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TEHRAN — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported Sunday that a court has handed down prison sentences for 13 protesters arrested during the August 2017 demonstrations over economic hardships.

Google has reportedly been urging the U.S. government to “limit protection” for its protesting employees, allegedly attempting to quell employee organizing efforts via company email, following several large protests over alleged company protection of sexual harassers.

The socialist dictatorship in Venezuela has killed at least 14 people and potentially closer to 20 since widespread protests broke out this week, culminating in the swearing in of President Juan Guaidó, replacing dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Chinese police reportedly arrested a man for delivering a public speech in Chongqing demanding that Communist Party leader Xi Jinping resign, Radio Free Asia (RFA) confirmed on Monday.

Reports suggest that at least eight people have died in protests against skyrocketing gasoline prices in Zimbabwe as of this Wednesday, which continued into the day despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly claiming the demonstrations were “fizzling out.”

A graphic video surfaced on social media Wednesday showing a Venezuelan military tank in Maracaibo, Zulia state, chasing and attempting to run over a journalist covering protests against the socialist government. 

French President Emmanuel Macron used his New Year’s televised address to lash out at the populist Yellow Vest protestors who have taken to the streets through November and December to oppose his globalist policies, accusing them of anti-Semitism and other defects.

Mongolians enraged by multiple corruption scandals filled the streets of the capital to protest on Thursday even though temperatures fell below zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Violent protests broke out in the Tunisian city of Kasserine on Tuesday after a journalist self-immolated, allegedly to trigger a revolution.

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China’s state-run Global Times announced the arrest Sunday of ten individuals for participating in a protest urging the Communist Party to issue promised pensions to veterans of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in October.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to speak to the nation at last, after increasingly violent protests against his leadership.

The French government on Sunday urged Donald Trump not to interfere in French politics after the president posted tweets about the protests rocking the country and attacked the Paris climate agreement.

France’s state officials have criticised the executive government for its disconnect with the French people, saying it has underestimated the grievances that have fed the Yellow Jacket movement.

Brexit architect Nigel Farage has condemned France’s President Emmanuel Macron for spending more time “virtue signalling” to the world than connecting with his own people, which he said has resulted in the escalation of violence at Yellow Vest protests.

An 80-year-old woman has died after she was hit in the face with tear gas grenade pellets during Yellow Vest protests in Marseille, France.

As the Gilets Jaunes protests in France catch fire, French President Emmanuel Macron is heading for his green Waterloo. And really, humiliation, defeat and — with luck — exile somewhere really remote just couldn’t happen to a more deserving candidate.

More than one hundred ambulance drivers protested in Paris early Monday morning, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron faces mounting pressure from populous movements inspired by the Yellow Jackets.

Allies of French president Emmanuel Macron say they have yet to grasp why protesters are “seething anger” over the government’s plans to hike gas prices, while one lawmaker worries the “crisis” runs deeper than the cost of fuel.

PARIS (AFP) — The popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron has dropped to just 25 per cent, according to a major tracker poll published on Sunday.

One female protester has died in France after a woman drove into a crowd blocking the road, the driver allegedly in a panic as she was trying to get to daughter to the hospital.

Supporters of Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro mocked supporters of socialist rival Fernando Haddad on Sunday evening, urging them to move to Cuba if they prefer a leftist government.

Bill Cassidy said a mother who brought her two children to anti-Kavanaugh protests in Washington, DC, was “using them as a prop.”

Mobs chasing Trump allies out of restaurants may have convinced some Trump supporters to stay at home in September.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela is now focused on repressing protests relating to widespread hunger rather than their political opposition to his leadership, as his government seeks to retain a level of credibility on the international stage. 

Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela arrested nurses and doctors across the country this weekend for repeatedly protesting the lack of medicine and essential resources required for them to treat their patients.

Marco Noel Novoa survived over a week of intense torture in a Nicaraguan prison, exacerbated by the communist regime knowing his status as a U.S. citizen and fearing he was working for the CIA. In remarks to Breitbart News this week, Novoa says the violence against pro-democracy student protesters like himself continues, even if international media attention has waned.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) once again defended the protesters who have disrupted Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, calling them “one of the costs of democracy.”

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has carefully crafted an image of himself as a big-picture visionary, tasked with turning China into the world’s preeminent superpower. While Xi has focused on taking over the world, however, the average Chinese citizen appears increasingly frustrated with his inability to provide competent government functions like adequate education and health care.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended the protests that interrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the “noise of democracy” — minutes after admitting that he and fellow Democrats had coordinated disruptions to the hearing.