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Protesters call for greener, fairer EU farm policy
Farmers and activists from all over the continent converged on European Union headquarters Wednesday to push for a food policy that is fairer to ...
France ups embassy security after prophet cartoons
France stepped up security at some of its embassies on Wednesday after a satirical Parisian weekly published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad
Indian government works to shore up coalition
India's ruling Congress party worked to shore up its governing coalition Wednesday after a crucial ally withdrew its support in protest over a raft ...
Nationalism may rise under Japan's next gov't
One is a former prime minister known for his nationalistic views. A second is a hawkish former defense chief. And a third is the son of Tokyo's ...
Militants claim Afghan attack is revenge for film
Islamic militants sought Tuesday to capitalize on anger over an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States, saying a suicide bombing that ...
Kremlin halts USAID work in Russia
The United States said Tuesday it is ending the U.S. Agency for International Development's operations in Russia after a Kremlin demand that the aid ...
Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film
While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for ...
Japan businesses in China hit as protests rage
Scores of Japanese-owned factories and stores in China were shuttered Tuesday as anti-Japan demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities. At stake are ...
More than 180 Occupy Wall Street arrests in NYC
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement's anniversary on Monday by clogging intersections in the city's financial district, marching to ...
Tunisia Islamist flees mosque where he holed up
A hardline Muslim leader blamed for encouraging last week's violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia fled through a police cordon ...
Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon
In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign ...
Latest developments on anti-Islam film protests
Here's a look at protests and reaction across the Middle East and elsewhere Monday over an anti-Islam film produced in the U.S. ridiculing the Prophet ...
US diplomats in Beirut burning classified material
Diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon ...
Bahrain charges 7 police with uprising abuses
Bahrain says it has charged seven police lieutenants with alleged abuses against suspected anti-government protesters, including using torture to ...
China reins in rowdy anti-Japan demonstrations
China moved to tamp down rising anti-Japan sentiment after a weekend of sometimes violent demonstrations, threatening Monday to arrest lawbreakers and ...
Togo militia stops protest against president
A militia of some 500 men loyal to President Faure Gnassingbe prevented a march by opposition groups over the weekend. Bare-chested militia men armed ...
1 year after encampment began, Occupy in disarray
Occupy Wall Street began to disintegrate in rapid fashion last winter, when the weekly meetings in New York City devolved into a spectacle of ...
Spanish rail and subway transport hit by strikes
Hundreds of Spanish train services have been canceled, resulting in traffic jams on roads into Madrid and Barcelona, as rail and subway workers staged ...
South Africa police halt peaceful strikers' march
South African police halted a peaceful march by striking miners without violence Sunday, a day after firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse ...
Clashes over prophet film; Hezbollah urges demos
Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, ...
Afghan insider attack kills 4 US troops
Afghan police killed four American soldiers coming to their aid after a checkpoint attack Sunday, the third assault by government forces or insurgents ...
Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash ...
Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al-Qaida transit
Syria accused neighboring Turkey Sunday of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross into its territory, as the government and opposition said ...
UN ambassador says Libya attack was spontaneous
A deadly assault on a U.S. consulate in Libya was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said ...