A group of elderly demonstrators have been arrested as thousands of protesters tried to stop construction of a telescope on a mountain considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians,
Police have pleaded with climate change protesters not to disrupt the country’s busiest airport after warning them of the drain on the force’s resources.
UN experts are concerned that Sudan is sliding into a “human rights abyss” in the aftermath of the Sudanese security forces’ deadly break-up of the main protest sit-in in the capital, Khartoum.
Sudan’s ruling military has blamed the country’s protest movement for an escalation as the second day of the opposition’s general strike kicked in during the protesters’ latest bid to pressure the army to hand over power to civilian rule.
Environmental campaigners have boarded an oil rig as it was being towed out to sea and are staging a protest onboard.
Environmental protesters locked themselves on to the Scottish Parliament building and posted the keys to party leaders in the hope of getting changes to the Climate Change Bill.
Anti-government protesters in Albania have hurled firebombs and flares at riot police standing in front of the main government building.
Hundreds of mothers, fathers and families with babies and children took to the streets to demand urgent action on climate change.
Thousands of supporters of Albania’s centre-right opposition have protested in the capital Tirana, calling for the left-wing government to resign and for an early parliamentary election.
Protesters shouted “shame on you” at the Duke of Cambridge as he entered Westminster Abbey for a service to mark 50 years of the UK’s nuclear deterrent.
The Extinction Rebellion movement is here to stay, will not go away, and is set to keep growing, wildlife television presenter Chris Packham has said.