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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 May 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 May 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 April 2019

Somalia

Somalia riots leave six dead

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

13 April 2019

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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.

6 April 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.

2 March 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 October 2018

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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 October 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.

2 October 2018

Europe

"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 September 2018

Europe

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 September 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 August 2018

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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.

2 August 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

9 April 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 March 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 March 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

3 March 2018

Italy

Anti-fascists clash with police in Italy

In Turin, leftist demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon around a hotel where the far-right CasaPound party was holding a rally

23 February 2018

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Fresh flare-up of Palestinian fury at Trump Jerusalem move

Clashes and rocket fire marked another Friday rocked by rage at the US President's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

29 December 2017