MPs will vote on the government’s planned reforms to welfare later – with dozens of Labour MPs still planning to vote against them, despite concessions from ministers. The Conservatives have said they will oppose the plans as they are not “serious reforms”. The rebellion’s scale has ebbed and flowed. Last week, more than 120 Labour...
Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform. The government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days in the north-western Bocas del Toro province. The measure restricts freedom of movement and allows the police to...
Catherine Doyle & Claire Graham BBC News NI BBC Police are coming under attack in disturbances in Portadown for the second night There was disorder in Portadown for the second night in a row but at a lower level than seen earlier this week. Fireworks, bricks and bottles have been thrown at police in the...
The BBC’s Carl Nasman in Los Angeles explains how an increase in immigration raids as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort has sparked protests in cities across the US. After some turned violent, President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops as well as hundreds of US Marines to LA to maintain...
US President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen in Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. His border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday: “We are making Los Angeles safer.” The Californian city saw a second day of unrest on Saturday as residents of a predominantly Latino district...
AFP The spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze community condemned the violence as an “unjustifiable genocidal campaign” Deadly clashes between Islamist armed factions, security forces and fighters from the Druze religious minority near Damascus are another sign of the continuing fragility of the security situation in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Outside players have...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Guy De Launey Balkans correspondent Getty Images President Aleksandar Vucic rallied his supporters in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade Tens of thousands of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s supporters have held a rally in Belgrade following months of unrest across the country. A monitoring organisation said around 55,000 people had gathered in front of...