Demonstrations

Almost 1,900 people have now been detained amid the largest anti-government protests in the country in more than a decade.

Protesters have taken to the streets in recent days after the arrest of a leading political opponent to Türkiye's longtime leader Tayyip Erdoğan.

The arrest of one of President Tayyip Erdogan's high-profile political rivals has sparked the biggest street protests in the country in more than a decade.

The Istanbul mayor has been arrested. Hundreds of thousands of protesters are swarming the streets of Türkiye. How did we get here?

The decision to send Mr Imamoglu to jail comes after the main opposition party, European leaders and tens of thousands of protesters criticised the actions against him as politicised and undemocratic.

The Israeli prime minister is facing fierce protests over his decision to launch fresh strikes in Gaza, shattering the ceasefire in the strip.

Farmers pushed to the brink by drought have joined the state opposition on the steps of Adelaide's Parliament House calling for more government action.

Serbian officials have denied the country’s security forces used a long range acoustic device to disperse and scare protesters. 

Wearing symbolic white helmets and waving "Stop the Steal" flags, the young men of the "white skull squad" are back on the streets of South Korea and wanting the US to intervene in their country's democracy.

The parliament's speaker says one politician has been left in a critical condition after suffering a stroke during the chaos, which comes amid mass anti-government protests in the country.

Sounding somewhere between a wailing ghost or howling wolves, strange and disconcerting noises drift over the border from North Korea into South Korea — sometimes all day.

From protesting for LGBT rights in the first Mardi Gras to coming out on YouTube, broadcaster Julie McCrossin, 70, and YouTuber Lauren Elloise, 27, talk about being a lesbian in the past and present. 

Burmese Australian activist Hnin Win never really understood her father until after Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government.

Organisers of Melbourne's pro-Palestine rallies will now focus on monthly demonstrations as Gaza ceasefire deal comes under threat.

The Queensland government announced the pause last month, alongside a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria.

Organisers of Melbourne's Invasion Day rally say they have no plans to disrupt the Australian Open, and misinformation suggesting they did has caused "harm and distress".

Victoria's premier has called for "peace" on Melbourne's streets after a ceasefire began in Gaza over the weekend, but organisers of the city's weekly pro-Palestinian protest say they believe there is a need to continue.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, with many saying the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal does not go far enough.

The protest was in reaction to recent news that global temperatures in 2024 had exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time.

In a rare protest, a group of people have clashed with police outside a vocational school in China's northwestern Shaanxi province, where a student died earlier this month.