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After being attacked and held for hours by Taliban enforcers for reporting a protest in the Afghan capital, two Afghan journalists were left with unsightly welts and bruises. After being accused of organizing the protest, the...

Hundreds of people gathered at various protests in Kabul on Tuesday when the Taliban fired rounds into the air to disperse them, the latest show of defiance by Afghans against the hardline Islamist organization that stormed...

Thousands of Cubans participated in rare anti-communist marches on Sunday, yelling “Down with the dictatorship” as President Miguel Diaz-Canel urged his followers to fight the demonstrators. Anti-government protests erupted spontaneously in numerous cities as the country...

At least 42 people have been killed in near-daily protests against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque since April 28, the country’s human rights ombudsman said Tuesday. All but one — a member of the...

Myanmar’s web-savvy protest movement has overcome social media blocks and even a nationwide internet blackout to transmit real-time information out of the country, as the new military regime struggles to tamp down opposition to last week’s...

Thousands of people demonstrated in 25 German cities on Saturday, June 6, in solidarity with the ongoing movement against racism and police violence in the United States and against racism in Germany. From Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover,...

Egyptian authorities have detained at least 373 people as they try to quash rare protests, rights monitors said on Monday, as Egyptian bonds fell and stock losses eased following their sharpest falls in years. Hundreds demonstrated...

Chinese official English-language newspapers blamed meddling by Western governments on Thursday for unrest in Hong Kong amid an escalating diplomatic spat between China and the United Kingdom over protests in the former British colony. “Ideologues in...

Thousands of protesters faced off with riot police early on Monday, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, ahead of an annual rally that is expected to draw huge crowds amid widespread anger over...

News Hour: Six years since the demonstrations that triggered the descent into a brutal civil war, millions of Syrians are bearing the brunt of increasingly restrictive policies around the world and inside Syria to stop them...