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Brazil

Prison clash in Brazil leaves at least 52 people dead: officials

A prison clash in Brazil's Altamira jail left at least 52 people dead, said officials.

29/07/2019

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Masked men storm train station in Hong Kong

Footage showed them beating people with wooden dowels in the station and inside a subway car

22/07/2019

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Clashes in Hong Kong amid anger over proposed extradition bill

Protesters — some using umbrellas to fend off pepper spray, tear gas and high-pressure water — clashed with police in Hong Kong.

12/06/2019

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Protests in Honduras over healthcare privatisation fears

Teachers, medical workers and students took to the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Thursday (May 30) in protest at reports the government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez is seeking to privatise healthcare and education.

31/05/2019

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Indonesia: Protesters and police clash amid post-election discontent

Indonesian police fired water cannon and rubber bullets at protesters trying to breach barbed wire barricades on Wednesday, May 22 as demonstrations over the outcome of the presidential election hit the capital for a second night.

23/05/2019

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Georgia: Police clash with protesters against hydropower plant

Georgian police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest by residents of a mountainous region against the construction of a hydropower plant.

21/04/2019

Somalia

Somalia riots leave six dead

Six people have been shot dead by the security forces in the Somalian capital Mogadishu

13/04/2019

World News

Greek police clash with refugees at the Macedonian border

Hundreds had arrived on Thursday hoping to cross the border into Macedonia and travel onward to northern Europe.

06/04/2019

Algeria

Algeria protests: 50 police officers and dozens of demonstrators injured

The largest anti-government protest for eight years sees 45 people arrested. Algerian's urge President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down.

02/03/2019

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Migrants clash with Bosnian police while trying to cross the border into Croatia

Several dozen migrants have clashed with Bosnian police while trying to cross the border into neighbouring Croatia, a member of the European Union.

25/10/2018

World

Migrants clash with police at Bosnia-Croatia border

Several people have been injured in Bosnia & Herzegovina in a stand-off between police and migrants trying to cross into EU member state Croatia.

25/10/2018

Spain

Tensions rise as large protests mark Catalonia referendum anniversary

Riot police broke up a demonstration in Barcelona after tens of thousands of Catalan independence supporters protested, a year on from the vote deemed illegal by Madrid.

02/10/2018

My Europe Series

"Insiders" talks to all sides on the great German coal divide

Despite its Green credentials Germany is a heavy user of coal, especially lignite, which comes from Europe's biggest opencast strip-mine. Now it wants to expand, but first it has to expel protesters from what remains of Hambach forest, which is due to disappear.

28/09/2018

My Europe Series

German energy giant clears climate protesters from Hambach forest

Central Europe's last primordial forest in Germany is about to be obliterated to dig up dirty and inefficient lignite coal, despite Berlin's trumpeted green credentials. Insiders talks to all sides of the story, but RWE refuses to comment.

28/09/2018

Romania

Over 100 hurt in Romania as police clash with protesters

At least 100 protesters were hurt in clashes with police at a mass anti-government rally in the Romanian capital Bucharest

11/08/2018

World News

Violence in Zimbabwe amid protests over initial election resulta

Violence in Zimbabwe amid protests over initial election results - As ruling Zanu-PF appear to be on their way to victory - MDC supporters have claimed vote rigging. Protests were launched and government troops opened fire.

02/08/2018

France

Police and activists clash at protest camp in western France

Nearly 2,500 military police have been sent to evacuate the site in Notre Dame des Landes

09/04/2018

Israel

UN Secretary General calls for investigation over deadly Gaza clashes

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation after Friday’s violence between Palestinians and Israeli troops which left a reported 17 Palestinians dead.

31/03/2018

Gaza

Several Palestinians killed in Gaza-Israel border protests

The demonstrators are demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to towns and villages their families fled from, or were driven out of, when the state of Israel was created in 1948

30/03/2018

Ukraine

Ukraine: Anti-government activists and police clash near parliament

Security forces moved in to clear a protest camp set up by supporters of opposition leader and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili

03/03/2018