BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, whose bloc won the most seats in Iraq's elections last year, demanded Wednesday that parliament be dissolved and new national polls be called. This image grab taken from from Al-Iraqiya TV on August 3, 2022, shows Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr...
SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Canada -- Indigenous women briefly protested as Pope Francis celebrated mass during his visit to Canada on Thursday, demanding that he retract centuries-old Church doctrine that empowered Europeans to colonize non-Christian native lands. Indigenous people hold a protest...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Two activists who helped lead mass demonstrations that toppled Sri Lanka's president were arrested Wednesday, police said, as parliament extended tough emergency laws imposed to restore order. Anti-government protesters (R) speaks with the members of Sri Lankan security forces...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A sullen crowd reacted to the election of Sri Lanka's new president with disappointment Wednesday, near the protest camp where they last week celebrated chasing his predecessor into exile. Demonstrators carrying an effigy of interim Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) declared the entire stretch of Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City as a no-rally zone during the July 25 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Bongbong Marcos. And in anticipation of protesters who may force their way to Commonwealth Avenue, mobile...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's protest movement reached its 100th day Sunday having forced one president from office and now turning its sights on his successor as the country's economic crisis continues. People celebrate the resignation of Sri Lanka's President, outside presidential office in...
QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador's government and Indigenous leaders signed a deal Thursday that would cut fuel prices and end cost-of-living protests that largely paralyzed the country for 18 straight days. The president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities in Ecuador (Conaie), Leonidas Iza...
'TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino In recent news this month, reports on the Philippines’ diplomatic protests over transgressions in our country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) were made by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) against China. According to the DFA, we have filed over 300...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- Hundreds of protesters in Bataan, Bulacan and Angeles City were peacefully dispersed by police authorities on Tuesday, a day after the national elections that saw former Senator Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte win via...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- A Singaporean drug trafficker was hanged on Wednesday in the city-state's first execution since 2019, campaigners said, despite appeals for clemency from the United Nations and rights groups. It was the first in what activists fear is a looming wave of executions and came...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Thousands of largely Russian protesters rallied against President Vladimir Putin in central Prague on Saturday, calling on him to stop the war in Ukraine. Around 5,000 people, according to the organisers, chanted "Russia without Putin", "Freedom for Russia, peace for...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's ecision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week. Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry...
