Catalan president, Quim Torra, has insisted on a new independence vote for Catalonia, after he called for an end to the violent protests, which brought Barcelona to its knees over the past few days. Quim Torra calls new vote “This...
The city of Barcelona is reeling from a fresh outbreak of violence today (17. Oct) after dozens of cars were set on fire in the latest fallout from the sentencing of 12 separatist politicians. Protesters hurled acid and molotov cocktails...
A veil of tear gas hangs low over the brick-littered street, shrouding protesters huddled behind ruined cars and rudimentary ramparts. In the distance, as a plume of smoke spirals skyward, an almighty din rises: “Moreno out”. In the weeks since...
Thousands of indigenous demonstrators from all corners of Ecuador have travelled to the capital, Quito, to join the ongoing revolt that has gripped the nation for over a week. Some have come from as far as the Amazon forests to...
The month of October 2019 starts stained with blood for Iraq. After decades of regional conflicts, dictatorship, two US invasions, foreign occupations and a sanguine civil war that laboriously ended with the fall of the Islamic State group in the...
A cursory look at the history of Pakistan shows that its Army wields an enormous amount of power. From foreign policy to security strategy, Pakistan’s Army almost always gets its way, at times even superseding the democratically-elected governments. So, last...
Six days of unrest have left over 100 people dead and thousands injured, as protests and violence have raged with the ongoing Iraqi conflict. On Sunday, 12 anti-government demonstrators were killed in the capital, Baghdad, with seemingly no end in...
Just two words – “Yetnahaw Gaâ” – were enough to land him a prison cell. Scrawled in Algerian Arabic and held aloft, it is an expression now synonymous with the country’s desperate struggle for democracy: ‘they all must leave’. The...
Hong Kong’s government showed its first signs of cracking on Tuesday when Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the controversial extradition bill. Yet even though she removed the legislation which sparked several months of protests, the action is unlikely to quell...
As protests continue in Hong Kong, government officials and economists question the impact on the economy. For the city that was built on trade, and quickly became an epicenter for global markets, Hong Kong’s economy is already showing signs of...
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