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A group of North Koreans sent to work in a Chinese seafood factory last month rioted and occupied the building to protest unpaid wages. During the protest, they took a factory official hostage and beat a representative of the owning company to death.

While the foundational story of modern Ireland is throwing off British oppression, Dublin has been quick to borrow water cannon from the UK.

At least 1,200 buildings attacked in nightly violence which the head of a top business federation says caused at least $1.1 billion of damage.

Police unions reported to the prosecutor by MP who accuses them of inciting civil war by talking of a “war” against “savage hordes”.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill and Britain’s national war memorial were included in a list of “contentious” monuments by Scotland Yard.

Riots broke out in Paris following a deadly shooting at a Kurdish Cultural Centre on Friday, with Kurdish demonstrators clashing with police.

Violent protests against the presence of the United Nations (U.N.) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s North Kivu province continued on Tuesday for the second straight day, resulting in the deaths of at least three U.N. peacekeepers and 12 rioters, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Police in India’s northern city of Kanpur said on Monday they had arrested 38 people in connection with acts of rioting on Friday after local Muslims and Hindus pelted each other with stones, India Today reported.

Police in India’s northwestern city of Jodhpur imposed curfews on ten districts and ordered a city-wide internet blockage on Tuesday in an effort to quell a riot between local Muslims and Hindus that erupted on Monday, the Hindustan Times reported.

A Muslim mob in the southwestern Indian city of Hubbali stoned a local police station on Saturday after becoming enraged over the station’s handling of a local Hindu resident who changed his Whatsapp profile photo to a photoshopped pro-Hindu image, India’s the Wire news website reported on Sunday.

Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Police in Brussels clashed with protestors during a 50,000 strong demonstration against coronavirus restrictions and mandatory vaccinations.

Police arrested 20 non-European Union migrants weeks after a mass brawl between rival groups that involved knives, machetes, and other weapons on the streets of the city of Livorno.

Five Antifa-style radicals have been jailed for their roles in a Bristol riot, in which officers were attacked and vehicles were set on fire.

South Africa’s “looting death toll” from social unrest in the country’s eastern provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal reached 337 on Thursday, the Daily Maverick reported.

Duduzane Zuma, the son of jailed former South African President Jacob Zuma, pleaded Wednesday with rioters and looters currently ransacking two provinces to behave “responsibly” as they went about their mayhem.

Authorities have identified Kim Potter as the officer who apparently accidentally shot and killed Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday.

Bristol was plunged into another night of violence as clashes between riot police and leftist protesters on Friday evening saw officers attacked with makeshift missiles and fireworks.

Police clashed with protesters in Bristol on Tuesday evening at another #KillTheBill demonstration, following a similar protest turned riot on Sunday night.

Bristol was plunged into anarchy on Sunday night, as far-left rioters set fires, vandalised buildings and attacked police officers, as a protest against Home Secretary Priti Patel’s policing bill turned violent.

The protests were sparked by the imprisonment of a rapper who had insulted the monarchy and praised terrorism.

The Dutch government has denied it was planning to deploy the army to quell anti-corona-lockdown riots on Tuesday. 

A Los Angeles Times columnist wants President Joe Biden to seat a commission to investigate “MAGA terrorists” and the attack on the Capitol.

A left-wing group that claims to represent true Christian values launched a petition on Saturday asking for evangelical leader Franklin Graham to lose his job because he supported President Donald Trump.

The more than 25,000 law enforcment personnel that are being deployed in D.C. is five times the number of military in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the aftermath of some Trump supporters breaching the Capitol last week, new security measures have been put in place, causing complaints from some lawmakers.

Megan Rapinoe, captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team, said that the people who attacked the Capitol were a ‘white supremacy mob.’

The DOJ and the FBI are scouring the country for what it says are more than 170 suspects in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Federal law enforcement is investigating police officers in D.C. and in other states for allegedly participating in the Capitol protest.

Rep. Slotkin is asking military leaders to allow U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

The DOJ said this week four men from four states have been arrested and face charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Hundreds of angry workers held a demonstration Saturday at Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing near Bangalore, India, to protest unpaid wages and exploitative working conditions.

The Trump DOJ is working with Oregon law enforcement officials to arrest and prosecute violent rioters in Portland.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced Rep. Jim Banks’ (R-IN) legislation in the Senate on Monday that would eliminate convicted rioters’ federal unemployment benefits and have the rioters pay for the cost of federal policing of riots.

Stockholm (AP) — Far-right activists burned a Qur’an in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, sparking riots and unrest after more than 300 people gathered to protest, police said Saturday.

Kenosha Police said early Wednesday morning they are looking for a man allegedly armed with a long gun after two people were shot and killed overnight and a third injured during violent riots over the shooting of Jacob Blake.