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French demonstrators protest approval of same-sex marriage
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Paris against France’s gay marriage law that allows homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, March 24, 2013.
Tens of thousands of French conservatives and activists have marched through the streets of Paris to protest French legislation allowing same-sex marriage.
Protesters on Sunday rallied on a route leading to the Champs Elysees after police...
Researchers grow natural teeth from epithelial cells
Researchers from King’s College London have achieved a breakthrough method during which they can grow real teeth from a person’s own gum cells.
The study published the Journal of Dental Research is first major advance in developing a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth.
Researchers isolated some cells from adult human gum (gingival) tissue from patients and grew...
Russian activists sue US to take Alaska back
Alaska’s capital city of Juneau
A group of Russian Orthodox activists have filed a lawsuit against Washington aimed at taking back the state of Alaska from the US and returning it to Russia as the latter country’s sovereign territory.
The ultraconservative religious group Pchyolki (Bees) filed the complaint in a Moscow arbitration court, in response to US President Barack Obama’s support for...
Guantanamo Bay prisoners on hunger strike out of despair
Prisoners in the U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on a hunger strike for a month out of despair over the lack of prospects for a release. Nearly the entire camp is on strike, with the exception of the elderly and the sick. Many prisoners are in critical condition and are fed through a tube. “The list of Guantanamo” is active, and Russia should not care how it is treated in the...
1000s of students demonstrate in Madrid against education cuts
Thousands of students demonstrate in Madrid to protest against Spanish government’s spending cuts in the education system, February 6, 2013.
Thousands of students and teachers have demonstrated in the Spanish capital Madrid to protest against the government’s budget cuts in the education sector.
Carrying flags and banners that read “Our education will not pay your debt,” the demonstrators...
Femen activists get naked in Notre Dame to mark Pope's resignation
Eight Femen activists undressed and flashed their breasts inside the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The notorious female group marked Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation in typically scandalous and blasphemous fashion.
The Ukrainian feminazis entered the Gothic cathedral on Tuesday dressed in long coats, before disrobing near the altar. The bodies of the activists were painted with slogans...
Thousands of Europeans demand end to Austerity
A trade union representative gives a speech in Brussels, Belgium, against austerity policies on March 14, 2013.
Thousands of Europeans have staged a rally near the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels to protest against anti-austerity measures.
About 15,000 protesters and trade union representatives from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and other European Union countries gathered in the Belgium...
Argentinians petition against UK referendum on Falkland sovereignty
Argentinians gathered in capital Buenos Aires after a nationwide campaign was launched to collect one million signatures against a UK-backed referendum on the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, Press TV reports.
People of all walks of life including war veterans, students, and artists gathered at the Obelisk monument to say that South Atlantic territories seized by the UK centuries ago, belong to...
Hungarians rally for Szekler Land autonomy in Romania
Demonstrators in Transylvania, a historical region in the central part of Romania, pay tribute to the Szekely flag.
Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures, calling on the government of Romania to grant regional autonomy to the Szekler Land.
Szekler Land sits in three Romanian counties: Harghita, Covasna and Targu Mures, the first two of which have...
IDF teargas international journalists covering protests in West Bank
Several international journalists, including an RT cameraman, have suffered from teargas as IDF have launched teargas bombs at the media crews outside Ofer Prison, West Bank. In recent weeks protests outside the facility have left scores of injured.
The RT crew, together with other international teams were documenting nonviolent protests near Ofer prison, which has been the site of numerous clashes...
Iranian women organize topless protest against hijabs in Swedish capital
The Iranian female activists have followed the footsteps of the scandalous Ukrainian FEMEN movement, flashing their breasts in protest against the hijab headscarf, women wear in the Islamic world.
The action performed by members of the Iranian Communist Party and the Organization Against Violence on Women in Iran took place in the center of the Swedish capital, Stockholm on Sunday, and was dedicated...
Tens of thousands of Bulgarians demand political change
Bulgarians protesting on March 3, 2013.
Tens of thousands of Bulgarians have staged rallies across the country to protest against poverty and corruption as well as to demand legislative amendments.
On Sunday, huge crowds gathered in the country’s major cities, including the capital Sofia, and carried slogans that read “Anarchy against organized crime and the monopolies!”, “The mobsters...
Moscow Mayor says no to more mosques in the city
Moscow Muslims celebrate Eid Al-Fitr with morning prayers.
The Mayor of Moscow says there are no plans to build a new mosque in the city, and says the ‘excessive’ number of economic migrants was a ‘harmful thing’.
“It has turned out that the praying Muslims are not at all Russian citizens and they are not Moscow residents. They are labor migrants. There are only 10 percent of Moscow...
Thousands rally in Moscow to support US adoption ban
Thousands have protested in Moscow to demand a ban on foreign adoptions following the death of Maksim Kuzmin, 3, who died shortly after being adopted by a US family in Texas. Pro-Kremlin activists demanded his brother Kirill be returned to Russia.
According to several estimates by the Russian Mothers public movement, the ‘Protect the Children’ protest gathered 12,000 to 20,000 people....
French workers hold demo to save jobs
Goodyear employees gather around burning tires outside the Goodyear tire company in the northern French city of Amiens on February 26, 2013.
French workers have held a demonstration in the northern city of Amiens against the impending closure of a troubled tire plant in the city.
The workers at Goodyear Dunlop Tires France have been trying to save their jobs for more than five years, but in a last-ditch...