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Police use water cannon against Hamburg rioters
Hamburg :: Germany | 2 months ago
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Police said a group of rioters broke several windows of a police station, prompting a street battle between what police spokesman Ralf Meyer said was around 200 young people and riot police. The rioters threw stones at the police, set fire to car tyres...
Tags: Hamburg, riots police, Germany
Ahmadinejad sworn in as Iranian president
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 months ago
Credibility AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, waves as he arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for his second term as judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi makes his way in an open session of parliament in Tehran,...
Tags: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad Sworn, iranians president, president mahmoud, Tehran, riots police
Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Northern Ireland (AP) Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police Monday as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end. Irish nationalists in Ardoyne,...
Tags: Northern Ireland, Northern Belfast, Protestant Orange Orders, petrol bombs, police officers, Protestant Orangemen, Ardoyne, north belfast, riots police, catholic hurl
May Day riots in Berlin, Istanbul
Berlin :: Germany | 6 months ago
Credibility Germany and Turkey fought pitched battles with May Day demonstrators today as the traditional labour rallies across the world were dominated by the international economic crisis Young demonstrators hurled bottles and rocks at police in the Friedrichshain...
Tags: Berlin, Hamburg, Germany, riots police, berlin police, economic crisis, Turkey, hurled bottles, Greece, police injured
Shots fired at Greek police bus
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility More than 3,000 protesters chanting "cops, pigs, murderers" have marched through central Athens after an armed opened fire at a riot police bus, in a third week of anti-government protests since police shot dead a teenager. Police said the unidentified...
Tags: police, athens, teenager, Athens University, police bus, riots, Greece, police car, shots fired, riots police
Riot police and protesters clash in Athens
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens today, sending Christmas shoppers and people in cafes running for cover. Frightened parents scooped up their children from a Christmas carousel in the city's main square and fled....
Tags: police, athens, teenager, anarchist, Athens University Law School, riots police, riots, Greek Parliament, tear gas, central athens
Greek protesters rally outside police headquarters
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Greece – Youths protested outside of Athens' main police headquarters today, pelting riot police with flour and other objects to protest the shooting death of a teenager...Some 2,000 youths at the rally blocked one of the capital's main avenues, chanted...
Tags: police, athens, teenager, Athens Police, Athens News Agency, riots, Greek, riots police, police headquarters
Strike grips Greece as riots rage
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Greece yesterday as a general strike paralysed the country, piling pressure on the beleaguered conservative government of Costas Karamanlis. Protesters attacked the main Athens courthouse with firebombs during a hearing for police officers whose shooting...
Tags: Greece, Athens, Costas Karamanlis, general strike, minister costas, prime minister, conservative governed, police clashed, Parliament, riots police
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
Anti-police riots rage in Greece
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Costas Karamanlis, the Greek prime minister, expressed his sympathy in a letter to the parents of Grigoropoulos. "In these difficult moments please accept my condolences for the unfair loss of your son," he wrote. "Like all Greeks I am deeply saddened.
Tags: Greece, Athens, Greek, Thessaloniki, riots police, tear gas, police shoot, fatal shoot, old boy, worst riots
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