Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Madrid, protesting an Israeli team’s participation in a major multiweek cycling race as well as the ongoing war in Gaza, forced the race to end early on Sunday. Why It Matters For days, the race passed through Spanish towns and cities lined with posters and flags that included…
Microsoft fired two employees on Wednesday after they broke into the office of its vice chair and company president, Brad Smith, earlier this week as part of a protest of the technology company’s purported links to Israel. The terminations came after a group of seven people broke into executive offices at Microsoft’s global headquarters in…
The cityscape of Hong Kong, which grew over the course of two centuries from a fishing village to a colonial port to a gleaming metropolis and international financial center, has long proven hard to visualize. In his classic 1997 study Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, published just months before the region’s handover…
LONDON — A hotel near London that has become the focus of heated anti-migrant protests in recent weeks will have to remove asylum-seekers who are staying there after authorities won a legal bid Tuesday to oust the migrants. Officials from the Epping Forest District Council asked a judge to issue an order to temporarily block migrants from…
“Fight the Trump Takeover” protests held across U.S. – CBS News Watch CBS News Efforts by Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps got new pushback from protesters at rallies across the country Saturday. Nearly 280 events took place in 34 states, according to organizers. Manuel Bojorquez has more. Source link
LONDON — London police said Sunday that 532 people were arrested the previous day when supporters of a pro-Palestinian group recently outlawed as a terrorist organization intentionally broke the law to test the government’s ability to enforce the ban. The Metropolitan Police Service released the updated figures as a separate group of protesters, demanding the immediate release…
London: The Metropolitan Police said it made 474 arrests during the UK’s largest protest in support of Palestine Action, which was recently banned by the government, making it a criminal offence to show any backing for the group. Police officers detain a protester during a rally organised by Defend Our Juries, challenging the British government’s…
What’s behind UK foreign policy change on Palestinian state? The new direction for the UK’s foreign policy regarding the Middle East came shortly after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with US President Donald Trump in Scotland.Just a day later, on July 29, Starmer interrupted his cabinet ministers’ summer break for an emergency meeting, after…
Balmedie, Scotland — President Trump is due to arrive in Scotland Friday for a four-day private trip — his first to the U.K since he was re-elected. The White House says he’ll meet near the end of his visit with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss trade, but he’ll also be opening a brand-new course at…
Getty Images Weeks ahead of President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom, a campaign is underway in London, aiming to plaster posters of Trump and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in highly visible locations. On Thursday, a poster was installed near the U.S. Embassy on the side of a bus stop…