Russia detains more than 600 people over election protest: monitor
Russian police arrested more than 600 people on Saturday, including prominent activists, around a political protest in Moscow to demand that members of the opposition...
Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets in Hong Kong clash over banned march
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets while protesters hurled rocks during clashes in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists...
Polish rights campaigners gather in Warsaw to condemn homophobic violence
Over 1,000 people gathered in Warsaw on Saturday in support of LGBT rights a week after the first pride march in the city of Bialystok...
55 bodies recovered from Libya shipwreck: aid worker
Fifty-five bodies have been recovered so far off the Libyan coast, an aid worker said on Saturday, after a wooden boat carrying hundreds of migrants...
Iran missile tests defensive, Fars news agency cites Iranian military source as saying
Iran’s missile tests are part of the country’s defensive needs and are not directed against any country, and Tehran does not need any power’s permission,...
UK PM Johnson tells EU: ditch backstop or face no-deal Brexit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the “anti-democratic” Irish backstop must be ditched if they were to strike a...
Sudan says 87 killed when security forces broke up protest in June
The head of a Sudanese investigative committee said on Saturday that 87 people were killed and 168 wounded on June 3 when a sit-in protest...
Russian police detain people gathering in Moscow for opposition protest
Russian police have started detaining people gathering in central Moscow for an opposition protest on Saturday that had been declared illegal by the authorities, Reuters...
Russian police detain 317 people over election protest: monitor
Russian police detained 317 people on Saturday, including prominent opposition activists, around a political protest in Moscow which authorities had declared illegal....
Northern Ireland police say Republicans failed in attack on officers
Police in Northern Ireland said on Saturday they believed that dissident Republicans tried to kill police officers in an incident overnight....