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Clashes outside Turkey's Washington embassy

Fighting erupted among protesters on the streets of Washington, DC on Tuesday (May 16), as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with US President Donald Trump at the White house earlier in the…

Honduras

Honduras transfers hundreds of prisoners to new remote facilities

Honduras has transferred hundreds of suspected gang members to a new maximum security prison in a bid to stamp out criminal activity in the country’s overcrowded…

Business Series

Facebook to hire 3,000 more monitors to block violent videos

Facebook says it is hiring 3,000 additional workers to block live streams of violence and respond more swiftly to reports of inappropriate material.

Japan

Drunk passenger starts fistfight on plane

Footage has emerged of the moment a man entered into a fistfight with another passenger on an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight from Japan to the USA.

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Sweden

Swedish mosque damaged in suspected arson attack

Man arrested after Stockholm mosque burned

Brazil

Violence erupts after general strike in Brazil

In Rio de Janeiro, at least eight buses were torched as police launched rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets at masked demonstrators.

Brazil

Brazil cities paralysed by nationwide anti-austerity strikes

Nationwide strikes led by unions in Brazil to protest against government austerity measures have seriously disrupted public transport in several cities.

France

{Watch} Paris clashes after election results announced

Not long after the projections for the first round of the French presidential ballot were made public, clashes broke out in Paris.

Turkey

Three killed in gunfight at polling station in Turkey

Local media reported the violence was sparked between two groups due to differing political views.

Sport

Crowd trouble mars Lyon victory-United draw in Brussels

Crowd trouble delays Lyon match-Man United draw with Anderlecht

South Sudan

Thousands in South Sudan flee upsurge in ethnic killings

UN says makeshift refugee camps on the border with Uganda are full to over flowing following a further spread in ethnic killings

Italy

Genoa G8: police admits brutality, compensation agreed

Some 16 years after anti-globalisation protests broke out in Genoa, Italy has admitted its responsibility for police brutality and has agreed to pay 45,000 euros each to six people for moral and mater

France

Poachers kill rhino in French zoo

An endangered white rhino killed for its ivory in France

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USA cop shooting

An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer fired his gun during a physical altercation with a group of teenage boys in Anaheim on the afternoon of February…

Spain

Teen arrested after high school stabbing in Spain

A seventeen year-old has been arrested after stabbing five classmates in a high school in Villena in southeastern Spain.

Russia

Russian Duma backs draft law easing penalty for domestic violence

The Russian parliament’s lower house the Duma has overwhelming backed a draft law that would ease some penalties for domestic violence.

Brazil

Brazil's brutal prison violence prompts government action

Brazil's prison violence prompts government action

Brazil

Mass escape after prison riot in Brazil claims 56 lives

Over 100 prisoners are on the loose and 56 have died after two rival drugs gangs ran riot in a Brazilian prison.

Italy

Calm restored after riot at migrant reception centre in Italy

The unrest in Conetta comes amid signs that Italy is toughening its stance on migrants, with more deportations and an increased number of reception centres.

Brazil

Brazil: decapitated bodies tossed over wall after drug gang prison massacre

Around 60 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil in what officials say is the biggest prison massacre in the history of the state of Manaus.