Riots

As India counts dead, brutality of Hindu-Muslim riot emerges

NEW DELHI (AP) — The wounded came in waves. First in ones and twos, limping up the steps and staggering through the alum...
8:01 28 February 2022

Scars of violence haunt India’s capital after deadly riots

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s hard-line Hindu nationalists watched anti-government protests centered in Muslim communities fo...
8:05 27 February 2022

Greek islanders attack riot police in migrant camp protests

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government hoped to defuse tensions after protests over plans for new migrant camps on tw...
22:42 26 February 2022

Death toll rises to 24 from Delhi riots during Trump trip

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 24 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided wit...
18:27 26 February 2022

Greece: Clashes on islands over new migrant camps

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Clashes broke out overnight on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios, where residents tried to pre...
6:50 25 February 2022

Violence escalates in Beirut as anti-government anger flares

BEIRUT — Lebanese security forces used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets in clashes with hundreds of anti-government protesters outside the c...
19:19 19 January 2022

Riots in Lebanon’s capital leave more than 150 injured

BEIRUT — Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst ...
19:28 18 January 2022

More protests as India grapples with citizenship law fallout

NEW DELHI — Police in the Indian capital charged more than a dozen people with rioting and the government asked broadcasters to refrain from using con...
8:03 21 December 2021

Police, protesters clash outside Barcelona-Real Madrid game

BARCELONA, Spain — Riot police clashed with protesters in the streets Wednesday night outside a soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, as aut...
22:35 18 December 2021

Police targets of both love and anger at Hong Kong rallies

Several thousand people, some making heart signs with their hands, turned out in Hong Kong on Sunday in an unusual display of support for the police f...
12:34 15 December 2021

Pro-government protesters denounce Hong Kong ‘rioters’

HONG KONG — Only after finding safety in numbers, joining hundreds of other pro-government protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday, did Reddy Lin drum up ...
12:14 7 December 2021

The Latest: China editor says HK police should use live ammo

HONG KONG — The Latest on Hong Kong protests (all times local):
6:59 18 November 2021

Hong Kong police say protesters out of control, deny curfew

HONG KONG — Hong Kong police warned protesters on Thursday that they were moving “one step closer to terrorism” by sinking the city into chaos, as rio...
10:13 14 November 2021

Marker calls 1898 violence a ‘coup,’ not a ‘race riot’

RALEIGH, N.C. — The state of North Carolina is moving away from using the phrase "race riot" to describe the violent overthrow of the Wilmington gover...
15:30 8 November 2021

Riot police storm Hong Kong malls to nip more protests

HONG KONG — Riot police stormed several malls in Hong Kong on Sunday in a move to thwart more pro-democracy protests, as the city's leader heads to Be...
12:58 3 November 2021

Hong Kong protesters, police in Halloween standoff

HONG KONG — Police and protesters engaged in a standoff in Hong Kong's nightlife district on Thursday after pro-democracy demonstrators urged people t...
15:05 31 October 2021

Separatists clash with police in Barcelona after huge rally

BARCELONA, Spain — Police and violent protesters in Spain's restive Catalonia region clashed Saturday after a massive rally in Barcelona against the i...
22:03 26 October 2021

Chile’s shaken government makes concessions after protests

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's government made more economic concessions Thursday to try to curb a week of deadly protests over price increases and other g...
16:01 24 October 2021

Protests rage in Chile despite president’s reform promise

SANTIAGO, Chile — Tens of thousands of protesters flooded Chile's capital, setting up flaming barricades and clashing with riot police Wednesday after...
22:02 23 October 2021