• BBC

    Chaotic build-up to Eurovision as thousands protest

    The Eurovision Song Contest has seen a chaotic build-up towards Saturday's

  • Hunter High evacuated due to bomb threat

    WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, May 15, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Hunter High School was evacuated of remaining students and teachers Wednesday, after the school day had ended, because of a bomb threat. Most people already had left the campus, in West Valley City, Principal Ryan Oaks said in a statement he issued. “Out of an […] The post Hunter High evacuated due to bomb threat first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • CA colleges are once again seeing campus buildings being taken over by protesters

    University of California, Berkley Chancellor Carol Christ released a letter to the college's encampment, offering compliments to the group for maintaining a "professional, organized, and productive approach during a very difficult time." After the chancellor's letter was released, campus occupiers took over a school building in order to "escalate for Gaza." Protesters took over a building to 'avenge' Al Shifa hospital and to show their disapproval of disbanding the official encampment over...

  • Three arrests in fourth night of pro-Palestine protests

    Riot police were again drafted in to disperse some 2,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators who had gathered on the Spui in the city centre on Thursday evening after marching through town. However, the demonstration ended peacefully after the organisers urged the protestors themselves to go home, following two-minutes silence for the victims of the war in Gaza, local broadcaster AT5 reported. “This was a peaceful demonstration,” the spokesman said. “We want our demonstrations to be peaceful we are not...

  • Fire breaks out in three-storey building in Delhi, one missing

    New Delhi, May 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) A massive fire was reported at a three-storey building in northeast Delhi on Monday, said a fire department official, adding that one person is missing. Sharing the details, police said - Social News XYZ

    • KTLA

    Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy building at U.C. Irvine

    Police are responding to the campus of the University of California, Irvine, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators have overtaken a building and built a barricaded encampment. Video streamed to the I

  • Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire

    Fort McMurray residents in neighbouring Alberta, Canada are also under an evacuation alert due to a blaze.

    • CP24

    Fort McMurray under evacuation alert due to out-of-control wildfire nearby

    An evacuation alert has been issued in Alberta for Fort McMurray as an out-of-control wildfire burns nearby. Residents in the northern oilsands hub and the nearby community of Saprae Creek are being told to be ready to leave on short notice. Alberta Wildfire says the blaze is about 16 kilometres southwest of Fort McMurray. It said in the late afternoon that the wildfire was about two square kilometres in size, but by early evening that had grown to 10 square kilometres. Fort McMurray...

  • UCLA alleges protesters arrested Monday had tools to barricade buildings

    UCLA police say protesters arrested Monday at a university garage had materials that could be "used to unlawfully enter and barricade a building." In a news release Wednesday, campus police said some of those arrested had "heavy-duty metal pipes, bolt cutters, epoxy adhesive, super glue, padlocks [and] heavy-duty chains," as well as literature "encouraging vandalism and violence." Police said they'd seized a copy of the "The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide." UCLA has faced criticism for the...

  • Over 50 people evacuated after fire hits 4-story building in Hanoi

    The building is located at 1174 Lang Street in Dong Da District and offers billiards, fitness, and game services

    • SFGate

    Officers clearing out pro-Palestinian protesters from abandoned UC Berkeley building

    UPDATE May 16 8:54 p.m. Officers have arrested at least 11 pro-Palestinian protesters who had been occupying a vacant building owned by UC Berkeley, KTVU reported Thursday night. May 16, 7:52 p.m. UC Berkeley police and other law enforcement officers began clearing out pro-Palestinian protesters from an abandoned building near People's Park, KTVU reported Thursday evening. According to NBC Bay Area, officers arrested protesters who had been occupying Anna Head complex near People's Park on...

  • Cambridge University students graduate at alternative location due to Gaza protest camp

    The university departed from tradition by staging ceremonies away from Senate House