Turkey police bill raises fears of new clampdown on dissent
By SUZAN FRASER and DESMOND BUTLER Chairs flew and lawmakers traded punches. A brawl in Parliament over a new security bill has forced the spotlight on mounting suspicions that President…
Protests and demonstrations
Gulf countries denounce Shiite rebel’s ‘coup’ in Yemen
By AHMED AL-HAJ A group of Gulf countries denounced the Shiite rebel takeover of Yemen as a “coup” Saturday, calling for the United Nations to take action as thousands demonstrated…
Hungarians protest against premier’s dealings with Putin
By PABLO GORONDI Thousands of protesters demanded the ouster of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government Sunday, a day before a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Around 3,000 people…
Egypt releases imprisoned Al-Jazeera reporter
By SARAH EL DEEB A reporter for Al-Jazeera English was released from an Egyptian prison and deported Sunday after more than a year behind bars, but his two Egyptian colleagues…
Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
By GREG KELLER and RAF CASERTA French court has upheld the Paris police chief’s order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France’s worst terrorism…
Battered NY mayor calls for temporary protest halt
By JONATHAN LEMIRE As the New York Police Department mourns two of its own, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for a pause in protests and rancor amid a widening rift…
NY police union leader well known for his bite
By COLLEEN LONG Patrick Lynch was hollering. Standing outside a Brooklyn hospital after the bodies of two slain police officers were taken away, the head of the nation’s largest police…
Cops’ killer angry at chokehold death
By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed…