Max Matza and Nadine Yousif BBC News Watch: Moment protesters storm into Columbia University library New York police have arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters after they occupied part of the main library at Columbia University on Wednesday. Two university security officers were injured when protesters forced their way into Butler Library on Wednesday, according to…
Reuters Riot police clash with protesters on Saturday night in Istanbul Protests have raged on for a fourth night in Istanbul following the arrest of the city’s mayor, part of the largest demonstrations Turkey has seen in more than a decade. Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was detained on Wednesday,…
Guy Delauney BBC Balkans correspondent Reuters North Macedonia has begun a week of mourning Thousands of people have protested in the North Macedonian town of Kocani, demanding justice and action against corruption after a nightclub fire killed 59 people, many of them teenagers. “Nobody should die like that – nobody,” a teenage boy told the…
Anbarasan Ethirajan South Asia Editor Protesters set fire to Sheikh Hasina’s house on Wednesday evening Protesters in Bangladesh have vandalised and set fire to the former family home of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as well as those of other members of her party. The unrest was sparked by news that Hasina would address the…
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been detained by police in Amsterdam after defying a ban on public protests in the Dutch capital. Hundreds gathered in Dam Square on Sunday, calling for an end to the conflict in Gaza and expressing dissent towards the ban. Demonstrations were temporarily banned by the mayor after Israeli football fans…
A student who was suspended after he sprayed a foul-smelling substance during a campus demonstration in Columbia University has been awarded nearly $400,000 ( ₹3.3 crore) as settlement from the Ivy league college. The Israeli student who carried out the attack during a protest in support of Palestine this year was suspended from January to…
Kamala Harris is under fire once again for spewing “word salad.” The vice president recently stumbled over her words after a heckler interrupted her speech during the Harris-Walz campaign rally in Nevada Thursday night. “You know what? Let me say something about this,” she said amid the protests at the Reno event. As the video…
