When tens of thousands of protesters blocked three key bridges across the Danube River, paralyzing Serbia’s second-biggest city this weekend, the Balkan country’s beleaguered governing party issued a stern warning — not to the protesters but to the state-controlled broadcasting service for reporting on them. After mostly ignoring three months of student-led street demonstrations across … Read more
Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off enormous protests when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said Thursday morning. The police said that they had arrested five people and that a murder investigation had been launched. Mr. Momika had been set to appear in Stockholm … Read more
The Gaîté Lyrique theater has been a jewel in Paris’s glittering cultural scene since the 19th century. It once hosted the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and performances by the Ballets Russes. This season, though, its most talked-about drama has been generated by more than 300 homeless immigrants who are camping in the venue, sleeping on … Read more
Battered by weeks of student-led street demonstrations, Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday sacrificed his prime minister in an effort to calm protests that had engulfed towns and cities, posing a major challenge to his decade-long grip on power. Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, a close ally of President Vucic and nominal leader of their … Read more
Hundreds of protesters attacked several foreign embassies and a United Nations building in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday as a rebel offensive backed by neighboring Rwanda in the country’s east threatened to spiral into a regional crisis. Protesters burned tires and threw stones in front of the U.S. Embassy’s main compound, … Read more
When the rioters came for Spellow Library, they used the nonfiction section as kindling. Deborah Moore, then the library’s manager, arrived the next morning to find that the shelves and couches recently purchased as part of a refurbishment project had been stacked up to build a pyre on the ground floor. The books that had … Read more
South Korea’s impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection last month when he briefly imposed martial law. Mr. Yoon’s indictment means that his trial is likely to start soon. It follows the indictments of a former defense minister and several military generals and police … Read more
Some Australians were in no mood to celebrate the country’s national day on Sunday because they had long seen it as a reminder of colonial oppression. A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues to British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was … Read more
When Aleksandr G. Lukashenko last ran for president of Belarus, the former Soviet republic he has led since 1994, he faced an unusual phenomenon: rival candidates who actually tried to win. His eventual victory in that election, in 2020, widely regarded as fraudulent, was met with nationwide protests, a subsequent brutal crackdown supported by Russia … Read more
Follow our live coverage of the latest news on President Trump. As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape the federal government, Democrats have retreated into a political crouch that reflects their powerlessness in Washington. Far from rising up in outrage, the opposition party’s lawmakers have taken a muted wait-and-see approach as Mr. Trump tries to … Read more