- At least 26 protesters were killed and more than 550 were injured, hundreds by gunshot, when security forces fired live bullets and tear gas at a massive demonstration in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday.
- At least 3,000 Moroccans demonstrated on Sunday calling for greater political freedoms, as the country’s pro-democracy movement attempted to regain momentum lost over the summer.
- Environmental activists gathered in Hartmann Park in east Houston Sunday to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to more pollution in smog-filled Houston.
- About 50 women in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, donned miniskirts to protest remarks by the Jakarta city governor who blamed a recent gang rape on the victim’s choice of clothing.
- In Poland, a mass anti-austerity protest called by unions took to the streets Saturday, as EU ministers cut short talks on the eurozone debt crisis a day after Washington told them to end their bickering.
- In a fresh indication of growing public anger over pollution, hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Sunday were camped outside a solar panel manufacturing plant that stands accused of contaminating a nearby river.
- Men, women and children from Somalia’s Saydika displaced camp took to the streets to protest the lack of basic necessities like proper shelter, food and water.
- Friday Prayer in northern Paris drew a small but angry protest against a ban on street prayer.
