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The assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, sets off protests across the country and throws into turmoil the country's upcoming parliamentary elections Jan. 8. She was killed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan after leaving a campaign rally.

Protesters took to the streets of downtown Boston Sunday, as delegates arrived from around the country for the start of the Democratic National Convention. The day's largest demonstration was staged by opponents of the war in Iraq, who gained access to the streets of Boston by court order. NPR's David Welna reports.

Activist organizations rallied outside Senator Marco Rubio's Tampa office Monday to protest what they're calling President-Elect Donald Trump's "Climate...

Thousands in Hong Kong continue to protest, demanding direct elections and a dissolution of the current legislature. Host Scott Simon talks with Washington Post reporter Shibani Mahtani.

Demonstrators in France rallied against the government's proposed change to unemployment benefits, while police and protesters clashed in Germany and Turkey.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Halah, an anti-government protester in Baghdad who is worried about what a proxy war between Iran and the U.S. will mean for her country.

*The story was updated in the early afternoon to include more people who joined the protest. President Trump's first visit to Tampa’s MacDill Air Force...

High school students across the U.S. are walking out of class to protest gun violence in schools. In Chicago, protesting students also want action to take guns off the street.

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of Sudan's major cities on Sunday in defiance of the generals whose violent crackdown earlier in the month left scores of people dead.

A Senate panel Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would ban protests at some funerals, though not all.The bill by Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto, a Fort…