https://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-police-france-protesting-023135334.html

Bamako (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-French protesters took to the streets of Mali's capital on Friday waving Russian flags and burning cardboard cut-outs of French President Emmanuel Macron in celebration of the expulsion of France's envoy in Bamako.

Mali expelled the French ambassador last week over what the country's transitional government described as "hostile and outrageous" comments by the former colonial power.

https://news.yahoo.com/thousands-streets-bamako-anti-french-202124031.html

SRINAGAR, India — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said they arrested a prominent journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content,” in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region.

Fahad Shah, the editor of news portal Kashmir Walla, was summoned for questioning in southern Pulwama town on Friday and later arrested.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kashmir-journalist-arrested-indias-anti-terror-law-rcna15056

Angry job seekers torched trains and set tires alight in northeastern India this week out of frustration over widespread unemployment and what many applicants say is an unfair recruitment process in the country’s huge railway sector.

The protests, in which young people obstructed rail traffic, were a violent expression of disillusionment with one of the world’s largest employers.

Photos showed flames billowing from rail cars in the northeastern state of Bihar and hundreds of people walking across train tracks there. Protesters in Patna, the state capital, burned tires and blocked roads Friday in a strike called by student associations.

The violent scenes have drawn attention to the joblessness that was worsening in India even before the coronavirus pandemic, as young people — particularly educated ones — struggled to find employment. Many are left helping their families with unpaid domestic tasks as they prepare to compete for a relatively small number of government jobs, according to the BBC.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/28/protesters-railway-jobs-bihar/

BAUTZEN, Germany — Among the crowd who gathered to protest the German government’s pandemic policies at a medieval square in the old town of Bautzen on a recent icy Monday evening were a gaggle of first-time demonstrators.

A 16-year-old nursing student said new German mandates on vaccinations for health-care workers, due to come into force in the spring, had gotten her out on the streets. Others said they just wanted to be able to meet at a cafe to drink coffee with friends — now not possible in Germany for the unvaccinated unless they recently had the coronavirus.

“We feel left out of society,” said Stephanie Handrick, 37, who was demonstrating for the first time with her mother, Karin, 62.

Protests in Germany — the majority in the form of Monday evening “walks” — are growing. According to official estimates, there were 1,700 demonstrations across the country in the third week of January alone, drawing around 400,000 people, said a security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/30/coronavirus-anti-vaccine-germany/

Hundreds of people in Istanbul marched to the Greek consulate on Saturday to protest the deaths of 19 migrants near Turkey's border with Greece.

Turkish authorities said they froze to death earlier this week after being illegally pushed back across the border by Greek guards. Athens has firmly rejected the accusation.

The demonstration, organised by Turkish humanitarian groups, saw about 300 protesters walk to the consulate near one of Istanbul's main shopping streets behind a banner reading "Close borders to racism, open to humanity".

Dozens of riot police stood by as aid workers addressed the crowd.

"People were stripped of their clothes and their belongings were taken. They were left to die and the whole world remains silent about this," said Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, chairman of IHH, a humanitarian aid group.

He called on the European Parliament to "take action on this issue as soon as possible and stop this cruel attitude that commits these crimes against humanity".

https://www.euronews.com/2022/02/05/left-to-die-protesters-in-istanbul-condemn-migrant-deaths-near-border-with-greece?utm_source=microsoft&utm_campaign=feeds_news&utm_medium=referral

RIO DE JANEIRO — Demonstrators gathered on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities to protest the killing of a 24-year-old Congolese refugee who was beaten to death on Jan. 24, and which sparked outrage and revulsion across the nation.

In Rio, they gathered outside the same beach kiosk where Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe had recently been working in Barra da Tijuca, a neighborhood known for its upmarket condominiums and shopping malls.

The two lanes in front of the kiosk were covered with banners featuring images and photos of Moïse. Some of the signs were attached to the sound truck. One of them, held by more than 10 people, beside an image of the dead young man’s face, said “Justice for Moïse. Black lives matter! Stop killing us!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/demonstrators-protest-killing-of-congolese-refugee-in-brazil/2022/02/05/4529db06-86cc-11ec-951c-1e0cc3723e53_story.html

A video showing dozens of trucks driving through a town and honking was shared thousands of times alongside claims it shows Italian truckers inspired by a convoy of Canadians who drove to Ottawa in 2022 to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates. This is false; the video was taken in September 2021 during a city festival in the Piedmont region of Italy.

"First it was Canada, and now Italy," says the text above a video shared on Facebook in late January 2022.

In the video, also shared here, dozens of trucks are seen slowly parading through a city street, honking along the way under the enthusiastic watch of locals.

Screenshot of Facebook post taken on February 3, 2022

The timing of the post and the caption suggest that the Italian event is imitating a convoy of Canadian truckers who drove, some from as far as the western province of British Columbia, to protest in the capital Ottawa

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.9XZ7VR