Hong Kong is set to enact an emergency law to ban face masks at rallies, media reported on Thursday (October 3), as authorities grapple with nearly four months of anti-government protests. Watch this video to know more.

Hong Kong might ban face masks in bid to curb violence

Iraqi security forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who defied a curfew in Baghdad on Thursday (October 3) and exchanged fire with gunmen in a southern city, killing two people on the third day of nationwide anti-government protests. Watch this video to know more.

Protests in Iraq enters 3rd day: Death toll climbs to at least 34

Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move intended to quell escalating violence in the Chinese-ruled city.

Hong Kong: Carrie Lam invokes emergency powers to try to quell escalating violence

Hong Kong leader invokes emergency powers to try to quell escalating violence. Watch this video to know more.

Hong Kong leader invokes emergency powers to try to quell escalating violence

Death toll climbs to at least 34 in Iraq on third day of protests

Anti-government protests were organised in Nicaragua by pensioners in Central America in which at least 10 people have died in a clash between demonstrators and security forces

Nicaragua: at least 10 dead: authorities call for peace

Close to 21 people were reported dead with multiple injured in clashes that prompted the Iranian regime to temporarily block access to social media

US lawmakers condemn Iran's crackdown on protesters

Thousands are protesting the government's decriminalising of a string of corruption offences

Romania witnesses largest anti-government protests since fall of communism

Opposition demanded President Joseph Kabila's resignation, accusing him of plotting to extend his tenure by delaying elections

Congo anti-government march turns violent, at least 50 dead

Opposition groups from the Oromo, the main ethnic group in Ethiopia were protesting against the government and demanding freedom

7 dead as Ethiopian police and protesters clash