Charlotte McDonald-Gibson The Independent July 24, 2013 The Bulgarian Parliament building. The President appealed for calm after more than 100 MPs, ministers and staff were forced to spend the night in parliament as demonstrators blocked the exits and held off police by throwing stones. It…
Larry Rohter New York Times July 13, 2013 Brazilian President Dilma Roussef. First she wanted to convoke a constitutional assembly, then she favored holding a plebiscite. Her government has promised more money for education and health care, to be paid for from oil royalties that…
Craig Mackenzie Daily Mail July 13, 2013 Victim: One of the badly burned family is carried away to hospital after setting himself alight inside the grounds of the government offices in Rajkot, in Gujarat, western India, in protest over a threat to the family home.…
Simon Tomlinson Daily Mail July 10, 2013 A group of six Greenpeace activists have begun scaling Britain’s tallest building in protest at drilling in the Arctic. The women, who evaded security guards at the 72-storey Shard in central London early this morning, said their action…
Awaken Longford July 4, 2013 Well, what can I say?..today was one of the good days, as everyone will know by now, the scheduled Allsop Space Auction of distressed, repossessed property at the Shelbourne Hotel was cancelled due to the protest organised by Friends of…
