Islamists protested today over the decision to reprieve 7,000 death row inmates and change their sentences to life imprisonment in honour of Benazir Bhutto's birthday.This is one of the biggest amnesties in modern...
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"Evidently, people wearing these feature-blurring, flesh-colored masks (or are they stockings? We can't really tell) have been popping up at various high-profile events around London, from Wimbledon to Elton John's...
A priest in Coquitlam, BC has returned his Order of Canada (in the Canadain post no less) because he says that the appointment of abortion activist Henry Morgentaler 'degrades the order'."Lucien Larre, a Coquitlam...
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" As many as five million Indian lorry drivers went on strike today to protest against a surge in fuel prices, dealing what may prove a fatal blow to the country's beleaguered Government. Congress, the biggest...
Two-hundred truck drivers have threatened to bring London to a standstill in a protest for lower taxes on diesel fuel. Escorted by police cars, the trucks drove to Britain's Parliament, where a debate over fuel taxes...
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After going to the polls on Sunday, Mongolians took to the streets in protest of what they allege were unfair and fraudulent elections. Mongolian police appeared unable to deal with the crowds, which were stated to...
Hundreds of teenagers gathered in London this morning to protest the latest teenage muder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella in North London over the weekend."Police stopped the traffic as Ben’s friends and family, including his sister, the former EastEnders actress Brooke...
As one Madrid neighborhood faces gentrification, the local working girls have banded together to protest the loss of their workplace. Instead of picket signs, though, they tried something different: a fashion...
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Remember those seven protestants upon fuel price policy in Samarinda? They've decided to stop their action on Sunday (29/6) by the recommendation from doctors.. Beside that, the protestants said that they also...
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"ENVIRONMENT: Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company By Stephen Leahy* The old city centre of Cerro de San Pedro. Credit:Ángel Caído TORONTO, Jun 28 (Tierramérica) - Residents and activists from the central...
Green activists in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki clashed with riot police during their attempt to hold a naked bike ride in order to protest excessive car use. Senior police officials, however, had...
After 5 days in protest, 3 men of "Sealed Lips for Protest" got dehydration.. 1 of them (Ronny) was sent to Emergency Unit in hospital, while the other 2 (Ahmad Syafii, Heri Setiawan) just stay in the tent with...
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Haunted by the fear of displacement over the development in their habitat,Tribals in the India's forest have been protesting. This one is against the settin up of a steel plant by India's biggest steel manufacture...
After much dithering South Korean government has finally allowed import on US Beef. The beef row has posed a political crisis for the incumbent government."South Korea has formally lifted an import ban on US...
In the face of an impending no-confidence vote, weeks of anti-government street protests, and widespread accusations of corruption, Thailand's prime minister Samak Sundaravej has defiantly refused to resign....