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Green protestors stormed the stage in Brussels

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EU officials have threatened fines on banks that don’t take climate change seriously.

01/02/2024

PVV leader Geert Wilders reacts to the results of the Dutch election on Wednesday night.

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Dutch environmental groups 'shocked' by far-right election win

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24/11/2023

An activist from the group Just Stop Oil is arrested by police officers as they slow the traffic, marching on a road, in London, 30 October 2023.

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Over 60 Just Stop Oil activists arrested for blocking London road

The UK is following in other European countries footsteps with new powers to break up the climate group's slow marches.

31/10/2023

Dutch police uses a water cannon to disperse protestors who blocked a highway during a climate protest on Saturday 9 September 2023.

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3,000 detained as Dutch police fire water cannons at climate activists

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11/09/2023

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The statue of journalist Indro Montanelli with black and yellow tape

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Extinction Rebellion activists target controversial Italian statue

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion has targeted a controversial statue of an Italian journalist in Milan.

24/07/2023

Activists protest for climate justice outside parliament in Cape Town, South Africa,

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23/07/2023

Climate activist interrupts Swiss public debate on live television

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Climate activist interrupts live political debate in Geneva

Tempers frayed on Sunday after a climate activist from the group Extinction Rebellion interrupted a live political debate in Switzerland.

01/05/2023

Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker scaled the QEII Bridge last October for 36 hours, in a bid to get the government to end new oil and gas licences.

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Climate activists who scaled UK bridge jailed for 5 years

“I wasn’t expecting it to be that long," said one. Why were the pair given "draconian" sentences, and how has JSO reacted?

25/04/2023

‘Like a carnival’: What has XR’s colourful four-day protest achieved?

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Over 60,000 people came out for The Big One. What happens now?

Extinction Rebellion UK has vowed to 'step up' its campaigns, after the government failed to meet protesters' climate demands.

24/04/2023

Extinction Rebellion demonstrators take part in a rally on day two of the environmental action group's four days of action, in London, Saturday April 22, 2023

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Extinction Rebellion climate protestors rally in London

Climate protest group Extinction Rebellion is holding four days on protests in the UK.

22/04/2023

A demonstrator wears a costume as people protest during the Extinction Rebellion's 'The Big One'

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More than 30,000 people expected in London for 4 day climate protest

XR and 200 other organisations including Greenpeace are demanding an end to the fossil fuel era.

21/04/2023

‘Peaceful, safe, inclusive’: Here's why the UK’s biggest green groups are taking to the streets of London next month.

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Biggest climate protests since 2019 planned for London this weekend

Extinction Rebellion has issued a warning to the UK government that they will escalate their protests if their demands are not met.

21/04/2023

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18/02/2023

Activists and scientists got on the runway to protest private jets at Malpensa Private Airport in Italy.

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Ban private jets, say scientists blocking airports around the world

‘Valentine’s Day shouldn’t cost the earth,’ say activists stopping private jets from taking off at London Luton Airport.

14/02/2023

Climate activists atop a Dockland Light Railway carriage at Canary Wharf station in London, as part of the ongoing climate change protests in the capital, 17 April 2019

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Extinction Rebellion to stop disruptive UK protests

The environmental group said it would take a break from acts of public disruption in order to bring more people on board its campaign.

01/01/2023

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The letters offering a ‘lifeline’ to climate protesters in prison

Looking for a good Christmas deed? Writing to a protester behind bars is a very cheap way to show solidarity.

21/12/2022

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01/10/2022

Climate activists glued themselves together around the Speaker's Chair in UK parliament

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Police respond to climate protest inside UK parliament

The environmental protest group is demanding a citizens’ assembly on climate change.

02/09/2022

A misleading claims that Italians are angry at Ukrainian refugees for blocking a major road

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A misleading video has falsely claimed that Italian citizens were physically removing Ukrainian refugees from blocked roads, "frustrated" with anti-war protests.

21/07/2022

An Extinction Rebellion climate change protester sits with a lock around her neck attached to a bar on a door.

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Peaceful protestors could be jailed for 6 months under new UK laws

Changes to the law were previously thrown out by the UK’s House of Lords but are set to return under the new Queen’s Speech plan.

10/05/2022