A case was registered against them at the Hayathnagar police station for indulging in hate speech and inciting hatred and causing provocation for violence through an event organized by the cultural team of the BJP on Telangana Formation Day (June 2).

Source: https://www.siasat.com/police-raid-on-telangana-cong-war-room-shows-kcr-govts-true-colours-congress-2806756/

“According to information received, the suspect and his cohorts, without any provocation, started shooting indiscriminately in Omor Community, Ayamelum LGA and murdered six persons and inflicted serious injuries on two others.”

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/02/07/six-killed-as-two-anambra-communities-resume-hostilities-over-land/

Antisemitic provocation in the guise of anti-Zionism — which is followed by justified criticism — then prompt complaints about “censorship” and “academic freedom,” which is a standard BDS tactic.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/03/anti-israel-efforts-spread-to-campus-and-elsewhere-in-worrying-sign/

A sense of provocation is immediately evident in his work but what strikes me the most — and what I wanted to focus on — is instead his creative freedom, his narrative skill and his great love of cinema.

Source: https://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/armani-guy-bourdin-exhibition-opening-armani-silos-milan-fashion-week-1235537125/

Ben-Gvir on Tuesday visited the flashpoint holy site’s compound in East Jerusalem, which was denounced by the Palestinian side as a provocation.

Source: https://www.mangalorean.com/palestinian-diplomat-stresses-importance-of-unsc-session-on-al-aqsa-mosque-issue/

Biden’s other concern about sending F-16s is that they would cross a line that Vladimir Putin might regard as a provocation, to which he might respond by escalating the fight.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/biden-ukraine-f16-fighter-planes.html?via=rss

But the episode is the kind of provocation that could drive China and the U.S. into a Cold War-style conflict, The Economist notes.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/briefing/super-bowl-sunday.html

China calls U.S. warships in South China Sea 'a provocation'

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/23/chinese-ships-block-philippine-coast-guard-in-latest-south-china-sea-standoff

China hit back on Wednesday after Biden referred to President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”, saying the remarks were absurd and a provocation, an unexpected flare-up following attempts by both sides to reduce friction.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1791782/new-zealand-pm-disagrees-with-biden-says-xi-jinping-not-a-dictator

Control your emotions, whatever the provocation.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-12441407/Horoscopes-stars-week-Sally-Brompton.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

For a decade, he has been a master of carefully calibrated provocation.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/social-justice-rebellion-satanic-temple/675481/?utm_source=feed

From Beijing’s point of view, the visit of a foreign executive or politician to Taiwan is a provocation.

Source: https://houstonianonline.com/americans-have-access-to-four-additional-military-bases-in-the-philippines/

Going further back, it was break dance steps that boys felt compelled to break into without any provocation or need of any sort whatsoever, and without the slightest regard to the occasion.

Source: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/01/16/man-see-man-do/

I am not saying that the provocation justified the slap.

Source: https://www.informationng.com/2023/05/seun-kuti-suffering-from-ptsd-reno-omokri-pleads-for-clemency.html

It is not clear exactly what provocation North Korea is referring to, but an expert in he matter claims that the North is now going to rebuild the 10 frontline posts it was forced to destroy five years ago, and add “better weapons” to the area.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/north-korea-scraps-weapons-pact-31507013

Just a few hours after that, the usual conspiracies about the video being a staged provocation began bubbling to the surface on social media and in the group chats I quietly monitor.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/17/russia-ukraine-war-crimes-putin-imperialism/

Justice Chapple found few mitigating factors other than Hernandez’s relatively young age at the time and the provocation of his father-in-law throwing the bottle.

Source: https://caymannewsservice.com/2023/07/mango-row-shooting-lands-man-21-years-in-jail/

Manchester’s ordinance defines a potentially vicious dog as an animal that — without provocation and outside of its owner’s property — has bitten or tried to attack a person or who has injured or killed another animal.

Source: https://www.kjan.com/index.php/2023/07/manchester-considers-update-to-its-vicious-dog-ordinance/

Mao accused Washington D.C. of “inciting, supporting and assisting” the Philippine “infringement and provocation at sea.”

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/12/15/us-uk-canada-ec-australia-japan-fms-slam-china-over-wps-incidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-uk-canada-ec-australia-japan-fms-slam-china-over-wps-incidents

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The West African bloc ECOWAS rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democratic rule, with a commissioner describing the slow timeline as a provocation.

Source: https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/africa/3214839/niger-juntas-3-year-transition-plan-is-a-provocation-says-west-african-regional-bloc.html