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Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts
Thousands of antigovernment protesters on Saturday filled a central Tel Aviv thoroughfare, the same street where demonstrations riled the nation…
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Columbia Limited Campus Protests, So Students Took to the Streets
As Columbia and Barnard weigh how to protect free speech and student safety, their protest rules have forced some students…
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Protests Simmer in Israel as Country’s President Prepares to Address Congress
The small protests reflect the broad nature of popular opposition to plans by Israel’s government to overhaul the judiciary, and…
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Death Toll in Peru Rises to 46 Amid Extraordinary Violence
“What happened yesterday was really a massacre,” said one human rights activist.
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Actress Detained for Supporting Iranian Protests Is Released
Taraneh Alidoosti, one of the most high-profile targets in Iran’s campaign against celebrities who have expressed solidarity with the demonstrators,…
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Iran Executes Man Over Nationwide Protests
Mohsen Shekari, 23, had been sentenced to death on accusations of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member…
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Xi Loosens Up. It Won’t Be Enough.
Xi Jinping may be the most powerful autocrat in the world, but he was forced this week to pirouette to…
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China Eases ‘Zero Covid’ Restrictions in Victory for Protesters
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a…
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China Stems Wave of Protest, but Ripples of Resistance Remain
Students, residents, lawyers and workers are still challenging the country’s Covid-19 restrictions, even though the intensity of the political chants…
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Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated…
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