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A special kind of iron curtain has come down across central Paris

Bangladesh has been gripped by violence after relentless clashes between student protesters, security officials and pro-government student activists over a quota system for government jobs

What began as peaceful protests by students in Bangladesh against a quota system for government jobs has turned into an unprecedented challenge against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ruling Awami League party

What began as peaceful protests by students in Bangladesh against a quota system for government jobs eventually turned into an uprising that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country by helicopter

Police in Kenya have banned protests in the capital indefinitely citing a lack of leadership that would ensure peaceful protests

A Kenyan court has suspended a police ban on protests in the capital

An Israeli delegation has arrived in Egypt to continue cease-fire talks as Israel and Hamas consider the latest proposal

A leading far-right figure in the Israeli government visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday, a move that threatened cease-fire talks to end the 9-month-old war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

South Korea says North Korea has launched balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea

South Korea says it has restarted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in response to North Korea’s resumption of trash-carrying balloon launches