When I convulsed in public, strangers usually called an ambulance.
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U.S. markets convulsed Friday, falling by more than 600 points.
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It's difficult to perform authority when you're convulsed in hilarity.
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THE PROTESTS that have convulsed Chile have taken every conceivable form.
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Hundreds have been killed during protests that have convulsed the country.
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Hoping to stabilize the region, Doran argues, Eisenhower instead convulsed it.
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The region is convulsed by conflict, Islamist militancy and mass displacement.
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He even helped fight the wildfire that convulsed Malibu last fall.
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A spasm of violence convulsed the school just as classes began.
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Besides the discrimination row, two other furores have convulsed North Carolina's politics.
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The unrest has convulsed Macron and his government and forced costly concessions.
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The illusion of Chile as an oasis in a convulsed region has cracked.
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Mr. Trump, like Mr. Powell before him, speaks for those convulsed by fear.
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No country before or since has been this convulsed with conflict and wealth.
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He says it is the only way to bring peace back to the convulsed nation.
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Lockett was injected with midazolam, but instead of becoming unconscious, he twitched, convulsed and spoke.
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In 21986, Wilno University, where he was a student, was convulsed by anti-Jewish riots.
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The South Asian population is tied to the imperial bloodshed and partition that convulsed India.
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America's campuses are convulsed by a red scare about Chinese spying and intimidation (see Briefing).
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The city had been convulsed by two weeks of intense protest, including on several campuses.
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When the first "Cats" trailer dropped in July, the internet convulsed with revulsion and awe.
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The fatal police shooting of Ricky Ball in October 2015 convulsed the city of Columbus, Mississippi.
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APEC, which has long championed free trade, has itself been convulsed by the changes under Trump.
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Had any predecessor said the things about FBI Trump said ... the country would have been convulsed.
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But in recent months, antigovernment protests have convulsed the country, spreading into more and more areas.
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Ms. Cristea's family and Mr. Burnaz said in a statement that they were convulsed with grief.
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Anyway, they used it all over her body as she sang "Aura" and convulsed, gyrated and screamed.
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Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991 when dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled.
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The unrest convulsed Kinshasa, the capital, as the country slides into a period of dangerous political uncertainty.
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The crash convulsed the country and the city, the capital of the Piedmont region in northern Italy.
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He convulsed and screamed as though hit again, but wasn't hit this time, either, not for real.
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Her left arm reached around and tried to grab at the pain, fingers doing a convulsed dance.
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Protests over the election have convulsed Bolivia, with police firing tear gas in the capital on Tuesday.
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The distaste for President Trump in his hometown has convulsed into near daily protests across the city.
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That division predates Mr. Trump's ascent, emerging from battles over immigration that have convulsed the border region.
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Kenneth Williams jerked and convulsed in the moments as he died, provoking questions about the drugs used.
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Siddiqui has covered dozens of such demonstrations that have convulsed the country for more than a month.
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Beijing has been looking for ways to support Hong Kong, which has been convulsed by political turmoil.
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France was convulsed by the Dreyfus affair, which divided society as clearly as Brexit or the Trump presidency.
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"It's better when you sing," one of the kids says, at which point I convulsed with anticipatory laughter.
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His body convulsed on the hardwood floor, and despite shocks from a defibrillator, he could not be revived.
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Executed inmate's convulsions put spotlight on midazolam Some inmates executed with midazolam convulsed and gasped after receiving injections.
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Now, like India in 2012, another nation is convulsed by the aftershocks of another brutal gang rape case.
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In the nights that followed, the largest and most widespread demonstrations since the fall of Communism convulsed Romania.
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Toar remembers one of the first times her community was convulsed by anti-immigrant fervor, back in 2006.
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Unlike most cities that have been convulsed by such protests, San Francisco has a relatively small black population.
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A brief lull in fighting will be of immense relief to Afghans, whom war has convulsed for years.
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Today Trump has not so much drained Washington's swamp as convulsed it with daily electroshocks of presidential id.
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The original case was filed by Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death in 2015 convulsed the country.
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The "dreamwalking" town council tries to revive the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", a millenarian cult that convulsed 19th-century China.
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Of course, the fish in the water swam around normally, while the fish in alcohol convulsed until it died.
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While the ACLU wasn't responsible for the fatal violence that ensued, the entire organization was convulsed in the fallout.
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Kilis and other towns along the border have been convulsed since the war broke out in Syria in 653.
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The province has been convulsed by protests against New Delhi's decision to revoke the mainly Muslim area's political autonomy.
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More broadly, the shooting was sandwiched between some other high-profile episodes that convulsed the city in the 1980s.
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The death of Diana after a high-speed car crash shocked the world and convulsed her followers with grief.
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In the old days, patients convulsed during therapy sessions, sometimes so violently that they broke their bones or teeth.
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Mr. Vucic started his career as an ultranationalist during the bloody wars that convulsed the Balkans in the 913s.
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"Guyana will become just like Venezuela," he added, referring to the neighboring country convulsed by sanctions and political crisis.
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THE BRAWL that convulsed Uganda's parliament on September 27th was widely considered the worst parliamentary scrap in the country's history.
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In retrospect the fight that convulsed this country over whether gay Americans should serve in uniform seems senseless, almost absurd.
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For months, Nicaragua has been convulsed by some of its worst political tension since a civil war in the 1980s.
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It was an early sign that the protests that have convulsed this city for three months are likely to continue.
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Nicaragua has been convulsed by unrest since Ortega in April proposed cutting pension benefits to cover a social security shortfall.
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Eventually, the racial tension and violence that had convulsed the home front during the summer of 1967 erupted in Vietnam.
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In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
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In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Dewey-Hagborg's Lovesick proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
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Syria, a jewel of a country on the eastern end of the Mediterranean, remains convulsed by war, eating itself from within.
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A core group of combative young agitators has come to define the antigovernment protests that have convulsed Hong Kong since June.
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WHEN APPLE cut its revenue estimate for the last quarter of 2018 because of unexpectedly slow sales of iPhones, markets convulsed.
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"Military action in Iraq not only turned a humanitarian crisis into a disaster, it also convulsed an entire region," he added.
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In recent weeks, the small coffee-exporting country has been convulsed by protests in which at least 31 people have died.
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In the United States, Britain and across the European Continent, people are convulsed with political frustration and anxiety about the future.
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Somalia has been convulsed by instability, violence and lawlessness since early 1990s following the toppling of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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Though widespread clashes between security forces and civilians have ebbed in recent years, the Kashmir valley has been convulsed by protests.
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That fear is especially acute now because two neighboring nations — Libya and South Sudan — are convulsed by civil war and chaos.
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In the days since then, Europe and the United States have been convulsed by the coronavirus's rapid spread in those regions.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Dara Khosrowshahi's family immigrated to the United States from Iran in 212, when their country was convulsed by revolution.
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As Washington, just across the Potomac River, convulsed, Flynn was going through his own "range of emotional swings," the associate said.
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Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, has been convulsed by civil strife for more than two years.
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Nestled in sea-cucumber farmer Jamari's palm, the specimen she had fished from the seabed convulsed with a slow-motion shudder.
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Eyewitnesses at Kenneth Williams' execution in April said he convulsed on the gurney long after midazolam should have knocked him unconscious.
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What is clear is that the Middle East, convulsed by Mr Obama's blundering predecessor, is even more wretched after his tumultuous reticence.
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As long as this continues, its economy will remain stagnant and its polity will continue to be convulsed by anger and resentment.
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Northern Mali has been convulsed by violence at the hands of armed groups claiming to represent its various quarrelling communities for years.
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The bond market convulsed, with the 10-year yield retreating from an early of 2.71 percent to 2.64 percent, after the number.
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Since the decision to leave the European Union, Britain has convulsed in an agony of introspection about its status in the world.
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For months, Venezuela has been convulsed by an economic crisis caused by low oil prices, a lack of savings and a drought.
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He was one of hundreds, perhaps thousands, who died in the suppression of the democracy protests that convulsed the capital for weeks.
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Since 2004, American politics has been convulsed by the electorate's search for leaders who will reverse economic decline and show administrative competence.
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Earlier that year, another inmate, Clayton Lockett, had been injected with midazolam, but instead of becoming unconscious, he twitched, convulsed and spoke.
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Somalia has been convulsed by instability, violence and lawlessness since the early 1990s following the toppling of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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South Sudan has been convulsed by conflict since late 2013, pitting President Salva Kiir's troops against those of rebel leader Riek Machar.
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Since then, the country has been convulsed by clan-based violence — driven by a battle for resources and power — and widespread destruction.
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The Yellow Vest protests that have convulsed France for the past few weeks, leaving chic Parisian neighborhoods smoldering, are making environmentalists nervous.
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As a result of those relatively modest changes, Morocco had been mostly stable, even while uprising convulsed many countries in the region.
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Some said the timing of the policy change was especially ill advised, given the popular unrest that has convulsed Lebanon and Iraq.
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Riots convulsed the majority-black city in April 2015 after Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died in police custody.
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But European products which do offer inverse or leveraged exposure to volatility have also been on a rollercoaster ride as volatility markets convulsed.
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The rate of change was extraordinary — society convulsed, opposing clans fought, masterless samurai rebelled against an unrelenting modernization, all in just 20 years.
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The riots which convulsed Hong Kong in 1967, which were inspired by the Cultural Revolution in China, took eight months to quieten down.
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Street protests over the cost of living have convulsed France in recent weeks, causing violence in Paris and threatening President Emmanuel Macron's authority.
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But once Powell spoke about a half hour later, the markets convulsed, with bond yields spiking and stocks selling off into the close.
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The authorities have detained journalists and temporarily closed media outlets as the five-year-old African nation has been convulsed by civil conflict.
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Nicaragua has been convulsed by unrest since April, when Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, proposed reducing pension benefits to ease budgetary pressures.
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The fast-moving developments convulsed Venezuela, a once-prosperous country that has been devastated by years of political repression, economic mismanagement and corruption.
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Paige Patterson, president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, have convulsed the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
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It recently lost a parliamentiary by-election in a traditionally rock-solid seat, has plummeted in opinion polls and is convulsed with infighting.
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Mr. Xi's remarks amounted to a warning for Hong Kong, where protests and clashes with the police have convulsed the city since June.
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Caracas, the capital, has been convulsed by protests since the end of March, when the supreme court usurped the powers of the national assembly.
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" Abu Zubaydah went on to say that he started to experience "the panicked sensation of death" and his body "convulsed in terror and resistance.
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But Spanish politics have been convulsed by a less uplifting matter: whether the postgraduate degrees some of its leaders boast of were fairly obtained.
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In 2014, an inmate convulsed and took more than 40 minutes to die after the state used an untested combination of three lethal drugs.
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The UK grocery market has been convulsed in recent years by thrifty shoppers turning to discounters Aldi and Lidl, convenience stores and online shops.
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The kingdom has been convulsed by occasional unrest since authorities crushed 2011 protests mainly by Shi'ites demanding a bigger share in running the country.
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"He seems to be deaf," said Fabrice Schlegel, who has helped lead some of the citizen protests that have convulsed France in recent weeks.
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Analysts noted it was not clear how the United States would protect Mr. Kim from a domestic uprising like the one that convulsed Libya.
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My Facebook community was convulsed in a take-no-prisoners battle, a war being waged on the tanned, taut terrain of Jennifer Lopez's body.
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Over the weekend in Olinda, their hometown up the coast from Recife, Daniel had convulsed in seizures for three hours straight, his lips purple.
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Investors flocked to safe-haven assets as the "Leave" vote convulsed euro zone markets, with sterling plunging to its lowest level in three decades.
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Convulsed in laughter a few pages into Andrew Sean Greer's fifth novel, "Less," I wondered with regret why I wasn't familiar with this author.
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Business spending tapered in late 2018, and that slowdown most likely worsened as financial markets convulsed in December, weighing on corporate and consumer confidence.
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In Hong Kong, the cancellations come after months of political protests that have convulsed the city and left much of the territory on shaky footing.
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Connecting these two disparate threads is a baby, left at one of the anti-corruption rallies in New Delhi that convulsed Indian politics in 2011.
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Global financial markets convulsed as Trump claimed victory in the race for the White House after a polarizing campaign that investors had largely bet against.
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Terry Day, local president for the United Steelworkers union, said the 1990s shutdowns convulsed the community and resulted in a spate of suicides and divorces.
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When he was buffeted by the blasphemy allegations and Jakarta convulsed by mass protests, his poll ratings plummeted and Agus Yudhoyono emerged as the frontrunner.
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ITALIAN LOCKDOWN The unprecedented lockdown of the whole of Italy, which is convulsed by Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak, has heaped fresh disaster on global airlines.
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Resting for a moment against the trunk of a tree, I stopped, and suddenly found myself bent over, convulsed with the newly present pain, sobbing.
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The monarchy fell; an Islamic Republic replaced it, with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as its leader, and for a decade Iran convulsed with violence and privation.
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As cities across Iran were convulsed in the days after the gas-price increase, some 300 to 450 people are believed to have been killed.
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The alleged involvement of military officials in the drone incident is notable in the convulsed oil-rich nation where the armed forces have long been powerbrokers.
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Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the Western Hemisphere and it has recently has been convulsed by protests following a contested presidential election.
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He is the highest-ranking member of the Chinese government to visit Hong Kong since pro-democracy demonstrations convulsed the semiautonomous city nearly two years ago.
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Editorial Once again, the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is convulsed in lethal violence pitting stone-throwing youths against armed police officers and security forces.
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The conflict that has convulsed Syria began five years ago today, and the U.N. reports that one-third of all Syrian children were born since then.
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"One Second," set in a prison farm during the Cultural Revolution that convulsed the country during Mao Zedong's rule, has not yet been rescheduled for release.
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In the closing rendition of "Rise," she skittered across the stage and convulsed on the floor, a suggestion of the "tearing down" she later spoke of.
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For nearly six months, demonstrations have convulsed Hong Kong as activists have struggled to preserve the territory's semi-autonomy from the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
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Mr. Wong, 22, was released from prison in June after serving two months for convictions related to pro-democracy protests that convulsed the city in 2014.
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Maduro says the 545-member assembly, which will have the power to dissolve state institutions and rewrite the constitution, will bring peace to the convulsed country.
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They said they had been prepared for some anger from Muslims, but not the widespread protests that have convulsed most major cities for nearly two weeks.
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That system is convulsed by its worst crisis in the democratic era, as politicians fall over each other to make fools of themselves and ancient traditions crumble.
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Iran has been convulsed by anti-government protests for since late December, leading to the deaths of at least 21 people and thousands of detentions and arrests.
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Not, surely, Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, who has convulsed the country's politics by promising free elections next year and to step down if he loses.
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Clad in black and wielding umbrellas to protect themselves, they brought to mind the pro-democracy street protests that convulsed the city for two months in 2014.
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Argentina, which defaulted on its debt in 2002, has been convulsed by economic crises about once every decade for 70 years, making it vulnerable to market jitters.
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One thing is certain: Bouguereau's crowd-pleasing paintings were so saccharine, silky, and Mannerist that the French intelligentsia finally convulsed in response and gave birth to Modernism.
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Maduro says it will bring peace to the convulsed OPEC nation after four months of violent opposition street protests that have left more than 120 people dead.
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Attack in Hong Kong: A pro-Beijing lawmaker was stabbed in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the latest episode of political violence in a city convulsed by protests.
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The violence, which has convulsed the Asian financial hub, has posed the gravest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.
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The stock exchange they work at managed to avoid a crash during the unrest that convulsed the country this year, toppling long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir.
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Another revealing moment came in 1989, when New York City was convulsed by the "Central Park jogger" case, a rape and beating of a young white woman.
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Martial law was declared after the coup attempt in the country, which has been convulsed by military takeovers at least three times in the past half-century.
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As a global health crisis raged outside, and markets convulsed and quaked with historically intense volatility, some of Wall Street's largest trading floors have been uncharacteristically quiet.
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He was still in medical school in Sohag and watched from the sidelines when Egypt was convulsed by demonstrations that brought down President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
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It was a risky place to be, with the Middle East convulsed, and Mr. Dalio's trip raised concerns at the Connecticut headquarters of his company, Bridgewater Associates.
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In the 1960s, American and European cities were convulsed by riots and antiwar protests, and in the early 1970s the Watergate scandal threatened to derail American democracy.
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In South Sudan, where a civil war has convulsed the country for almost three years, more than half of primary-school-age children are out of school.
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A spike in U.S.-China tensions over import tariffs has convulsed markets recently as investors seek to parse statements from government leaders to gauge the direction of negotiations.
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A spike in U.S.-China tensions over import tariffs has convulsed markets recently as investors seek to parse statements from government leaders to gauge the direction of talks.
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The anti-government street protests have convulsed France for three months and posed the greatest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's authority since he took office in May, 2017.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The militant attacks that have convulsed France in the past 18 months should not weaken France's bid to host the 2024 Olympics, President Francois Hollande said.
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Kenya is still haunted by violence that convulsed the country after a disputed presidential poll in 2007, when more than 1,200 people were killed in widespread ethnic violence.
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What she found, instead, was a volatile situation in which gender roles were changing, restless women were seeking out new opportunities, and husbands were convulsed with existential drama.
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Its last rate cut, by 50 basis points, came in June 2011 as the revolution convulsed the political system and economy, leading to a sharp fall in GDP.
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Carrie Lam is expected to deliver her third annual policy address in a few hours, against the backdrop of increasingly violent protests that have convulsed the semiautonomous city.
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Anti-war protests, demonstrations in inner cities, and turmoil at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago produced harsh responses by law enforcement and left the political process convulsed.
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LONDON — Britain might be convulsed by Brexit, but the contemporary art world, and the 0.1 percent of the population that makes it go around, carries on as normal.
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The unanimous ruling by the five-member Board of Elections was a startling — and, for Republicans, embarrassing — conclusion to a case that has convulsed North Carolina since November.
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After scattering mimeographed fliers around the space, the artist-performers spattered themselves with cow blood, assaulted each other, and fell to the floor as if convulsed with pain.
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The British supermarket sector has been convulsed by fierce competition in recent years and analysts have said a step-up from Amazon could hurt the traditional players even more.
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Congo's capital Kinshasa and other cities were convulsed by violent demonstrations on Tuesday against Kabila, who has been in power since his father Laurent was shot dead in 2001.
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The nominee diversity is a particular point of pride for Broadway this year, when Hollywood has been convulsed with controversy over the lack of Oscar nominations for nonwhite performers.
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Their cause has lost its resonance in a Middle East convulsed by civil wars and proxy battles between Iran, a Shia power, and Saudi Arabia, the region's Sunni champion.
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Mexico has been convulsed by violence since former President Felipe Calderon sent in the armed forces to take on the drug cartels after he took office in December 2006.
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Vast changes had convulsed the nation for the previous decade: civil rights, women's rights, rock and roll, long hair, drugs, television shows acknowledging the existence of things like sex.
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José Yoel Castillo stumbled to the doorstep of the malaria clinic in Las Claritas, carried on the shoulders of two relatives as he convulsed and was unable to speak.
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The rampancy of meth in Southeast Asia has convulsed the people and politics of the region, roiling it with social upheaval with maxed-out prisons, police killings and vigilantes.
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She was raised during the height of the struggle against apartheid, as repression and protest convulsed the country and severely limited the rights and opportunities for black South Africans.
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The U.S.-Taliban deal is seen as a historic opportunity to extricate the United States from Afghanistan, a nation convulsed by conflict since the Soviet invasion in December 1979.
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But as a guest on the show, he also brought light to social injustices against black people at a time when the United States was convulsed by racial tension.
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The United States has been backing Libya's unelected, unpopular Government of National Accord, which has failed to become either a government, or find accord in a country convulsed in violence.
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They will not go to trial and will serve life sentences, unless granted parole after 25 years imprisonment, for crimes that convulsed their suburban, palm-tree-lined community of Perris.
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And I stayed there, sunk my fingers into the soft, crumbling silt until my lungs twisted and convulsed, because even though the freezing water cut like knives, it was soundless.
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Closing a wide-ranging probe into corruption that has convulsed Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate, prosecutors will announce the results of their investigation into the retail-to-chemicals group on Oct.
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For the moment, the party is convulsed by internal divisions as a result of the rise of businessman Donald Trump and is more focused about maintaining its control over Congress.
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During the last decade, Tamaulipas has become one of the most violent states in Mexico, convulsed by gangs fighting to control drug trafficking, extortion rackets and the exploitation of migrants.
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To say that the country will be convulsed by social strife "is basically obvious, not so much a threat", Guilherme Boulos, leader of the radical Homeless Workers' Movement, has warned.
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During the event, hosted by Fox News, Mr. Trump suggested that stop-and-frisk would work well in cities like Chicago, which has been convulsed by gun violence, and Cleveland.
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His hazy political philosophy, often labeled "Trumpism," draws on themes of American identity and sovereignty — preoccupations that have convulsed one party or the other from time to time, before subsiding.
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Already suffering a severe economic crisis, Venezuela, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has recently been convulsed by clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters.
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I've never convulsed on a guy mid-coitus (at least, not for seizure-related reasons), but I have had seizures on dates before, and trust me, it's surprisingly not cute.
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Clinton, it happened repeatedly and in the most public of ways, unfolding at the dawn of the 22000/7 news cycle, and later in impeachment proceedings that convulsed the nation.
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But he resigned in frustration that August, citing the intransigence of both sides in a conflict that had convulsed and reshaped the region and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Nicaragua has been convulsed since April, when peaceful student protests developed into a broad-based movement demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and Ms. Murillo, who is his wife.
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One common excuse for the electorate's embrace of Nazism was economic hardship; the hyperinflation that convulsed Germany after World War I had turned into a deflationary spiral with the Depression.
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BAGHDAD — Iraqis are still haunted by memories of black-clad death squads roaming Baghdad neighborhoods a decade ago, cleansing them of Sunnis as the country was convulsed by sectarian violence.
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Over the next three decades, as the region was convulsed by one crisis after another, Mubarak was seen as a steady hand and a reliable U.S. partner against Islamic extremism.
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Further fueling the debate, Anita Hill, the attorney who convulsed the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with sexual assault allegations, issued a statement on Friday night.
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As Arab Spring protests convulsed the region in 2011, Kuwait&aposs ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, ordered 1,000 dinar ($3,559) grants and free food coupons for every Kuwaiti.
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While Evergrande said the deal was "an investment", without further comment, analysts said it gave the highly acquisitive firm more bargaining power in a saga that has convulsed Vanke this year.
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Newly released surveillance video shows a teenager drinking liquid methamphetamine, which he claimed was juice to US Customs and Border Protection agents, shortly before he convulsed and died from the drug.
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Living In 12 Photos View Slide Show ' For Meaghan Hannan Davant, Capitol Hill is not the throbbing, recently convulsed heart of political power in Washington, D.C., but an unpretentious small town.
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Now the force is struggling to salvage a reputation blighted by its behavior in the June 12 protests over a proposed extradition law that convulsed Hong Kong, the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
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A few years later, Yugoslavia would be convulsed by violence, and when war came, Mr. Sare took up arms with the Croat nationalists and was again briefly imprisoned for smuggling weapons.
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Matt Damon plays a father figure who gives in to darker impulses after his wife (Julianne Moore, playing sisters) is murdered in a Levittown-like suburb being convulsed by racial violence.
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Hong Kong has been convulsed by daily and often violent protests for the last six months as demonstrations against a now-withdrawn extradition bill broadened into demands for greater democratic freedom.
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The most notable burst of violence occurred in 2009, when ethnic rioting convulsed Urumqi, the regional capital, resulting in about 200 deaths, most of them ethnic Han, according to official reports.
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After a stinging loss to Donald J. Trump, liberals in the party are also trying to figure out how to tap into the populist unrest that convulsed both parties in 2016.
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We already know what the political effect has been: The right-wing politics that has convulsed virtually every northern European country, including Sweden, feeds upon public fear of refugees and immigrants.
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Murders are on track to reach a record high this year, as Mexico continues grappling with turf wars between violent drug gangs that have convulsed the country for more than a decade.
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This afternoon, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said he would not call for an investigation into lethal injection procedures, despite yesterday's execution when the prisoner convulsed for several minutes, according to eye witnesses.
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Lula's downfall has been as stunning as the unprecedented corruption probes that have convulsed Brazil for the last four years, jailing dozens of politicians and business leaders long considered above the law.
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Mr. Xi demolished a political convention that for decades has helped to shield China from the succession struggles that convulsed politics under the earlier leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, they said.
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That decision convulsed European politics, fueling the rise of anti-immigration parties including the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which now threatens to unseat the CSU in October's regional elections.
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Like the rest of Latin America, people here for weeks had been watching at a relatively safe distance as the rest of the world convulsed amid the onslaught of the new coronavirus.
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HONG KONG — Violence has again convulsed the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar, the same region where the United Nations has accused the country's authorities of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya minority.
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Algeria said this week it would ban economic, social and political gatherings, though it is not clear if this will include weekly mass protests that have convulsed the capital for a year.
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That Black is celebrated today as the ultimate champion of the First Amendment may explain why the Klan episode that convulsed the country has largely been lost in the mists of time.
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It was the latest twist in a debate that has convulsed the country for three anguished years, ever since the British public voted in 2016 for a divorce from the European Union.
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A year after racial discontent neared levels not seen since the Rodney King beating case, the country finds itself convulsed by controversies over neo-Nazis emboldened by Donald Trump's rise to power.
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Yet three years after economic concerns in China convulsed assets worldwide in 2015, long-term investors are again wrestling with the prospect that an emerging market crisis could shake up sanguine markets.
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They approved the bill on a vote of 330 to 231, drawing a long-awaited line under the heated debate over a Brexit plan that convulsed British politics and divided the nation.
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Violent anti-government "Yellow Vest" protests convulsed Paris and towns and cities across France late last year and the first half of 2019, challenging President Emmanuel Macron's authority and forcing some policy reversals.
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Machar then left the capital with his troops, although he said he was not preparing for a resumption of the fighting that convulsed South Sudan from December 2013 and ended earlier this year.
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At the same time as the Jat protests outside Delhi last month, India's political establishment was convulsed by a controversy surrounding the arrest for sedition, under a colonial-era law, of Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Cleveland, Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., have all been convulsed after black people died in encounters with police officers, and neighborhood segregation and budget and school problems are common in the nation's major cities.
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One-third of all Syrian children were born in the five years that conflict has convulsed their country, the United Nations said on Monday in a report that suggests a new lost generation.
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" He said he hoped "wisdom and prudence prevail, in order to avoid adding new elements of tension to a global panorama that is already convulsed and marked by so many and cruel conflicts.
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Mr. Kuczynski's abrupt resignation on Wednesday, following the release of recordings that showed key allies trying to buy the support of opposition lawmakers, convulsed this Andean nation, although many Peruvians were not surprised.
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Li, speaking at a joint news conference in Beijing with Merkel, said China wanted to prevent unrest in the former British colony, which has been convulsed by protests in the past few weeks.
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That should have been the end of the matter, but Ms. Boggio's murder had convulsed Pinellas County, and prosecutors there faced intense pressure to make sure someone paid the ultimate price for it.
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Nine Republican senators are up for re-election next year, but there is little talk of the sort of primaries that terrified Republican lawmakers and convulsed the party during President Barack Obama's administration.
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The thing that convulsed the internet for much of yesterday was this Reuters report that Apple decided against throwing away its keys to users' encrypted iCloud backups after the FBI complained about encryption.
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Japan has not experienced the kind of transgender moment that has swept the United States, where the politics of sexual identity have convulsed schools, popular culture and big-time sports in recent years.
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The festival devoted its program to refugees and migration in 2016 after Europe's politics were convulsed by the arrival of more than a million refugees from the Middle East and Africa, including Jazmati herself.
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The first is the spread of the internet and social media; the second, a bulging youth demographic with no memory of the genocide and civil war that convulsed Cambodia for more than two decades.
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The United States plans to implement tariffs on $687.503 billion worth of imports from China as both nations remained locked in a bitter trade dispute that has convulsed global financial markets in recent weeks.
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Venezuela has been convulsed by demonstrations against leftist President Nicolas Maduro accused by critics of knocking the oil-rich country into its worst-ever economic crisis and bringing it to the brink of dictatorship.
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The United States plans to implement tariffs on $2695 billion worth of imports from China as both nations remained locked in a bitter trade dispute that has convulsed global financial markets in recent weeks.
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He also approved targeted sanctions against several Iranian government officials for corruption and human rights abuses, some of it related to the antigovernment protests that have convulsed Iranian cities this month, these people said.
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LONDON — Britain formally exits the European Union on Friday night, casting off from the Continent after nearly half a century and ending a debate that had convulsed the country for more than three years.
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" He added that he wishes "wisdom and prudence prevail, in order to avoid adding new elements of tension to a global panorama that is already convulsed and marked by so many and cruel conflicts.
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Although the system is hardwired for long-term planning, it seemed like state and society was perpetually convulsed with the imperatives of getting to the next Communist Party Congress without the wheels coming off.
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Since the 2011 uprising that ended the rule of Ben Ali and triggered the Arab Spring protests that convulsed the region, Tunisia has become one of the few Arab countries where protests are permitted.
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Indonesian security forces said that 35 civilians and a soldier were killed on Monday in Jayapura and Wamena, in an escalation of the violence that has convulsed the region for the past six weeks.
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Students also want a ban on military or police personnel taking up public posts, and the release of "Papuan political prisoners", referring to the easternmost Papua region convulsed by civil unrest in recent weeks.
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Hong Kong has been convulsed by more than six months of protests, triggered by a now-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party.
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The number of people making the trek has grown over the years, even after Kashmir was convulsed by a separatist insurgency in 1989 that has sought to wrest control of the region from India.
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Wahhabism spread to Sri Lanka's Eastern Province three decades ago, when the area was convulsed by conflict between mostly Hindu Tamil separatists and the Buddhist-dominated government, according to local religious leaders and politicians.
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The new rules have not only put trainers and owners at the track on notice, but also convulsed a multibillion-dollar industry from Kentucky to New York that has resisted meaningful oversight for decades.
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Venezuela was convulsed for months by demonstrations against leftist President Nicolas Maduro, accused by critics of knocking the oil-rich country into its worst-ever economic crisis and bringing it to the brink of dictatorship.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday that Moscow did not want protests like the yellow vest ones that have convulsed France, but that peaceful demonstrations were fine.
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Over the past few months the Tory party has been so convulsed by internal leadership struggles—by briefings and counter-briefings, rhetorical acid-attacks and counter-attacks—that it has sometimes seemed incapable of governing.
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Hundreds of people were killed during two years of protests that convulsed the country's two most populous provinces, whose ethnic Oromo and Amharic communities complain they are under-represented in the country's corridors of power.
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Against the advice of the FBI and the Department of Justice, President Donald Trump approved the release of the Republican-drafted memo Friday, capping weeks of hysteria that's convulsed Capitol Hill and captivated conservative media.
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In an interview in Kuala Lumpur, Haoliang Xu cited the Arab Spring protests, which convulsed North Africa and the Middle East in 2011, as a movement that began with young people's disillusionment about the future.
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Who would have guessed that it would become, of all things, an affordable retirement haven for foreigners, including many Americans who were of draft age when the country was convulsed by those much darker times?
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Sinosphere BEIJING — The filmmaker Evans Chan was delighted when an educational center in Hong Kong agreed to screen his new documentary about the Umbrella Movement, the pro-democracy demonstrations that convulsed the city in 2014.
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Police threatened to fire live bullets if "rioters" did not stop using lethal weapons in the latest flare-up in anti-government protests that have convulsed the Chinese-ruled city for more than five months.
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The government has yet to report figures on casualties and arrests, but there are strong indications that the protests were the deadliest in the country since the election unrest that convulsed Iran a decade ago.
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Beyond its years as a base for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has been convulsed by civil strife since 230, when the Shiite Muslim rebels from the country's north stormed the capital, Sana.
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In her remarks, Ms. Hua also accused several organizations, including the National Endowment for Democracy, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, of instigating violence during the antigovernment protests that have convulsed Hong Kong since June.
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Like Ituri, other eastern provinces including Tanganyika, South Kivu, and North Kivu have been convulsed with various types of violence, both ethnic conflicts and battles between the Congolese military, local militias, and other armed groups.
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In 1947, with the civil war that convulsed the country from 1936 to 1939 still fresh in collective memory, a military court sentenced Sanchez-Albornoz to forced labor for membership of an anti-Fascist student association.
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Western states are counting on the GNA as the best option in tackling the political chaos, security vacuum and economic collapse that have convulsed Libya since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in an uprising five years ago.
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With the country convulsed by its worst political crisis in modern times after Britons voted to leave the European Union, investors have warned the economy could tip into recession, hammering consumer confidence and threatening corporate forecasts.
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As a result, sitting over tea on a rainy afternoon in Mayfair, Ms. Newman — who has been with Sotheby's for 28 years — sounded undaunted by the political turmoil and Europe's depressed currency, which has convulsed London.
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The media industry has been convulsed by the rapid shift in advertising trends in recent years, with firms moving their ad budgets from traditional sources such as newspapers to websites found on computers and mobile phones.
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By the time Slice transformed into a bona fide professional MMA fighter in 25000, the sport around him had writhed and convulsed into a delicate place—one foot in the mainstream, one teetering off a cliff.
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Russia, the Syrian government's most important ally, has now used its veto 11 times to shield the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the war that has convulsed that country began in 2011.
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The street protests that have convulsed Hong Kong are redefining the meaning of these elections throughout the territory: Calls for more representativeness and government accountability have become paramount even in the smallest and most rural communities.
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The work, which accelerated in the spring, has convulsed entire districts, churning up debris and clouds of dust and wiping out scores of the places that have given the capital a bit of its rakish charm.
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The Chinese-ruled city has been convulsed by more than 900 often violent protests since June, the security bureau said earlier, as public opposition to a now-withdrawn extradition bill developed into demands for greater freedoms.
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The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will publish a book about the sexual abuse and harassment scandals that have convulsed the nation over the past two months, Penguin Press confirmed on Thursday.
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Conservatives who didn't care about that affront, but convulsed when Harry Reid solved the problem by eliminating the filibuster for all sub-Supreme Court nominations, shouldn't be mistaken as tribunes of principle for our faltering governing institutions.
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The diplomatic activity comes amid a ballooning exodus that has inundated border towns and flooded some Latin American job markets with low-skilled Venezuelans desperate for work in order to send money back to their convulsed homeland.
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The drumbeat of global trade developments has convulsed markets since U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports a year ago, sparking concerns that a full-blown trade dispute would undermine the global economy.
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After the family moved to Queens, he attended Andrew Jackson High School, where he once convulsed his classmates by performing a King Kong satire standing on a chair and inviting them to toss paper airplanes at him.
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There is a consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia's government is responsible for the cyber break-ins of the Democratic National Committee and the leaking of sensitive political information that convulsed the election some weeks ago.
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The UK grocery market has been convulsed in recent years by shoppers turning to discounter retailers such as Aldi and Lidl, which has put pressure on the "Big Four" of Tesco, Sainsbury, Wal-Mart's Asda and Morrisons.
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Stocks were off session highs after a highly anticipated midday speech from Trump, with investors concerned ahead of time about any comments that would worsen the tariff dispute that has convulsed markets for more than a year.
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LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ (Reuters) - Protests over a disputed presidential election convulsed Bolivia on Tuesday as police fired tear gas in the capital and the sitting president and opposition candidate wrestled over an audit of the results.
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Separately, the Hong Kong Center of the Asia Society has canceled the screening of "Raise the Umbrellas," a new documentary by Evans Chan about the Umbrella Movement, the pro-democracy demonstrations that convulsed the city in 2014.
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Alabama's increasingly bizarre Senate race was convulsed again on Wednesday as four more women came forward to describe encounters with the Republican candidate, Roy S. Moore, and Mr. Moore's campaign sharply questioned the credibility of another accuser.
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Mr. Tsang, they said, was barely aware of politics until June when the first major protests against a bill that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to the mainland for trial convulsed the city.
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Bolivia has been convulsed by protests for more than a week after its electoral tribunal abruptly suspended publication of presidential election results, later announcing Morales had pulled off a razor-thin victory allowing him a fourth term.
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While other newly-independent Soviet republics were convulsed by wars, economic upheaval and political turmoil, life for people in Uzbekistan stayed largely stable, safe and predictable — a state of affairs that Karimov's supporters touted as his great achievement.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asia's relatively stable bonds and money markets seem immune to the inflation fears that convulsed global equities recently, as investors bet the continent's major economies will keep interest rates low as price pressures remain benign.
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Pandl noted that following the taper tantrum in 2013, when markets convulsed after the Fed first broached the idea that it would taper its bond purchases, policy makers were likely to move carefully on adjusting the balance sheet.
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"The private sector is part of the solution and not part of the problem," he said at Fedecamaras' headquarters in a middle class area of Caracas near where anti-government protests have convulsed the country for four months.
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His comments came after the House and Senate this week passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in reaction to anti-government protests that have convulsed the semi-autonomous Chinese city for more than five months.
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Turkey has been convulsed for the last three years in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup that left over 250 people dead, most of them civilians who went to the streets to face down the military.
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As a member of the president's family, officials in Pyongyang judged, Mr. Kushner would have the ear of his father-in-law and be immune from the personnel changes that had convulsed the early months of the administration.
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On Friday, the 23-day repo rate opened at 10.00 percent and surged to a high of 15.00 percent at one point, the highest since late June 2013 when a cash crunch convulsed Chinese and global finiancial markets.
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The Communist Party exerts overwhelming control over media content inside China's so-called Great Firewall, and it is now using it as a cudgel in an information war over the protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for months.
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The Communist Party exerts overwhelming control over media content inside China's so-called Great Firewall, and it is now using it as a cudgel in an information war over the protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for months.
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Rice and Zelikow make a convincing case that the collapse of the Soviet Union constituted one of history's rare "catalytic episodes," when the existing order is convulsed by immense forces that statesmen can shape for good or ill.
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The arrival of coronavirus in Hong Kong — where there have been 61 confirmed cases, including one fatality — has helped take the steam out of the mass anti-government demonstrations that have convulsed the city since June last year.
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Sometimes violent protests convulsed the region for two weeks in late August over racial slurs against Papuan students in Java's city of Surabaya, who were teargassed in a dormitory and detained over accusations of desecrating a national flag.
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Lawyers for death row inmates have asked a federal court and the state to examine Arkansas' lethal injection protocols, saying that in at least one of the April executions, an inmate coughed and convulsed on a death chamber gurney.
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Forward prices on one-year offshore yuan contracts show a discount of 22017 pips from spot levels, but back in early-22018, the discount was more than 73 pips as concerns about a sharp slowdown in China convulsed markets.
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Venezuela has been convulsed by months of near-daily protests against leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who critics say has plunged the oil-rich country into the worst economic crisis in its history and is turning it into a dictatorship.
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Director David Leitch captures the fistfights and car chases cleanly and sharply, without too much CG muddiness and with plenty of cheer-worthy moments; I practically convulsed with glee at several points during one particularly thrilling ride through London.
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This part of northern Iraq has been convulsed by violence since the advance of the Islamic State, which sent Christians fleeing, enslaved Yazidi women and killed Shiites on sight, until finally being wiped out in the area last month.
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Under fire for its response to the coronavirus epidemic, China's authoritarian government appears to be pushing a new account of events that presents President Xi Jinping as taking early action to fight the outbreak that has convulsed the country.
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The gatherings, in more than half of the semiautonomous Chinese territory's 18 districts, were the first significant unrest since Hong Kong was convulsed by violence a week earlier over opposition to a ban on face masks at public gatherings.
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Between 180 and 450 people are believed to have been killed in the four days of violence that convulsed cities around the country when demonstrators gathered on the streets to protest a gasoline price increase announced on Nov. 15.
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The fire in the dormitory, which may have been constructed improperly on what was intended to be a parking lot, was the latest in a string of seemingly preventable tragedies that have convulsed Brazil over the past two weeks.
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In October 2014, as near-panic about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa convulsed the country, Mr. Obama invited to the White House Nina Pham, one of two Dallas nurses infected with the disease while treating an infected man in Dallas.
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The Hong Kong office of China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday asked the United States to explain reports in Communist Party-controlled media that U.S. diplomats were in contact with student leaders of protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for nine weeks.
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The Hong Kong office of China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday asked the United States to explain reports in Communist Party-controlled media that its diplomats are in contact with student leaders of protests that have convulsed Hong Kong for nine weeks.
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Speaking to reporters, Christophe Castaner said that the street demonstrations that have convulsed France for three weeks "created a monster that escaped from its creators," with the movement originally protesting a fuel tax and morphing into broad anti-government anger.
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Civil rights activist Jordi Cuixart and eight others were last week convicted of sedition over their failed 2017 independence bid and jailed for up to 13 years, terms that convulsed Spain's political landscape and added new impetus to the secessionist movement.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan leftist President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that "terrorists" had broken into a National Guard unit over the weekend and stolen weapons, the latest sign of volatility in the oil-rich country convulsed by a profound economic crisis.
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Far from just a cynical take on art tainted by its embrace of corporate commerce, DIS shows that it is the masses who are far too enthralled with their own bellybuttons in a world convulsed in political, social, and economic instability.
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India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, convulsed by a nearly 30-year armed revolt in which tens of thousands of people have died, with hundreds of thousands of Indian troops deployed to quell it.
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You don't have to go digging through the last 100 years, as Barack Obama suggested, to start identifying the U.S.'s less than noble role in the upheavals that convulsed South America in the 1970s and continue to be felt today.
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The ministry for public security said the attack was carried out in the municipality of Aguililla in Michoacan, a state that has long been convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs, notably the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and its enemies.
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Newspaper Bild earlier reported that two exchange students at Hong Kong's Lingnan University had been detained in the Chinese autonomous region, which has been convulsed by months of protests against measures to bring the city state closer to Beijing's orbit.
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Frail nations shaped by the victors of World War I have faced challenges of their own — the Arab Spring convulsed North Africa and the Middle East, and Iraq and Syria descended into turmoil, helping give rise to the Islamic State.
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In the United States, the killings of black Americans by white police officers — and the killings of police officers by black men in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. — have convulsed the country, revealing a deep racial chasm around policing in America.
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Britain's grocery market has been convulsed in recent years by changing shopping habits, the rise of German discounters Aldi and Lidl and a brutal price war and analysts see AmazonFresh as a potential challenge to the whole industry over time.
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The former British colony, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, has been convulsed by often-violent protests over the past five months, prompting China's central government to issue strict warnings that it will not allow the turmoil to continue.
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HONG KONG — Police officers in Hong Kong on Saturday fired tear gas and clashed with protesters around the city, capping 21 weeks of antigovernment demonstrations that have convulsed this international financial hub and helped to sink it into a recession.
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Venezuela's unpopular President Nicolas Maduro earlier on Tuesday vowed to push ahead with a new Congress to rewrite the Constitution, despite dissent within his own ranks and major protests in the OPEC nation convulsed by nearly two months of unrest.
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When the markets convulsed on Monday and Tuesday, Mr. Boneparth had been surprised not to hear from nervous clients; he later realized his repeated reminders to them — markets go up, markets go down, recessions are inevitable — had had their desired effect.
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Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991, and a further layer of chaos was added in 2015 with the formation in the north of a splinter group of former al Shabaab insurgents who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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The Iranian authorities moved Thursday to project the appearance of normalcy after a week of violent protests over gasoline price increases, partly restoring internet access and decreeing that the mayhem that convulsed the country was really a foreign-backed failure.
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The former British colony, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, has been convulsed by often-violent protests over the past five months, prompting China's central government to issue strict warnings that it will not allow the turmoil to continue.
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He waited to board a bus in the Central Ward between a busy new shopping center and grass-covered plots that have been bald since the bloody racial upheaval he remembered from his childhood that convulsed the city 50 years ago.
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BALTIMORE, Sept 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Baltimore was convulsed by protests in 2015 over the death of a young black man in police custody, a handful of people in the eastern U.S. city started worrying about a related issue: food.
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A comedian telling jokes about portagees, pakes and buddhaheads could leave an audience convulsed without rancor, since none of his targets had ever oppressed any of the others, every family had roots in immigrant labor, and they were all related anyway.
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Investors are jittery ahead of a July 6 deadline when the United States is set to impose tariffs on $34 billion worth of goods from China, the epicentre of a heated trade dispute between Washington and major economies that has convulsed financial markets.
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But after multiple reports that Williams, the last inmate Arkansas executed, convulsed on the gurney long after midazolam should have knocked him unconscious, attorneys from the Arkansas Federal Defender's Office called for an independent investigation into all of Arkansas' April executions last Friday.
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In some ways, that is an extraordinary thing for a pope to be celebrating; the fact that the Vatican lost its sway over northern Europe, and blood-letting between Catholics and Lutherans convulsed the centre of Europe for a couple of centuries.
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Although Japan's Nikkei 225 has convulsed this month, losing almost 13 percent before bouncing back on Monday to gain over 7 percent, China's was muted yesterday in its first day back from the week-long new year holiday, closing up 0.5 percent.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of peaceful protesters marched Sunday on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach to demand the ouster of suspended President Dilma Rousseff, a reminder of the political upheaval that has convulsed Brazil in the run-up to the Olympics.
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Investors are jittery ahead of a July 6 deadline when the United States is set to impose tariffs on $34 billion worth of goods from China, the epicenter of a heated trade dispute between Washington and major economies that has convulsed financial markets.
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In days of fighting that convulsed Juba, the inquiry said, two Chinese peacekeepers were killed and several wounded, and 182 buildings in the United Nations compound were struck by bullets, mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades as thousands of civilians sought refuge there.
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Investors are jittery ahead of a July 6 deadline when the United States is set to impose tariffs on $27.2 billion worth of goods from China, the epicenter of a heated trade dispute between Washington and major economies that has convulsed financial markets.
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Matt Drudge — who has kept his look steady even as everything else in media has convulsed — made a striking change Monday, beginning with a "NUKE YOU" banner headline: His photos, usually colorful amid the spare typewriter front, were suddenly black and white.
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The prime minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, whose Georgian Dream party has at times been accused by rivals of favoring Russia, said in an interview that Georgia's geopolitical orientation, an issue that once convulsed Georgian politics, had been firmly settled in favor of the West.
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While the authorities had not ruled out terrorism by Monday night, the panic that convulsed Utrecht, a city of 330,000 with a diverse population, appeared to partly reflect heightened nerves from the Christchurch killings three days earlier, which left 000 people dead.
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Whereas Crazy Rich Asians gussied up Asian modernity in luxury fabrics and candied colors, The Farewell calls to mind the portentous aesthetic of Jia Zhangke, a Chinese filmmaker renowned for chronicling the changes that convulsed his country after Deng Xiaoping opened its economy.
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" As the foundation wrote: "The speech did not seem so vital at the time … But from the perspective of 2018, with Britain convulsed by Brexit, Bruges grows ever larger in significance, to a degree that could cause us to overplay the speech.
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While diplomats and rebel groups negotiated behind the scenes, Muscat was known for its internationally acclaimed opera house, which was inaugurated by Plácido Domingo and Franco Zeffirelli in the fall of 2011 — at a time when the surrounding region was convulsed in protests.
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SACABA, Bolivia/LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivians have taken down roadblocks and struck peace deals after a month of protests and deadly clashes that have convulsed the nation after a disputed election in October and the resignation of long-term leader Evo Morales.
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Wall Street's main stock indexes were little changed, hovering near record highs, as investors awaited concrete news on whether U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports would take effect on Sunday, a potential turning point in the two countries' trade dispute that has convulsed markets.
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VALENCIA/CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities quelled an attack on a military base near the city of Valencia by soldiers and armed civilians on Sunday, killing two of them in a dramatic escalation of unrest in the protest-convulsed South American nation.
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Luis Felipe, also known as "El Vocho", was captured earlier in the day in the western state of Michoacan, which has long been convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs and where unrest is not uncommon after the detention of senior cartel figures.
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Yemen has been convulsed for more than two years by a conflict between Houthi militants from the north of the country and a military alliance of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, which views the Houthis as proxies for its regional rival, Iran.
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In strikingly different ways, two books, one by Kaya Genc, a novelist and essayist, and the other by Ece Temelkuran, a journalist, rise to this challenge and chronicle the changes that have convulsed Turkey since the current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came to power.
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James says he could only "stomach" watching video of the shooting once, and as a lifelong Baton Rouge resident he says he was disappointed that the controversial shootings that have convulsed so many other parts of the nation have made their way to his home.
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Instead, Son appears to have leapt on the opportunity to buy ARM at a time when Britain was convulsed by the political and financial fall-out from the vote to leave the EU, which prompted sterling's fall to a 31-year low against the dollar.
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The U.S. five-year Treasury yield also fell to around 20.1 percent in Asia trading hours, its lowest since June 216, when markets convulsed during the taper tantrum after the U.S. Federal Reserve first broached the idea that it would taper its quantitative easing program.
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" International panic: Global markets also convulsed Tuesday after Trump called for further tariffs against China, according to The Wall Street Journal, which called it "the starkest sign yet that the threat of a trade war--once dismissed by many investors as unlikely--is rising again.
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We were reminded that most of what has happened over the past six seasons, not just the Stark strife but the various wars, betrayals and other machinations that have convulsed the world of this story, were triggered when Robert Baratheon called Ned to King's Landing.
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More evidence of irregularities will almost certainly emerge in the coming days, but is unlikely to cast much doubt on Putin's win, and even less likely to provoke anti-Putin protests similar to those which convulsed Russia after fraud marred parliamentary elections in 2011.
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The sentencing marks the culmination of a criminal case that has convulsed the community of Perris, California, some 70 miles (113 km) east of Los Angeles, since an emaciated 17-year-old girl climbed out of a window of the family's home and called 911.
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Then, while much of Europe was convulsed with anger and fear as more than a million asylum seekers poured in from distant wars, Greeks helped rescue refugees at sea, or greeted them with empathy as they traversed the country en route to northern Europe.
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In a single week in March, as financial markets convulsed and major parts of the economy began shutting down, banks made over $23.5 billion in new loans to companies — twice as much in new lending as they would ordinarily extend in a full year.
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UBAY I. Cebu Strait BATASAN I. 1/2 mile Philippine Sea Manila CEBU I. TAAL VOLCANO Cebu Strait PHILIPPINES BOHOL I. Sulu Sea Detail area, right 25 miles 250 miles By The New York Times In 2013, Batasan was convulsed by a 203-magnitude earthquake.
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She wants to explain much of the chaos that has convulsed the Middle East and Southeast Asia for the last four decades — the Iran-Iraq war, the upheavals in Afghanistan, the assassinations in Pakistan and the civil wars in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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"Detroit" is set mainly during the rioting that convulsed that city in the summer of 1967, and in it "them" is most often used — along with cognates like "those people" and "you people" — by white soldiers and police officers to refer to African-American citizens.
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Featured Article: "With Brutal Crackdown, Iran Is Convulsed by Worst Unrest in 40 Years" What started as a protest over a surprise increase in gasoline prices in Iran turned into widespread demonstrations met with a systematic repression that left at least 180 people dead.
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HONG KONG — When Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Saturday that she was suspending an unpopular bill to allow extraditions to mainland China, she expressed hope that her action would restore peace and order in the city, which has been convulsed by demonstrations.
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In 2016, even as the election was playing out on a national stage, the programming community was convulsed with a debate over whether the functional programming conference LambdaConf should rescind its speaking invitation to neo-reactionary ideologue and computer scientist Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug.
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By a vote of 2016-48, the deeply-divided Senate gave the lifetime job to Kavanaugh, 53, after weeks of fierce debate over sexual violence, alcohol abuse and his angry response to the allegations that convulsed the nation just weeks before congressional elections on Nov. 6.
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Shares in Britain's listed supermarkets have been hammered in recent years as the grocery market has been convulsed by changing shopping habits, the rise of German discounters Aldi and Lidl and price competition, and analysts see AmazonFresh as a potential challenge to the whole industry over time.
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They are part of a core of combative young agitators, garbed in black, who have come to define the antigovernment protests that have convulsed this semiautonomous territory for more than four months and that have posed a bold challenge to the authority of China's ruling Communist Party.
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But the university has long been a hotbed of protest — Luis Miranda himself participated in protests when he was a student — and in recent years, it has been convulsed by a budget crisis that has led to proposals for rising student fees and declining staff benefits.
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The revelations have convulsed a country that only two and a half years ago saw the ouster of Mr. Moon's predecessor and conservative enemy, Park Geun-hye, in a scandal that erupted over academic favoritism shown to the daughter of a close friend of Ms. Park.
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During last month's attack, the sight of Mr. Palmer wounded on the cobbled courtyard in front of Parliament became a powerful symbol of an assault at the heart of British democracy that convulsed the country and spurred debate over whether security at Parliament needed to be increased.
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THE HAGUE — Embarrassed by its failure to prevent Europe's worst atrocities since World War II, the United Nations Security Council created a tribunal in 1993 to track down and punish those responsible for the horrific violence against civilians that convulsed the Balkans during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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The corridors of Congress emptied on Wednesday - the day after Janot's request to the Supreme Court was made public - as the political class was convulsed by speculation over who would be on the secret list and how to avoid joining more than 80 businessmen and politicians already in jail.
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The kingdom had been convulsed by occasional protests in the island state, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, since authorities crushed 2011 protests by mainly Shi'ites demanding a bigger share in running the country, which is dominated by its Sunni King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
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For over a decade, different parts of the vast region of Darfur have been convulsed by fighting between government forces, pro-government militias and rebel groups, producing a death toll that could be in the tens of thousands and displacing more than two million people from their homes.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nearly a year before Keith Lamont Scott was shot to death by the police in an episode that has convulsed this city, his wife applied for a protective order against him that said he owned a gun and had threatened to kill family members with it.
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After hundreds of sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne apparently involving male migrants from North Africa, Germany was convulsed over whether such ugly cultural clashes would become standard fare in a country that accepted more than 800,000 asylum seekers last year from the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Yemen, one of the poorest nations in the Arab world, has been convulsed by civil strife since the Houthis, Shiite rebels from the north aligned with Iran, stormed the capital, Sana, in 423 and ousted the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the Americans' main counterterrorism partner.
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"Thank you to all of you that reminded me every day that we didn't win last year, just in case I had forgotten," Auriemma said on Monday as UConn fans convulsed in laughter after the Huskies defeated South Carolina, the 2017 champion, in the final of the Albany Regional.
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The moment was a turning point for the rapid and fitful negotiations over the stimulus measure, which came together over a handful of frenzied days on Capitol Hill, as global markets convulsed with worry and lawmakers scrambled to agree before Covid-2600 could infect their ranks and cripple Congress.
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Yemen, one of the poorest nations in the Arab world, has been convulsed by civil strife since the Houthis, Shia rebels from the north aligned with Iran, stormed the capital, Sana, in 2014 and then ousted the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the Americans' main counterterrorism partner.
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I felt a different guilt about my patient, wretchedly certain that if I had only been more eloquent and more persuasive, his mother would have come around to the idea of vaccination and he would have been spared the coughing paroxysms that convulsed his little body, often followed by vomiting.
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All across France The student demonstrations that convulsed Paris in spring 1968 — les événements de mai, or just mai — are among the most cinematic upheavals of that year, and not only because the black-and-white photographs of attractive young people throwing rocks at riot police look like movie stills.
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Families in Baton Rouge are the latest to experience first-hand the aftermath of police killings of black men that have convulsed the nation in the past two years, following communities from New York and Baltimore to Ferguson, Missouri, where riots erupted after police fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — As Syria convulsed from the bloodiest week there in months, the United States and Russia declared on Friday that they had won agreement for a new partial truce in several strategic areas, but that it would not immediately include Aleppo, the divided city where recent attacks killed more than 200 people.
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PARIS — President François Hollande of France announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing a proposal to strip French citizenship from dual nationals convicted of terrorism, ending a monthslong debate that convulsed his governing Socialist Party, dominated political discussion after the November terrorist attacks, and led to the resignation of the justice minister.
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Herman Deparice-Okomba, director of the Montreal-based Center for The Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence, said the sheer obscenity of someone gunning people down in a place of worship in peace-loving Canada had convulsed the country because it shattered Canadians' image of themselves as the ultimate humanistic, open nation.
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LONDON — President Trump prides himself on being the great disrupter, but when he arrives in London on Monday for a state visit, it's not clear how much more he can shake up a country that is already convulsed, divided and utterly exhausted by the long debate over its departure from the European Union.
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LONDON — The last time Queen Elizabeth II presided over the opening of the British Parliament, only 66 days ago, she arrived in a gilded, horse-drawn carriage and wore an 18-foot velvet cape — a regal symbol of continuity at a time when her country was being convulsed by the debate over Brexit.
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The convulsed, predatory "untitled: pinkspree; 2018" (548), an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall unholy marriage of pink-on-black triangles and pentagons, seems to lurch forward, jaws open, from a far corner, while its vulnerable, satchel-sized variation, "untitled: spree (green); 2018" (2018), calls out its aggression from the other side of the room.
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Ms. Mearns, in the ballet's second half, was visibly convulsed by one emotion after another: jealous shock as she saw the Poet plant a kiss on the Sleepwalker's lips; vengeful malice as she poured her venomous report into the Baron's ear; shame and grief as she sees the Poet stabbed to death by the Baron.
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Hudson extolled the power of positive thoughts and minimal desires on early songs like "Attitude" and "Don't Need It," and his intoxicating stage presence made the message stick—he hurled himself into crowds, convulsed on stage floors, and even back-flipped on beat, all with a controlled snarl that earned him the title Throat.
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BEIJING — A former employee of Britain's consulate in Hong Kong said on Wednesday that the Chinese secret police tortured and beat him, deprived him of sleep and hung him in a spread-eagled pose for hours as they sought information about what they alleged was foreign interference in the protests that have convulsed the city.
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Santiago, the capital and largest city, has been convulsed by protests that were sparked by an increase in subway fares but that have become an expression of broader grievances: against the poor quality of public health care and education; against low wages and the rising cost of living; against the meager pensions that Chileans receive in old age.
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The same year, at least 200 people in that age group killed someone else, according to the F.B.I. And while homicides committed by people with dementia are not everyday occurrences, they have convulsed families across the country, with spouses, children and friends falling victim to loved ones who became disoriented, pulled guns from hiding places and then struggled to explain their actions.
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The United States, an implacable foe during the Cold War but now presided over by a president determined to "get along with Russia," is convulsed and distracted by impeachment; Britain, the other main pillar of a trans-Atlantic alliance that Mr. Putin has worked for years to undermine, is also turning inward and just voted for a government that vows to exit the European Union by the end of January.
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After two days of campaigning across Iowa and New Hampshire this week as Twitter and cable news convulsed over his choice of footwear, the voter's question Thursday afternoon forced him to address the issue (he had jettisoned the boots Thursday for a black pair of slip-on dress shoes.) The Florida senator said he had no idea that people were making such a fuss until his children told him on Wednesday night.
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ET. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect here HONG-KONG-PROTESTS/ Hong Kong police threaten to use live bullets as standoff with protesters escalates HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police threatened on Monday to fire live bullets if "rioters" did not stop using lethal weapons in the latest flare up in anti-government protests that have convulsed the Chinese-ruled city for five months.
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The singer wasn't onstage for one of the most powerful dance moments, a break between acts when a row of performers convulsed gracefully at the lip of the stage to irregular breaths, set to a recording of Madonna intoning lyrics from "Rescue Me." Madonna spoke to and with the audience repeatedly, taking advantage of the intimacy of the room to tell bawdy jokes, apologize for starting the show late and sip a fan's beer.
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But if the planet reaches three or four or five degrees of warming, the world will be convulsed with human suffering at such a scale—so many million refugees, half again as many wars, droughts and famines, and economic growth made impossible on so much of the planet—that its citizens will have difficulty regarding the recent past as a course of progress or even a phase in a cycle, or in fact anything but a true and substantial reversal.
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The finalists are Marguerite Barankitse, founder of Maison Shalom, which began as a center for orphans during ethnic upheavals that convulsed Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s; Dr. Tom Catena, a physician from Amsterdam, N.Y., who founded the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Sudan's war-ravaged Nuba Mountains eight years ago; Syeda Ghulam Fatima, who runs the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, an organization in Lahore, Pakistan, that aids destitute workers and who was once shot because of her work; and the Rev.
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