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Protesters torch buildings after Egypt rulingEgyptian protesters torched buildings in Cairo and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt international shipping on the Suez Canal, as a court ruling on a deadly soccer riot stoked rage in a country beset by worsening security. More… |
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Protesters target Suez after soccer riot verdictEgyptian protesters tried to disrupt shipping on the Suez Canal, an artery for global trade, after a court confirmed death sentences for 21 soccer fans from the canal city of Port Said on Saturday. However, canal authorities said More… |
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Israel using deadly force on unarmed protestersIsrael is breaking its own rules of engagement by using deadly force to disperse unarmed Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli rights group B'Tselem reported on Monday. Israeli forces have killed 56 peo More… |
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Protesters shut down W Libya's main oil refineryWounded soldiers protested outside western Libya's main oil refinery on Thursday, closing operations for a second time this month, a company spokesman said, and raising fears of a petrol shortage in the war-battered country. A More… |
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Egypt protesters set fire to campaign HQA group of Egyptian protesters set fire to the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo on Monday, the state news agency reported, after the ex-prime minister made it into the second round of the vote. More… |
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Syrian army opens fire on anti-Assad crowdSyrian security forces fired live ammunition to break up a protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday, killing at least one person, opposition activists said. A Chinese envoy met the Syrian leader earlier in the day More… |
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Malls in Bahrain closed to stop protestersProtesters took to malls and shopping centres in the heart of Manama yesterday (February 14) in an attempt to camouflage plans to storm the former GCC (Pearl) roundabout. Police ordered the Marina Mall, Ramez supermarket, Lulu Centre More… |
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Cairo protesters, police in clash againProtesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian interior ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of tear gas. It was the fourth day of More… |
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Protesters besiege Cairo ministry over soccer deathsProtesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, pushing their protest against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst soccer disaster. One p More… |
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Police fire tear gas at Oakland, 200 arrestedRiot police fought running skirmishes with anti-Wall Street protesters on Saturday, firing tear gas and bean bag projectiles and arresting more than 200 people in clashes that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator. Three pol More… |
