By AFPTens of thousands of people marched in France Saturday to protest police violence in demonstrations organised by the left, with clashes breaking out on the margins of the Paris rally.The nationwide protest came just under three months after the...

More than 500 politicians, heads of state and government, and human rights organizations, as well as journalists and Nobel Prize laureates, have signed a petition to support the Iranian protesters against the “dictatorship” in Tehran.The petition, wh...

The Jordanian scene today is full of accelerating events, some of which have been violent, and in the background of the scene is an economic crisis the likes of which the country has not witnessed before.While experts fear that the events will destab...

A senior Jordanian officer was killed and two other police were wounded in the country's south, where protesters have taken to the streets for days against rising fuel prices, authorities said Friday.Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police ch...

By AFPAssailants on motorbikes shot dead nine people, including a woman and two children, during protests in two separate attacks in southern Iran, state media said on Thursday.Three suspects were arrested and the hunt was on for others after Wednesd...

By AFPRights groups voiced grave fears Sunday for the inmates of Iran's notorious Evin prison after it was hit by a major fire overnight, in the fifth week of the wave of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.Gunshots and explosions were heard...

By AFPIranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday accused the United States of resorting to a "policy of destabilisation" against the Islamic republic which is gripped by protests over Mahsa Amini's death.A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since the 22...

By AFPIran's foreign ministry said Sunday it had summoned Britain's ambassador to protest what it described as "invitation to riots" by Farsi-speaking television channels critical of Tehran based in London.Norway's ambassador was also ordered to appe...

Hundreds of Sudanese rallied on Sunday in support of a political initiative backed by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who led last year's military coup, AFP correspondents said.The rallies took place outside a Khartoum conference hall where meeting...

Sudanese police and soldiers deployed in large numbers Sunday across the capital Khartoum, ahead of mass protests planned by pro-democracy groups against coup leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.Security forces erected road blocks on bridges crossi...

Thousands of people took to the streets in the United States on Saturday to push for action on the devastating gun violence plaguing the country, where Republican politicians have repeatedly blocked efforts to enact stricter firearms laws.Protesters...