Riots

Riots

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  At least 22 people injured in Macedonia riots

  Violent ethnic riots rattled Macedonia's capital, culminating on Saturday with hundreds raging through the city center, clashing with police, ... 

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  Egypt rights groups allege rising police brutality

  Egyptian rights groups alleged Wednesday that police abuse and brutality are on the rise in detention centers and at demonstrations, which have ... 

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  Greeks strike, march in protest against austerity

  Tens of thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday as unions staged a general strike to protest government ... 

• Guinea police disperse anti-government rioters

  Anti-riot police fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who barricaded streets and threw stones at vehicles in the capital, Conakry. 

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  Protest marches, clashes expand in tense Bahrain

  Thousands of anti-government marchers jammed a major highway Friday as clashes broke out for a second day between security forces and protesters ... 

• Russia charges Georgian deputy with plotting riots

  Russia's top investigative agency on Thursday charged a lawmaker from the former Soviet republic of Georgia with plotting anti-government riots. 

• Panathinaikos wins cup final marred by violence

  Fan violence marred the Greek Cup final on Sunday, forcing the game to be suspended for an hour before Panathinaikos finished off an 81-78 win over ... 

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  Protests turn to street clashes across Egypt

  Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while ... 

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  Pussy Riot appeal conviction to European Court

  Lawyers for three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot have contested their convictions in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. 

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  Beating, torture fuel sense Egypt police unchanged

  The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the pavement as they cracked down on protesters 

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  Video of police abuse stokes anger in Egypt

  Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger ... 

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  At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash

  Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security ... 

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  Pussy Riot cathedral video banned for 'extremism'

  Footage of feminist rockers Pussy Riot's irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral last year has been banned in ... 

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  Greek subway staff end strike after police raid

  Striking subway workers in Athens returned to the job Friday, hours after the Greek government used riot police to evacuate holdouts from a train ... 

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  Car accident triggers unrest in Azerbaijan town

  It began late at night with a minor car accident. By midday Thursday, a hotel had been burned to the ground, several expensive vehicles torched and ... 

• Obama inaugural speech references Stonewall riots

  President Barack Obama referenced the Stonewall gay-rights riots in his inaugural address, classing them as a civil rights watershed along with key ... 

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  Part of courthouse burnt in Egypt clashes

  A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, ... 

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  29 Belfast cops hurt in Catholic-Protestant clash

  Northern Ireland police fought day-and-night street battles with Protestant militants Saturday as a protest march to Belfast City Hall degenerated ... 

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  North African nations take different reform routes

  Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ... 

• 11 police hurt, 15 rioters arrested in N. Ireland

  Northern Ireland police are appealing to Protestant militants to show some Christmas spirit and stop stirring street violence as part of a dispute ... 

• Greek leftist legislator attacked at soccer match

  A leftist Greek lawmaker was attacked by three men at a soccer match Sunday who he said identified themselves as members of the extreme right Golden ... 

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  Protestant militants target Northern Ireland party

  Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most compromise-minded ... 

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  Greek clashes at protests over 2008 police killing

  Greek riot police used tear gas Thursday to disperse youths throwing firebombs and stones during an Athens protest to mark the fourth anniversary of ... 

• Court bans video of Pussy Riot's performance

  The video of punk band Pussy Riot's performance in Russia's main cathedral is extremist and must be removed from the web, a Moscow court ruled ...