Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Saturday cracked down hard on the news media, deporting some foreign journalists reporting in the country and revoking the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists.
Roughly a thousand people gathered Saturday in Kenosha for a march and rally against police violence, about a week after an officer shot Jacob Blake in the back and left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed.
The violence followed the burning on Friday afternoon of a Qur'an, near a predominantly migrant neighbourhood, that was carried out by far-right activists and filmed and posted online, according to local media.
A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy has issued urgent calls for help, saying it is stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants it has been unable to bring ashore.
Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations.
Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the country, officials said.
Thirteen people were killed in China after a two-storey restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday morning, state media said.
German police, who deployed 3,000 officers to control crowds expected to reach 20,000, have prepared for possible violence as activists opposed to coronavirus lockdown measures urge social media followers across Europe to arm themselves and gather in Berlin.
