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AP PHOTOS: Turkey protesters face riot police
Hundreds of police in riot gear attempted to clear Istanbul's central Taksim Square of anti-government protesters who have been occupying the area for ...
Turkish media slammed for poor riot coverage
Dense clouds of acrid, choking tear gas may have been blanketing the central square of Turkey's largest city, but it was penguins that dominated the ...
Moscow's top court rejects Pussy Riot appeal
Moscow's highest court has rejected an appeal by punk group Pussy Riot against their sentence for a protest against Vladimir Putin. Moscow City Court ...
England, Ireland play again _ 18 years after riot
For the first time since hooligans rioted and forced their match to be abandoned 18 years ago, the England and Ireland football teams will take to the ...
Police hunt for Sweden rioters after violent week
Swedish police say they are looking for perpetrators involved in the weeklong riots in Stockholm suburbs that have resulted in some 220 reported ...
Swedish capital again wracked by nightly rioting
Police say that overnight violence in suburban districts of Stockholm was less intense than previous nights but as many as 25 cars had been burned.
Riot-weary Stockholm police get reinforcements
Riot-weary Stockholm police were reinforced on Friday with officers from other parts of Sweden as the capital prepared for more unrest after youths ...
Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths ...
Restaurant torched in 4th night of Sweden riots
Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish ...
Riots in Stockholm spread to more suburbs
Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after ...
2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden
Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered ...
Palestinian protester killed by Israeli army fire
Israeli forces shot and killed a teenage Palestinian protester during a clash in the West Bank late Wednesday, raising tensions already heightened by ...
13 children die in Myanmar mosque fire
Police in Myanmar said they are investigating the head of a mosque and a Muslim teacher for possible negligence after a pre-dawn fire swept a ...
Uneasy calm in Kenya after court ruling on vote
Kenyan police deployed forces Sunday in the capital and the lakeside city of Kisumu to contain the continuing threat of violence after five people ...
Myanmar warns violence could threaten reforms
Myanmar's government warned Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns ...
Buddhists-Muslims violence spreads in Myanmar
Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country's heartland over the weekend, undermining ...
UN Myanmar envoy visits ruined city after violence
The top UN envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city destroyed in the country's worst explosion of Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling ...