Masked demonstrators protesting the upcoming G-8 summit meeting hurled stones and flagpoles at police on Saturday, a spokeswoman said, describing a scene of chaos in the harbor of this northern port city.
Traffic threatened to squash his scooter like a dumpling. He survived an armed robbery. Most weeks, he toiled 70 hours so he could send money to his family in China. And for his effort, he said he was paid a salary of $550 per month ΓΆβ;¬" about $1.81 per hour. Live on your tips, his bosses told him.
Thousands of anti-U.S. protesters marched in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the demonstration, which Najaf police said included tens of thousands of protesters.
2,000 demonstrators defy Kremlin to march in Moscow's streets as opposition leader Garry Kasparov is arrested
Conservative bloggers have been cherry-picking news about the protests to describe the turnout as "underwhelming" and "weak" while using this photo as proof that the demonstrations fell far short of their 3,000,000 person goal. A picture of the same location four years ago puts it into perspective.
The FBI used a secret intelligence unit to detain war protesters in Washington and interrogate them about their political and religious views, according to police logs that have recently surfaced in a civil lawsuit filed by 20 demonstrators who were arrested by D.C. police in 2002 during rallies on the mall.
With the war in Iraq poised to enter its fifth year, tens of thousands of demonstrators Saturday flooded the streets of Washington, Hungary, Spain, Australia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, South Korea, Chile, Sweden, Iraq and elsewhere in protest. The protests were timed to coincide with the fourth anniversary on Tuesday of the Iraq war, which has
A South Korean activist scaled a wall of the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday and staged a brief protest of Tokyo's refusal to acknowledge it forced Korean and Chinese women to work as sex slaves during World War II.
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US President George W. Bush has denied US policy has turned its back on Latin America, after demonstrations and violent protests rocked the start of his goodwill tour. "The characterisation that our back has been turned is not borne out by the facts," Mr Bush said after talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the fi
Security forces in East Timor are bracing for more trouble after violent protests flared yesterday after Australian troops moved against self-styled rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado, killing four of his men.
Protesters plan to deliver a firm anti-Iraq war message to Vice President Dick Cheney in Australia on Thursday as one of his firmest allies faces searching questions over its commitment to the unpopular war.
The US ambassador to Italy, Ronald Spogli, insisted that the rapport between the countries remained "perfect, excellent", despite being heckled himself by a mob on a recent visit to Vicenza.
As thousands of demonstrators protested against the Iraq war outside the Capitol yesterday, top Congressional Republicans have warned President George Bush that his controversial troop increase has a few months at the very most to show results. The threat that his own party will turn against him is the clearest sign yet of the intensifying pres
While staging a peaceful protest against the military's discriminatory recruiting practices, 11 young queer activists were arrested in separate incidents in Philadelphia and Minneapolis.
Timothy Truett sat in a folding chair Saturday on the cul-de-sac outside Saqib Ali's home in Gaithersburg with a sign reading ``Islam sucks,'' and a shirt with the slogan, ``This mind is an Allah-free zone.''
The funeral for Montana Senator Max Bacus' son, who was slain in Iraq, was protested by the Westboro Baptist Church, whose members picket military funerals around the country.








