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More than 100 prison inmates have been killed and dozens more injured this week in one of the deadliest prison riots in Ecuadors history amid an ongoing turf war between rival gangs.

The video clip of a pro-democracy protester from the REDEM (Restore Democracy) group urinating on a riot police officer’s head has created quite a furore on social media.

Dutch rioters who attacked police and destroyed property over the weekend while protesting new coronavirus measures are "criminals," Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday, as law enforcement warned that the violence could last for weeks.

WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement officials are privately debating whether they should decline to charge some of the individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol this month - a politically loaded proposition but one alert to the practical concern that hundreds of such cases could swamp the local courthouse.

WASHINGTON - FBI agents are trying to determine whether some who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday intended to do more than cause havoc and disrupt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory, and they are sifting through evidence to see whether anyone wanted to kill or capture lawmakers or their staffers, according to people familiar with the investigation.

WASHINGTON - The top federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. said Thursday that President Donald Trump was not off limits in his investigation of the events surrounding Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying "all actors" would be examined to determine if they broke the law.

WASHINGTON - The world watched with dismay as a surreal scene at the U.S. Capitol, like little else seen in its history, unfolded Wednesday.

Police sealed off the vicinity of Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the early hours of Monday after violent overnight clashes with radical students and rioters holed up on university campus.

Hong Kongers on edge amid reports of evacuation of students from the mainland.

As rioting persisted in Hong Kong, President Xi Jinping on Thursday voiced the central government’s firm support for the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in leading the governance team to administer the city by rule of law. Xi also expressed firm support for the Hong Kong police in strictly enforcing the law and for the judiciary to punish violent criminals in accordance with the law.

The National Police have not yet confirmed reports of deaths during the riots following protests in front of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) headquarters in Central Jakarta on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, saying that they were still in the process of "checking."

A riot sparked by a bucket of water that was accidentally overturned left one dead in a Philippine jail notorious for its brutal overcrowding, an official said Saturday.