The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about the arrests of dozens of women, and reported that two people were killed in protests organized to support them.
Housing debates often involve theatrics. But when a group of actors, many of whom are renters, discovered they had been hired to join a pro-landlord demonstration, several said they felt deceived.
New York City actors who responded to a casting call asking for people to portray zombies found upon arrival that they would be marching to protest a proposed rent freeze on rent-stabilized homes.
Two stabbings have fueled violent protests in England and Northern Ireland in the last 10 days, fanned online by right-wing voices. In Britain and across Europe, it’s a grim pattern.