A spate of carollers sang to the public from across the Presidential Secretariat’s heavily guarded barriers. Sri Lanka awaits an IMF bailout of US$2.9 billion (£2.4 billion). Sri Lankans endured extreme shortages of food, fuel, and other essential commodities. The throngs of protesters that held a zone around the president’s office for months during Sri … Read more
Indigenous protester were killed in clashes with law enforcement in Ecuador. The man was participating in a roadblock in the Amazon town of Puyo. Thousands of protesters, many of whom had traveled to Quito on foot or on the backs of trucks. On the ninth day of protests against the Ecuadorian government, an Indigenous … Read more
On Monday, Armenian opposition supporters clashed briefly with police in the latest in a series of weeks of rallies over Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s handling of a territorial dispute with arch-foe Azerbaijan. Opposition parties have been staging rallies since mid-April to demand Pashinyan’s resignation, accusing him of planning to make unacceptable concessions to Baku over … Read more
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court on Thursday barred former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, his politician son Namal, and 15 of their associates from leaving the country due to acts of violence against anti-government protesters. The magistrate in Colombo’s capital has also urged police to look into mob attacks on peaceful protestors on Monday, which resulted … Read more
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana today requested that embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa convene the House as soon as possible to discuss the current situation, which includes unprecedented violence and widespread protest against the government over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, a media report said. According to Serjeant-at-Arms Narenda Fernando of … Read more
CARACAS: As part of the annual Easter “burning of Judas” ceremonies, a four-headed mannequin bearing the likenesses of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin was set ablaze on Sunday. On Easter Sunday, it is traditional in Venezuela to incinerate an effigy of Judas Iscariot, the biblical character who is said to have … Read more
BAGHDAD: Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi launched investigations in two ministries into the complaints about officials’ misuse of state resources in their election campaigns for the upcoming parliamentary elections in October. A statement on Tuesday from al-Kadhimi’s media office said “there are complaints about the exploitation of state resources in election campaigns by ministers or … Read more
Two more people were killed and dozens are injured during anti-government protests in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad here on Thursday. Clashes between protesters and security forces in central Baghdad killed two people and wounded 42, sources said. According to the security source, the riot police used tear gas in their attempt to disperse the protesters. The … Read more
Curfew has been declared in Baghdad starting early on Thursday until further notice owing to an anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad and several other cities of Iraq. The Prime Minister of Iraq Adel Abdul Mahdi announced late on Wednesday, after two days of nationwide anti-government protests turned violent. According to the statement issued by the commander-in-chief … Read more
