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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel stands guard at the entrance of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, August 23, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Sahiba Chawdhary/File Photo
South Asia

Protesters block train tracks, buses in eastern India

Police fired tear-gas and water cannon to disperse protesters marching towards the state secretariat on Tuesday, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to call...

Members and supporters of Sri Lanka's opposition the National People's Power Party march towards Colombo from Beruwala, during a protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
South Asia

Thousands of Sri Lankans rally over government handling of crisis

NYPD officers face demonstrators after curfew during a protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in New York City, US, June 2, 2020/ Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Earlier coronavirus second wave feared in Europe after mass protests