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Rafsanjani calls on Iran to release protesters
Tehrān :: Iran | 4 months ago
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The political crisis over Iran's disputed election has flared up once again as the powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered a sermon criticising the repression of protesters claiming the poll was rigged. Police fired tear gas as tens of thousands...
Tags: Iranian, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Tehran University, presidential elections, tear gas, fired tear, Mirhossein Mousavi, power cleric, Mousaviâ
Hundreds of Malaysians stage language protest
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 8 months ago
Credibility Hundreds of Malaysians, mostly Muslim Malays, had taken to the streets to protest against the use of English to teach Mathematics and Science in schools. Police fired water canons and tear gas to disperse the crowd as they marched to the National Palace...
Tags: Malaysian, police fired, tear gas, riot police, fired tear, prime minister, fired teargas, ethnic malays, national palace, Barisan Nasional
Strikes cripple Greece, shaken by riots
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Outrage over the death was widespread, fueled by what experts say is a growing frustration with unemployment and corruption in one of the European Union's consistently underperforming economies, worsened by global recession. But it was expressed in violence...
Tags: riots police, Greece, Athens, general strike, Parliament, central athens, police shoot, tear gas, nationwide general, fired tear
Thai police tear-gas anti-government protesters
Bangkok :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
Credibility As light broke this morning, the police moved in to break up a demonstration by several thousand people who are part of the anti-government group, the People's Alliance for Democracy. Thai television is showing pictures of hundreds of riot police in the...
Tags: protest, tear gas, police fired, fired tear, government protesters, Thailand, Somchai Wongsawat, Parliament, Philamlife, prime minister
E Timor police move on students
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility The students were demonstrating against plans by the parliament to spend $1m (�500,000) on new cars for MPs. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that local police had fired rounds of tear gas at lines of peacefully protesting students inside the grounds of the...
Tags: protest, timor, east timor, East Timorese, law, tear gas, National University of Timor-Leste, police fired, fired tear
Labour MPs gather to brainstorm
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Labour caucus strategy meeting is being held at Premier House. Prime Minister Helen Clark today predicted National's lead in the polls would start to slip when the election campaign started and said she had no thoughts about handing the leadership...
Tags: fired tear, The Labour, police fired, tear gas, Helen Clark, National
World Briefing | Americas: Peru: Protesters Overcome Police
Moquegua :: Peru | about 1 year ago
Credibility Protesters Overcome Police Published: June 17, 2008 Thousands of protesters overwhelmed Peruvian riot police officers, forcing them to halt efforts to clear a weeklong blockade in a mining region that has left cities short of food and fuel.
Tags: Peru, Moquegua, riot police, mining companies, police fired, Lima, peru mining, tear gas, fired tear, mining regions
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