Kenya's president says he won't sign finance bill that led protesters to storm parliament

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. It was the biggest assault on Kenya’s government in decades. The government...

Judge upholds North Carolina's anti-rioting law, dismisses civil liberties suit

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a civil rights group challenging North Carolina's anti-rioting law, whose criminal penalties were raised last year by state legislators. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina sued over the law,...

Activists pour red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps in outrage over femicides in Italy

ROME (AP) — Police detained several activists who poured red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday to raise awareness about femicides in Italy. The protesters, from an organization called “Bruciamo Tutto,'' or ”Let's Burn Everything,'' spilled paint down the...

Kenya's president says he won't sign finance bill that led protesters to storm parliament in anger over rising costs

Suspected North Korean hypersonic missile exploded in flight, South Korea says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A suspected hypersonic missile launched by North Korea exploded in flight on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, as North Korea protests the regional deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier for a military drill with South Korea and Japan. Later...

As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since...

Here's what led Kenyans to burn part of parliament and call for the president's resignation

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Kenya's president came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a “hustler” and vowing relief from economic pain. But Tuesday's deadly chaos in the capital, Nairobi, shows how far support for him has turned. Part of parliament...

Belarus human rights group denounces detention of priest who posted Ukrainian flag on social media

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post. Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and...

Anti-tax protesters storm Kenya's parliament, drawing police fire as president vows to quash unrest

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of protesters stormed Kenya’s parliament Tuesday to protest tax proposals, burning part of the building, sending lawmakers fleeing and drawing fire from police in unrest that the president vowed to quash. Several people were killed. It was the most...

Jury awards $700k to Seattle protesters jailed for writing anti-police slogans in chalk on barricade

Four protesters who were jailed for writing anti-police graffiti in chalk on a temporary barricade near a Seattle police precinct have been awarded nearly $700,000 after a federal court jury decided their civil rights were violated. The Jan. 1, 2021, arrests of the four followed the...