Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the Group of 20 summit of rich and developing nations ended. Police shot “bean bags” filled with rubber pellets to disperse about 40 demonstrators that gathered at a
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Protesters back Sudanese woman in trousers
August 4th, 2009 |
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Dozens of protesters have rallied outside a Khartoum court in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public. A case has become a public test of Sudan’s indecency laws, Reuters reports.
Russia police detain anti-Kremlin protesters
August 1st, 2009 |
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Russian riot police detained an opposition leader and dozens of anti-Kremlin activists for trying to hold an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow on Friday. Hundreds of police officers surrounded Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square and forced 20 activists and one journalist into waiting vans, a Reuters witness said. A police spokesman said 47 people were detained in all, some even before the rally began.
Kahrizak Prison, Holding Iranian Protesters, Ordered Closed After Abuses
July 28th, 2009 |
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday released 140 people detained in Iran’s postelection turmoil and the supreme leader ordered the closure of a prison where human rights groups say jailed protesters were killed, in a nod by authorities to all…
Riot Police Storm Texas Town After Black, White Protesters Clash Over Dragging Death
July 21st, 2009 |
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PARIS, Texas — State police in full riot gear rushed a downtown street in this eastern Texas town Tuesday to break up a tense standoff between hundreds of black and white protesters who exchanged screams of “Black power!” and “White powe…
Baucus Leading Recipient Of Health Care Industry Cash
July 21st, 2009 |
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As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation under consideration by his Senate Finance Committee.
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Will sermon challenge Iran’s leader?
July 17th, 2009 |
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A top cleric in Iran has called for protesters to be released. How big a challenge is this to Iran’s supreme leader?