0233 GMT December 11, 2019
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Protestors in northeast India set fire to tires and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.
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The Iraqi Commission of Integrity has summoned or issued arrest warrants against more than 250 former and acting officials on suspicion of corruption, as part of the government's reforms after a wave of protests over unemployment, corruption and lack of public services hit the country.
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Crowds of black-clad demonstrators thronged Hong Kong on Sunday in fresh anti-government protests since local elections last month.
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Protesters clashed with police as thousands took to the streets of Chile's capital Friday for a demonstration that marked 50 days since the outbreak of the country's worst civil unrest in decades.
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Iran’s Judiciary’s spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaeili rejected the number of casualties of recent protests which has been provided by certain sources, stressing that the figures are fewer than what the sources claim.
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Hundreds of office workers in Hong Kong’s business district gathered on Monday for the first in a week of lunchtime protests backing the pro-democracy movement after its resounding victory in district polls last month in the Chinese-ruled city.
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Iraq's Parliament accepted the resignation of the embattled cabinet on Sunday, after two months of violent unrest that have left more than 420 people dead.
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Thousands of people rallied on Saturday against the far-right Alternative for Germany in the western German city of Brunswick where the AfD gathered to elect new leaders.
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International Desk
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Thousands of people across the world joined rallies demanding more action on climate change on Friday, aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week.
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Reports of clashes in Baghdad and southern Iraq indicate that at least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in the latest spate of protests against economic hardships and corruption, police and medical sources said Sunday.
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Three police officers have been killed in an attack on a police station in southwestern Colombia as thousands gathered for renewed protests in the country’s capital of Bogota.
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Colombian President Ivan Duque on Friday promised a "national conversation" on social policies, one day after massive demonstrations against his right-wing government left three dead and dozens wounded.
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Protesters prevented Lebanon’s Parliament from holding its first session in two months on Tuesday, escalating a wave of demonstrations against the country’s economic downturn.
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Thousands of Bolivian farmers marched on Monday to demand the resignation of interim President Jeanine Anez, who rose to power in the wake of former president Evo Morales’s departure into exile.
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