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Climate activists hurl mashed potatoes over Claude Monet's masterpiece
To protest fossil fuel extraction, climate protestors flung mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German gallery today, but the artwork was unharmed.
Last Generation protestors attacked Monet's Les Meules in Potsdam's Barberini Museum and threw a viscous substance over...
A Political Activist Sentenced to Two Years in Prison After Defaming the Monarchy in Thailand
On Friday, a political activist was sentenced to 2 years in prison by a court in Thailand, as he violated a law that set punishment for those who defamed the monarchy, in this case by putting a sticker on a portrait of the king of the country.
Ever since the prosecutions were revived un...
8 HONG KONG DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS FREED FROM CHINESE JAIL
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- 8 Hong Kong democracy activists freed from Chinese jail.
- The activists were jailed in China last year after being captured at sea.
- Chinese court had sentenced 10 of the 12 to between seven months and three years in jail.<...
BORIS JOHNSON: UNITED KINGDOM WILL BECOME GLOBAL ACTIVIST AFTER BREXIT
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- Boris Johnson said that, United Kingdom is going to become a global activist after the Brexit
- The premier is going to be publishing a blueprint for the defense and diplomacy
Boris Johnson, who is the prime minister of the...
HONG KONG PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST TED HUI ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA
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- Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui arrives in Australia.
- The Australian government assisted Hui with flights and made an exemption with its closed border policy.
- Hui left Hong Kong due to criminal charges over the 2...
HONG KONG PETITIONERS OF GERMANY URGED FOR SAFE CITY
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- Activists who appealed to Berlin to put sanctions on China over Hong Kong's political crackdown have called for genuine activity after the German parliament heard their requests on Monday
Rights activists Glacier Kwong and David ...
HEALTH MINISTRY ASKED TO LOOK INTO ADOPTION AGENCY’S ROLE IN ABUSE DEATH CASE
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- Health Ministry asked to look into adoption agency’s role in abuse death case.
- S. Korea’s Children’s Rights activists came forward and urged the same to the ministry.
- The activists also demanded Hol...
HONG KONG PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS UNDER SEARCH FOR VIOLATION OF NATONAL SECURITY LAW
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- Hong Kong pro-democracy activists under search for violation of National Security Law.
- Hong Kong former lawmakers Ted Hui Chi Fung and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chunh Hang.
- Around 30 pro-democracy activists are being searched f...
SAUDI ACTIVIST LOUJAIN AL HATHOUL INQUIRY PASSED ON TO TERRORISM COURT
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- Al-Hathloul, 31, has been in Saudi since spring 2018 and accused of wrongdoings incorporating helping out anonymous unfamiliar substances to hurt the realm, and speaking with unfamiliar columnists, representatives, and basic freedoms gatherings ...
HONG KONG ACTIVIST HELD CAPTIVE AND CHARGED WITH SECESSION
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- A Hong Kong court denied bail to lobbyist Tony Chung, an ex-convenor of favorable to democracy group called Studentlocalism, who turned into the subsequent individual to be accused of secession under the Beijing-forced public security law on Thursday&...
THUNBERG, A SWEDISH ACTIVIST BACKED, RETURN OF HONG KONG YOUTHS CAPTURED BY CHINA
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- Great Thunberg, a well-known Swedish climate activist took to social media as a part of a web-based crusade asking to release Hong Kong youths confined in territory China
The mission pointed towards spreading about the activists, app...
TOPLESS ACTIVISTS CHARGED WITH VANDALISM IN PUBLIC PREMISES IN SYDNEY
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- Five topless Extinction Rebellion dissidents have been charged, and blamed for raging a structure in Sydney's CBD before splashing paint inside and endeavored to stick themselves to the windows
Two of the activists, Deanna Maree ...
HONG KONG ACTIVISTS LIT NEON LIGHTS TO MARK THE 12 ACTIVISTS JAILED IN CHINA
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- Hong Kong activists pointed lasers from protest spot Lion Rock on Monday night, to focus light on the 12 absconders confined in territory China for a supposed unlawful border crossing
China's coastguard blocked a speedboat set ou...
DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST MS. KWONG IS FEARFUL OF HER LIFE IF SHE LANDS IN HONG KONG
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- Glacier Kwong, a digital rights activist said from Germany, where she resides nowadays that she fears getting back to Hong Kong, as she began signing a petition approaching Berlin to force sanctions against China
She says, she loves ...
HONG KONG ACTIVISTS REACH COURT FOR VIOLATION OF TIANENMEN VIGIL GATHERING
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- Two dozen Hong Kong pro democrats showed up in court on Tuesday to hear charges of participating to commemorate the crackdown on dissenters on June 4 famously known as Tiananmen Vigil of 1989*.
In all this ...
ASIAN BEARS IN ILLEGAL CAPTIVITY IN KOREA; HARMING ITS SPECIES
- Last month it was got to the notice about people who illegally killed Asian black bears, an endangered species, and even consumed their meat.
- This is not been a long time with Asian black bears still being illegally reared and raised on farms in inadequate conditions, and...
Air travelers encouraged to shift to other modes of transport
The 16-years old Greta Thunberg who is a Swedish climate activist, protests in Stockholm during the Global Strike for Future movement on a global day of student marches targeting to spark world leaders into action on Jonathan Nackstrand. Every summer, at Paris or Farnborough the aviation world ga...