U.S. technology companies have been fighting White House efforts to weaken a law that protects them. The Washington-based Center for Democracy & Technology said in its lawsuit that Trump’s executive order violates theRead more