Police kill two as Morocco’s youth-led protests escalate
Two people have been shot dead by police in Morocco as nationwide protests over poor public services intensify, marking the first fatalities since the...
A march by social organisations against Ecuador’s government ended in clashes with riot police in the capital on Thursday (11 September), as tensions rose over President Daniel Noboa’s proposed referendum.
Members of the Indigenous group CONAIE, the United Workers Front (FUT), the Ecuadorian Confederation of Free Trade Union Organisations (CEOSL), the National Union of Educators (UNE), and other civil society groups took to the streets to protest what they described as authoritarian and ineffective governance.
Riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators near the city centre.
Protesters criticised Noboa’s plan to spend $80 million on a national referendum, accusing him of pressuring the Constitutional Court and failing to address urgent issues such as unemployment, medicine shortages, and lack of school supplies.
"From the Indigenous movement, we demand that the Constitutional Court act in accordance with the Constitution and international treaties to guarantee democracy," said Ercilia Castañeda, Vice President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador.
On the same day, President Noboa led a pro-government march in Guayaquil, defending his security policies.
Noboa has been fighting criminal gangs linked to drug trafficking since January 2024, with support from the United States.
He blames these groups for a sustained rise in violent deaths this year.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Two people have been shot dead by police in Morocco as nationwide protests over poor public services intensify, marking the first fatalities since the unrest began last weekend.
Israel’s interception of several vessels of the Global Sumud flotilla carrying aid to Gaza has sparked global reactions and even protests in some countries as people condemn the act.
On 2nd October 2025, the Republic of Guinea marks the 67th anniversary of its historic independence from France, a momentous decision that reverberated across Africa and challenged the entire colonial order.
The Israeli embassy in London has condemned the attack on a Synagogue in Manchester that left three people dead including the attacker and four others injured on Thursday.
The Baku Initiative Group has been recognised in a UN report as the only NGO among global civil society actors advocating for decolonisation and island sovereignty.
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