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President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday scrapped an official trip to Germany after a fourth straight night of rioting and looting across France.

Images of French President Macron partying with pop star Elton John as he country experienced urban violence have been cited by his critics.

France considers state of emergency after hundreds of arrests and injured police officers, and thousands of fires including town halls.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was turned back by police when he tried to enter the violence-torn state of Manipur by truck.

Paris struck by major violence overnight as residents protest the shooting of a teenager by police, with major deployment expected tonight.

The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an urgent plea to dispatch troops to the province of Manipur, where Christian mountain-dwelling tribes are clashing with lowland Hindus.

Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that its consulates overseas will be temporarily closed following “a series of aggressions that caused serious damage.”

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday that his government is considering a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party of Imran Khan.

Mayhem broke out in a Cardiff suburb as rioters attacked police and torched cars following the death of two local teenage boys.

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been clashing with the government of his successor, Shehbaz Sharif, as he tries to return to power while dodging about a hundred corruption investigations, said on Wednesday he expects to be arrested again.

Julio Rosas, a senior writer for Townhall news who provided front-line coverage of the Black Lives Matter riots, slammed Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) in Congress on Tuesday after the latter mocked his journalism credentials.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his country’s diversity as “the nation’s real strength” and celebrated the nation’s northeast in a letter published Monday amid ongoing anti-Christian riots that have displaced tens of thousands of people in northeast Manipur.

Riots in northeastern India’s state of Manipur have killed 62 people over the past week and driven some 35,000 from their homes.

Journalists in Pakistan reported at least six deaths and ongoing, massive destruction of property nationwide on Wednesday in nearly every major city following the arrest of radical Islamist former Prime Minister Imran Khan the day before.

In a sign that the protests against Macron do not appear to be going away, some 782,000 people poured onto the streets of France on Monday.

A disturbing video shows a mob of teenagers beating a helpless woman in Chicago during the riots that occurred in the Loop over the weekend. 

The mayor-elect of Chicago, Illinois, said that while he does not condone violence, “it is not constructive to demonize” the teens who participated in four nights of violent rioting.

French protesters reportedly piled trash outside France’s Constitutional Court on Thursday as anti-Macron riots in the country continue.

Northern Ireland saw youths pelt police vehicles with petrol bombs during sectarian disorder on the 25th anniversary of the peace agreement.

France remains in a state of chaos on Tuesday as the 10th straight day of union strikes is marked by fuel-pump shortages and government infighting.

Former French President François Hollande has blamed his successor, Emmanuel Macron, for the ongoing riots in France.

“You’re so lucky to be sitting there, now that we’ve arrested you,” one officer was reportedly recorded saying. “I swear, I’d have broken your legs, literally. I can tell you, we’ve broken elbows and faces… but you, I’d have broken your legs.”

Five people have been arrested by French police after the doors to the city hall of Bordeaux were set on fire on Thursday evening amid ongoing country-wide protests against increasing the state pension age.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the pension bill he pushed through without a vote needs to be implemented by the “end of the year”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has “trampled on democracy” amid ongoing protests by forcing bills through parliament without a vote, an EU MP has claimed.

A North Carolina bill, designed to increase penalties for rioting, will become law without the signature of Gov. Roy Cooper (D).

France has yet to see real violence amid the ongoing anti-Macron riots happening in the country, France’s answer to Bernie Sanders has told journalists.

Paris saw its third straight night of violent chaos, with clashes breaking out between the police and the people and fires being set across the French capital, as President Macron claimed he “has no regrets” about sparking the largest mass mobilisation since the Yellow Vests after he used a loophole to pass through his retirement age raise without a vote.

Hundreds of arrests were made in Paris as riots sprung up after the government invoked a loophole to pass its controversial pension reform.

The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.

The high court in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday ordered security forces to withdraw from the home of former prime minister Imran Khan, ending a standoff with a mob of his supporters that began when the police made their second attempt to serve an arrest warrant.

Riots and economically damaging activist actions broke out in France amid large protests against President Macron’s pension reforms.

An attorney with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that frequently lists mainstream conservatives alongside hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), has been charged with domestic terrorism after allegedly rioting with Antifa in Atlanta.

Thirty-five people were arrested after a domestic terrorist attack on a construction site in Democrat-run Atlanta, Georgia.

Peru’s communist former President Pedro Castillo made a formal request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) — an autonomous entity of the Organization of American States (OAS) — on Tuesday for his immediate release from prison and reinstatement as Peru’s head of state.

Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police on Friday in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. Several dozen of the protesters were able to force their way into the National Assembly building, but were driven back with tear gas, while others burned and looted shops across the city. The United Nations expressed concerns on Monday that more violence could be in store, possibly building into an effort to overthrow President Chandrikapersad Santokhi.