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“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.”

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).

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.

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.

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

A mob estimated to have attracted over 800 people stormed a police station in Punjab, Pakistan, this weekend, breached the building through a hole in the roof, and extracted a man arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy, beating him to death in public.

The government of Peru announced a crackdown on “narcoterrorism” on Monday following the massacre of seven police officers by Shining Path, a domestic Marxist terrorist organization that had largely ceased to exist since the 1990s.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva directly accused his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday of being involved in the riot that destroyed parts of the headquarters of all three branches of government on January 8.

Moscow waded into the controversy over a BBC documentary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, siding with Modi and his supporters by denouncing the documentary as part of the “information war” waged by Western media outlets against Russia as well as India.

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced on Sunday that she would soon present two proposals: to hold presidential elections this year, rather than in 2024 as planned, and “total” constitutional reform.

Haitian police rioted in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Thursday, blocking streets, burning tires, vandalizing vehicles, and attacking the residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R) declared a temporary state of emergency in Georgia on Thursday and activated 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops in response to recent anti-police protests and destructive riots in Atlanta.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (R) stated that most of the people who engaged in the riots in Atlanta over the weekend are from outside of the state of Georgia

Far-left protesters rioted in downtown Atlanta on Saturday evening, lighting a police car on fire and breaking business windows. 

A violent, radical leftist mob stormed Lima, Peru, on Thursday, demanding the interim president’s resignation in defense of communist former President Pedro Castillo, currently imprisoned for attempting to stage a coup.

Chile lost over $50 billion in investment cash between the beginning of violent leftist riots in 2019 and September 2022, Bloomberg reported on Thursday – and with a hardline socialist president, prospects for what was once Latin America’s most successful economy look bleak.

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo, citing Brasilia’s Health Department, reported on Wednesday that as many as 70 men arrested in relation to the January 8 anti-socialist riot in the nation’s capital had received doses of coronavirus vaccine products.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric is facing a lawsuit by lawmakers this week in response to his decision in December to pardon a former Marxist guerrilla member and several others imprisoned for participating in leftist riots between 2019 and 2021.

Peru’s top prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday it would launch a “genocide” and “homicide” inquiry against leftist President Dina Boluarte, her Prime Minister Alberto Otárola, and other members of her cabinet.

The head of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, ordered the removal of the governor of the nation’s Federal District (Brasília) for 90 days on Sunday evening.

National news outlets in Brazil, citing the federal police, reported on Monday that the riot resulting in the near-total destruction of the Congressional and Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) headquarters had led to over 1,500 arrests and dozens of injuries, including journalists.

Leftists in Brazil and the United States, where former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is believed to be staying following the end of his term, called for his extradition and arrest on Sunday following a massive mob attack that caused substantial damage to the headquarters of the country’s Congress and top court.

Thousands of opponents of socialist convicted felon President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stormed his offices and the headquarters of the Congress and Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil on Sunday, reportedly demolishing the facades of two of the three buildings and causing “irreparable” damage to priceless artifacts in the chambers.

A man who was praised for cleaning after last year’s Easter Qur’an riots by Swedish media has been arrested after being accused of rioting. 

Peru’s defense minister Jorge Chávez announced on Thursday that, according to intelligence reports, five Bolivian foreigners entered the country to incite violent leftist riots and promote separatism in the nation’s south.

Riots in Paris continued into their second day in the wake of a mass shooting at a Kurdish community centre on Friday.

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

A coalition of exasperated local business owners in Santa Monica, California, has hung a sign on the iconic 3rd Street Promenade: “Santa Monica Is NOT Safe: CRIME… DEPRAVITY… OUTDOOR MENTAL ASYLUM.”