Activism

When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Assange had released a huge cache of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: "I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death penalty or something."

A nationwide strike in Greece against spending cuts disrupted public transport, state-run schools, ferries and national rail services Thursday, and left public hospitals running with emergency staff.

More than 7,000 demonstrators marched in three separate demonstrations in the capital to protest against cost cuts the government is taking to satisfy its bailout creditors.

Deputy Education Minister Dimitris Baxevanakis told Parliament Friday that the "small minority of students" conducting sit-ins at schools across the country must no longer be tolerated and no longer be "told what they want to hear."

A strong wind whipped up forest and bush fires across Israel and the West Bank on Nov. 24, causing the worst rash of fires since 2010 when the country suffered the single deadliest wildfire in history. 

Turkey had proposed to offer aid by sending firefighting aircraft to Israel, which Israel accepted. 

World renowned folk singer Joan Baez has issued a statement expressing solidarity with members of the Turkish protest music group Grup Yorum, arrested on charges of terrorism, obstructing and insulting police.

American actress, producer, author, activist and vegan Alicia Silverstone strips for the latest animal rights campaign of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), using her sensational body to get the message across: “Choose fake, for animals’ sake!”

Police early on Friday raided the grounds of two secondary schools in Lamia where pupils had been holding sit-ins in protest at cutbacks and poor infrastructure.

Officers who entered the school grounds with a prosecutor detained 11 people following the raids.

A group of 50 students were conducting a sit-in at the Aristotle University's rectorate on Thursday, authorities reported. The students, all allegedly members of the Students Struggle Front, were demanding the withdrawal of a 105 euro guarantee required for the rental of student rooms on campus.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic congratulated journalists on May 3, World Press Freedom Day, on Monday, wishing them "the accomplishment of several objectives significant for journalists and media, as well as society as a whole."

Swedish prosecutors still believe an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be upheld, they said on April 14 in reply to the Stockholm District Court that will decide whether to lift the warrant.