Month: October 2020

On Wednesday, nearly 400 protesters were detained by Indonesian police. On the second day, some armed men with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons, due to heated demonstrations over the controversial new job law in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Demonstrations took place in at least 12 places, with police detaining 183 people outside parliament in Palembang in South Sumatra and holding more than 200 protesters for questioning in the capital Jakarta, a day after tear gas and water cannon were used to disperse crowds in multiple cities. The protesters are demanding the government revokes an “omnibus” jobs creation law that has outraged unions, because it lopsidedly favors businesses and will hurt workers and the environment. Footage from the Javanese city of Semarang showed angr...

Over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to "restore stability" to the region following days of heavy clashes enclave. The enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians. Both sides have blamed each other for the violence and the current fighting is the worst that the countries have seen in decades. President Rouhani also said it was "totally unacceptable" for any stray shells and missiles to land on Iranian soil. President Rouhani said on Wednesday, "We must be attentive that the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan does not become a regional war." "Peace is the basis of our work and we hope to restore stability to the region in a peaceful way," he added. Shells had landed on villages in Iran, just across from i...

A police officer in Chile has been arrested after allegedly throwing a teenager from a bridge during a protest. The North Central Prosecutor’s Office of Santiago has accused the officer of “causing” the 16-year-old boy to fall in the Mapocho River in the nation’s capital, Santiago on Friday. The teenager is in hospital in a stable condition with head trauma and a fractured wrist.buy kamagra online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/kamagra.html no prescription However, chief of police in Santiago’s western area, Enrique Monrás, said the teen lost his balance and fell over the bridge railing and into a river bed after police attempted to arrest him. Hundreds of demonstrators took the streets of downtown Santiago on Saturday to protest against the police o...

Armed assailants have killed 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso as their convoy tried to make its way home, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday. The gunmen, who carried out the attack near the town of Pissila in the Center-North region on the night of Oct 4, separated the men from the group and shot them. The women and children were let go, UNHCR said in a statement based on survivors’ testimony. The attack on the displaced people occurred as they were returning to their homes from Pissila, hoping for an improved security situation there,” the U.N. said. This year alone, hundreds of people have been killed in dozens of attacks on civilians. Over 1 million people are displaced, more than one in every 20 inhabitants, the UN says.