PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Another night of nationwide protests against Donald Trump’s election came to a head in Portland, where thousands marched and some smashed store windows, lit firecrackers and started a dumpster fire in what police declared a riot. Some 4,000 protesters were in the streets of Portland late …
HAVANA (AP) — For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente. The retired software entrepreneurs made worldwide headlines by winning Obama administration permission to build the first U.S. factory in Cuba since 1959. Cuban officials lauded their plans to build small tractors …
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Police in Zimbabwe’s capital on Monday fired tear gas, water cannons and warning shots during riots by minibus drivers and others protesting alleged police harassment. The violence, in which 30 people were arrested, came amid a surge in protests in recent weeks because of increasing economic …
MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar could find its access to the single European market blocked by a hostile Spanish government if the United Kingdom were to vote to leave the European Union in a referendum next month, the chief minister of the tiny British territory on Spain’s southwestern tip said Sunday. …
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An area off the North Carolina coast known for its Civil War shipwrecks may be adding another to the collection after the discovery of what is believed to be a Confederate blockade runner near Oak Island. Archaeologists using sonar imaging discovered the 226-foot-long remains of a …
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tens of thousands of students held hands, waved banners and chanted slogans in Nepal’s capital Friday to protest against a border blockade that has caused severe shortages of fuel and an increase in food prices in the Himalayan country. The students lined the Ring Road which …
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Just when Nepal was recovering from the devastating earthquake that killed thousands, flattened communities and chased away foreign tourists, protests by ethnic groups and severe fuel shortages are again keeping visitors away from the nation known for the world’s highest peaks. The comeback that the damaged …
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Hundreds of villagers in central Vietnam blocked traffic on the country’s main artery for hours to protest pollution from a coal-fired thermo power plant, a local official said Thursday. Nguyen Thanh Sang in Binh Thuan province said Thursday that the villagers threw rocks, bricks and gasoline …
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Striking workers making shoes and clothes in Cambodia for Western brands blocked roads and briefly scuffled with police on Friday. The workers are demanding a two-fold increase in the minimum wage to $160. The protesters snarled traffic in and around the capital, Phnom Penh, and …
BANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government protesters determined to unseat Thailand’s prime minister surrounded a Bangkok sports stadium in an unsuccessful attempt to physically block political parties from registering for a February election. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is popular among the rural majority but disliked by the urban middle class and …
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — One protester was killed by gunfire and another was seriously wounded Sunday at the site of a blockade in southern Thailand where rubber farmers have been protesting for more than a week against a steep decline in rubber prices. It was not clear who was …