Street Barricades

Residents in the upscale neighborhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince barricaded themselves in their homes on Wednesday, local media reported, citing heavy gunfire and bodies found on the street.

The City of Joy is now the city of containment zones. From north to south, large parts of Kolkata are barricaded with residents unable to get in or out. Burra Bazar, eastern India's biggest trading centre, may be shut down as it is proving to be a key area of the coronavirus spread. The number of new cases in West Bengal on Saturday was 108, a litt...

The video of a BJP protest rally against Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan gave rise to much mirth on Twitter on Sunday, with many wondering if the party was trolling itself. As part of a statewide protest over the prohibitory orders banning large gatherings around the hill shrine of Sabarimala on Sunday, the BJP held a black-flag protest at A...

The Gandhis and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi this morning for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament. As a way of courting arrest, the Congress bosses forced their way past barricades after holding a rally against the government.

Curfews, street barricades and armed police everywhere: the unrest in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast is likely to have an impact on the upcoming election but it also risks spelling a defeat for democracy.

Istanbul went into a security lockdown on today as thousands of Turkish police manned barricades and closed off streets to traffic to stop May Day rallies at the central Taksim Square, a symbolic point for anti-government protests.

In the street leading to the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris, people trickle in steadily to pay tributes. The mound of flowers grows against the barricade put up by the police to block the scene of crime on Wednesday, 12 people were shot dead in an attack on the office of the satirical magazine by three armed men wearing black masks and hoodies...

Hong Kong authorities cleared barricades today from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

Hong Kong riot police arrested 80 pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday in running clashes after several thousand demonstrators erected street barricades following clearance of part of a protest hotspot.

Hong Kong police made fresh attempts on Tuesday to unblock streets that have been occupied for two weeks by pro-democracy protesters, removing more barricades a day after clashes broke out as opponents of the protest movement tried to reclaim roads.

A deadline for pro-democracy demonstrators to clear Hong Kong's barricaded streets loomed Sunday, after overnight clashes with riot police, as the city's Beijing-backed leader claimed the disorder now risked "serious consequences" for public safety.

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day.

Central Hong Kong descended into chaos on Sunday as chanting pro-democracy protesters converged on police barricades surrounding their colleagues despite the territory's leader calling for a halt to "illegal" demonstrations.

Participants encountered barricades and a heavy police presence as they tried to stream onto Wall Street, home to the New York Stock Exchange, after several hours of demonstrating by the bull statue nearby.

Crowds are cheering and celebrating in the streets after Liberian authorities reopened a slum where tens of thousands of people were barricaded amid the country's Ebola outbreak.

Residents in the upscale neighborhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince barricaded themselves in their homes on Wednesday, local media reported, citing heavy gunfire and bodies found on the street.

The City of Joy is now the city of containment zones. From north to south, large parts of Kolkata are barricaded with residents unable to get in or out. Burra Bazar, eastern India's biggest trading centre, may be shut down as it is proving to be a key area of the coronavirus spread. The number of new cases in West Bengal on Saturday was 108, a litt...

The video of a BJP protest rally against Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan gave rise to much mirth on Twitter on Sunday, with many wondering if the party was trolling itself. As part of a statewide protest over the prohibitory orders banning large gatherings around the hill shrine of Sabarimala on Sunday, the BJP held a black-flag protest at A...

The Gandhis and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh were briefly detained at a police station in Delhi this morning for defying orders as they tried to march towards Parliament. As a way of courting arrest, the Congress bosses forced their way past barricades after holding a rally against the government.

Curfews, street barricades and armed police everywhere: the unrest in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast is likely to have an impact on the upcoming election but it also risks spelling a defeat for democracy.

Istanbul went into a security lockdown on today as thousands of Turkish police manned barricades and closed off streets to traffic to stop May Day rallies at the central Taksim Square, a symbolic point for anti-government protests.

In the street leading to the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris, people trickle in steadily to pay tributes. The mound of flowers grows against the barricade put up by the police to block the scene of crime on Wednesday, 12 people were shot dead in an attack on the office of the satirical magazine by three armed men wearing black masks and hoodies...

Hong Kong authorities cleared barricades today from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

Hong Kong riot police arrested 80 pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday in running clashes after several thousand demonstrators erected street barricades following clearance of part of a protest hotspot.

Hong Kong police made fresh attempts on Tuesday to unblock streets that have been occupied for two weeks by pro-democracy protesters, removing more barricades a day after clashes broke out as opponents of the protest movement tried to reclaim roads.

A deadline for pro-democracy demonstrators to clear Hong Kong's barricaded streets loomed Sunday, after overnight clashes with riot police, as the city's Beijing-backed leader claimed the disorder now risked "serious consequences" for public safety.

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day.

Central Hong Kong descended into chaos on Sunday as chanting pro-democracy protesters converged on police barricades surrounding their colleagues despite the territory's leader calling for a halt to "illegal" demonstrations.

Participants encountered barricades and a heavy police presence as they tried to stream onto Wall Street, home to the New York Stock Exchange, after several hours of demonstrating by the bull statue nearby.

Crowds are cheering and celebrating in the streets after Liberian authorities reopened a slum where tens of thousands of people were barricaded amid the country's Ebola outbreak.