A court in Bolivia has sentenced the right-wing opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to six months of pretrial detention a day after he was arrested on terrorism charges linked to social unrest three years ago.
The protesters are followers of the influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who vowed to cause unrest if Parliament tried to approve a government that wasn't in his view free of foreign influence and corruption.
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And unrest in Pakistan continues following a court ruling that would allow former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to be held for eight days after his arrest Tuesday.
Protasevich is a Belarusian journalist well known for being highly critical of the Lukashenko regime, and after his arrest was charged with " mass unrest" .
The United Nations says there has been a huge increase in armed violence against schools in Haiti as widespread unrest starts to affect the education system.
The crops can also be affected by climate, disease and even political turmoil in the countries where the plants are grown, which further limits commercial production.