May Day protests across the globe
A McDonald’s restaurant is hit with petrol bombs thrown by activists Tuesday during the annual May Day rally in the center of Paris.
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Workers and activists marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies to demand their government address labor issues. Here are some of the events around the world.
Protesters in Tokyo wear masks of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
(Koji Sasahara / AP)Police in Instanbul, Turkey, detain several demonstrators as the crowd tried to march toward Istanbul’s Taksim Square, which is symbolic as the center of protests in which dozens of people were killed in 1977.
(Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)Russians wave flags and sing songs as they walk on Red Square to mark May Day in Moscow, with St. Basil’s Cathedral in the background.
(Pavel Golovkin / AP)Protesters chant slogans during a May Day rally in Los Angeles.
(Jae C. Hong / AP)A man with a German flag stands between the policemen during a demonstration of right-wing parties: National Democratic Party, known by its German initials NPD, and Die Rechte (“The Right”) during May Day in Erfurt, Germany.
(Jens Meyer / AP)A boy walks in Rome among 1,029 white silhouettes installed for the event “Working for a Living,” honoring workplace death victims.
(Massimo Percossi / AP)Police scuffle with demonstrators during May Day protests in Istanbul.
(Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, second from right, joins hundreds of May Day protesters Tuesday as they pass the National Museum of the American Indian in New York.
(Mark Lennihan / AP)Protesters march on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
(Mark Lennihan / AP)Demonstrators shout slogans during a May Day rally in Pamplona, northern Spain. More than 70 cities across Spain are holding May Day marches.
(Alvaro Barrientos / AP)Protesters join a rally organized by the Communist-affiliated PAME labor union outside the Greek parliament in central Athens as the country’s unions brace for more austerity measures imposed by bailout lenders.
(Petros Giannakouris / AP)Police detain a demonstrator Tuesday during May Day protests in Istanbul, Turkey.
(Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)People in fancy dress and holding banners gather to protest against the far right group Nordic Resistance Movement on Tuesday in the town of Ludvika in central Sweden.
(Ulf Palm / AP)Balloons and flags fly over the crowd as people walk on Red Square to mark May Day in Moscow.
(Pavel Golovkin / AP)Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions carry flags Tuesday during a May Day rally at Seoul Plaza in Seoul, South Korea.
(Lee Jin-man / AP)About 5,000 workers and activists rally Tuesday near the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, to protest the failure of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to fulfill a major campaign promise to end contractualization, the widespread practice of short-term employment.
(Bullit Marquez / AP)A Cambodian worker participates in a May Day gathering in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where hundreds rallied for better working conditions.
(Heng Sinith / AP)A Cambodian worker marches Tuesday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
(Heng Sinith / AP)Thousands of workers rally Tuesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, urging the government to raise wages, ban outsourcing practices and offer free health care.
(Achmad Ibrahim / AP)Workers wear safety hats and hold banners during a march Tuesday in Hong Kong.
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