Tear gas

Protesters hurled rocks at riot police using tear gas in the Ecuadoran capital of Quito on Friday (October 11), amidst rising public anger over the austerity measures of President Lenin Moreno.

Riot police cleared the streets of central Hong Kong of black-clad protesters and makeshift barriers in another night of rage on Monday

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday wearing face masks in defiance of colonial-era emergency powers

A large crowd amassed for a protest rally ahead of Tuesday's 70th anniversary of communist rule in China.

Palestinians supporting prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons clashed with Israeli security forces on Monday in the West Bank city of Ramallah

Hundreds of protesters, many of them masked and dressed in black, took cover behind umbrellas and barricades made from street fencing.

Police used tear gas and a water cannon during protests outside the local headquarters of the China People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong.

Police said they used tear gas to disperse the crowd after protesters lit fires outside the Tsim Sha Tsui police station

Hong Kong police have fired tear gas at protesters who defied police warnings not to march in a neighbourhood where six days earlier a mob apparently targeting demonstrators brutally attacked people in a train station.

Protesters — some using umbrellas to fend off pepper spray, tear gas and high-pressure water — clashed with police in Hong Kong.

The gendarmes were stopping demonstrators who wanted to rebuild a squat which was destroyed by 2,500 police this week.

Violent confrontations between Israeli military and Palestinians continue in wake of Trump Jerusalem move

The pupils could be seen huddling against a wall while journalists in protective gear tried to shield them.

Hundreds of medics protest at Venezuela's deteriorating healthcare system and medical shortages, blaming President Maduro

South African police have fired rubber bullets and set off stun grenades to disperse student protesters on a Johannesburg university campus.

Greek police fired tear gas and pepper spray at pensioners during an anti-austerity protest in which some of the elderly demonstrators tried to tip over a riot police bus blocking a road to the prime

Around 1500 Greek pensioners tried to march to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s office on Monday to show their anger over cutbacks to their benefits.

Riot police have fired tear gas and pepper spray at protesters who obstructed the route of the Olympic flame through a poor neighbourhood of Rio.

Australia is reeling after footage was aired on TV showing guards tear-gassing teenage inmates of a detention centre and strapping a half-naked, hooded boy to a chair.

Police use tear gas, more than 20 people arrested

Besiktas’ first match in their newly rebuilt Vodafone Arena will be remembered more for pre-match violence than the game itself. The first match in

Greece has accused its northern neighbour the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) of excessive use of violence after Sunday’s border scenes

Hundreds of migrants and refugees have been injured during a confrontation with police on the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

260 injured, "dangerous and deplorable" - Greek government

Protesters tried to disrupt the ceremony in Pristina by letting off tear gas canisters

“What is happening today again in Kosovo’s parliament is a repetition of violent acts, in the highest institution of the country.” Those were the