Category: America
About 2000 Brazilians have taken to the streets across the country to protest against alleged government corruption and looming recession, calling for the resignation of President Dilma Rouseff. The crowds protested against alleged endemic corruption ...
Masked gunmen have killed at least 19 people and injured seven more in a series of shootings on the outskirts of Brazil’s largest city of Sao Paulo, authorities say. « This is very serious and merits ...
Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Ecuador to protest the President’s moves to seek a fourth term. Indigenous demonstrators blocked roads in six of 24 provinces, while others made the 800km trek to the ...
Dozens of demonstrators have rallied in Ferguson in the US, one year after the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Activists, religious leaders and others are converging on the St Louis suburb for ...
Media workers, activists and supporters held a rally in Mexico City protesting over the murder of press photographer Ruben Espinosa. Many carried cardboard cut-out photos of the victim. He was one of five people found ...
A statement from Guerrero’s prosecutor’s office said Thursday that the bodies, including a decapitated one, were all male and were discovered in the Zitlala township. The corpses had « visible signs of torture, » the statement said, ...
Three people, including a 9-year-old girl, were injured when gunfire broke out in Compton on Monday night, sheriff’s deputies said. The shooting was reported about 8:15 p.m. near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue, said Sgt. ...
It has been 50 years since unarmed marchers from Selma, Alabama set out in defiance of repression in 1965, to demonstrate African-Americans’ constitutional rights, and state troopers attacked them. When Alabama’s Governor refused to protect ...
Thousands of Nicaraguans have staged a protest rally in a central city to voice their anger at a government decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial construction of a canal through their lands. On ...
Controversy has erupted over the racial identity of an NAACP leader in Washington state, after her parents told media outlets that their daughter is white and has been pretending to be black for years. Rachel ...
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