Europe’s Gen Z takes to the streets in wave of anger
Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!” The slogan, taken from the 2012 ...
France protests turn violent as 410,000 march against rising living costs
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in France on Saturday, with largely peaceful rallies giving way to clashes in Paris and Marseille as night fell despite a huge security operation ...
French businesses, events to close with more weekend protests expected
Businesses, cultural events and museums planned to close at the weekend despite curbs on demonstrations as French President Emmanuel Macron seeks to restore order a week after nationwide protests turned ...
France’s Melenchon under fire over civil unrest
Rivals from the centre-left to the far right have turned on Jean-Luc Melenchon and his France Unbowed (LFI) party, accusing them of fuelling France’s worst civil unrest in years.
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Buildings burn as Albania’s capital Tirana erupts into student violence
Tens of thousands of students stormed the streets of Tirana on Wednesday, setting alight a government building and two banks and hurling stones at police during a protest over rising ...
Attackers douse teacher in petrol as student protests rage across France
Attackers doused a headteacher in petrol and started fires in at least two schools on Thursday, officials said, as increasingly violent student protests raged across France against staff shortages and ...
Student walkout over Mitsero asphalt plant
Parents’ associations from communities impacted by the Prometheas Asphalt Ltd plant in Mitsero will be standing by as their children stage a school walkout on Friday.
The protest will run ...
Our View: Students join the legions of take, take, take demands
On the final day of the debate of the state budget, a group of students gathered outside the House of Representative to protest against the cuts to their financial aid. ...
California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling ...
Students mark 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
Students on Wednesday morning marched to the US Embassy in Nicosia to mark the November 17 Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973 when students held protests against the junta that ruled Greece from 1967 ...
Determination and cynicism mark UDI protests
University and high school students on Monday marched all over Nicosia to protest against the November 15, 1983 unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in the north while calling for a solution to ...