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Pakistani clerics to boycott peace conference
Pakistani clerics upset with anti-Taliban comments coming out of Afghanistan said Monday they will boycott a conference of religious leaders being ...
Workers at Spain's Iberia begin 15 days of strikes
Protesters clashed with police at Madrid's international airport as ground staff and cabin crews for Spain's Iberia began 15 days of strikes to ...
Egypt soccer protests hit restive Suez Canal city
Thousands of soccer fans enforced a work stoppage Sunday in Egypt's restive city of Port Said to protest what they called government "injustices," ...
Cuban dissident blogger starts world tour
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez set off on a three-month, dozen-nation world tour Sunday, after a new law eliminated the exit permit that had ...
Shiites lash out after Pakistan bombing kills 81
Members of the Pakistani Shiite Hazara community Sunday threatened to hold widespread protests if the government did not arrest within 48 hours the ...
Bulgarians protest foreign power companies
Thousands of Bulgarians protested on Sunday against rising electricity and heating bills, and police clashed with demonstrators throwing eggs and ...
Death toll in Pakistani bombing climbs to 81
The death toll from a horrific bombing that tore through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of southwestern Pakistan ...
Spaniards protest against evictions
Demonstrations were held across Spain on Saturday to protest harsh repossession laws that have led to hundreds of thousands of evictions during the ...
Thousands in Portugal protest austerity cuts
Several thousand people are protesting in Lisbon against austerity cuts the government says are needed to help Portugal out of recession. The nation ...
Egypt's police to get 100,000 9mm pistols
An Egyptian security official said Saturday that the interior ministry has agreed to purchase 100,000 new 9mm pistols after low-ranking policemen went ...
Bangladeshis demand death for war crimes convict
For many in Bangladesh, the "V'' for victory sign was more than they could bear. They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass ...
Egypt: Islamists rally in Cairo against opposition
Several thousand hard-line Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday against a recent wave of violent anti-government protests, while liberal activists ...
Palestinian rally for hunger striker turns violent
Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers on Friday at several demonstrations in the West Bank held to support a prisoner observing an intermittent ...
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 ...
Zimbabwe police hit Valentine's Day marchers
A women's activism group said Friday Zimbabwe police fired tear gas and baton charged to disperse Valentine's Day marchers, herding 195 people ...
Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier in Kashmir
Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the makeshift border separating Indian and Pakistani held Kashmir, officials said ...
Sunnis gather in Iraqi cities in mass protests
Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims rallied on Friday in several Iraqi cities to protest what they describe as unfair treatment by the country's ...
Egypt military offers rare apology for child death
Egypt's military made a rare admission and apology on Thursday for mistakenly shooting and killing a 12-year-old street vendor in Cairo, a day after ...
Putin: NGOs mustn't meddle in Russia's affairs
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned foreign-funded non-government organizations against meddling in the country's affairs. Putin also ...
Tunisia's premier to field new govt or resign
Tunisia's prime minister will continue to oppose his own political party and seek to form a government of technocrats by Saturday to solve the ...
Clashes mark Bahrain's second uprising anniversary
Security forces in Bahrain clashed on Thursday with anti-government protesters in street battles that left at least one boy dead amid high tensions ...
Celebs, enviros arrested at WH pipeline protest
Celebrities and environmental activists, including lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and civil rights leader Julian Bond, were arrested Wednesday after ...
Egyptian officials accused of covering up torture
An Egyptian opposition group accused the government on Wednesday of covering up torture at the hands of security forces. The charge came after a ...
Egypt's women fighting back against sex assaults
Egyptian women are growing increasingly angry and militant as they deal with one of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring: an epidemic of ...
Lebanese prevent tankers from crossing into Syria
Lebanese protesters closed two major roads in northern Lebanon Wednesday to prevent fuel tankers from crossing into Syria, Lebanon's state-run news ...