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Red Cross handing out aid in Homs
Syrian regime Salafists protesters, beat a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad with shoes during a protest in Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday. — AP BEIRUT — Red Cross teams began handing out food and blankets in central Homs (...)

05 - 03 - 2012
Syrians face crackdown with humor
Syrian regime protesters hold a caricature placard, which shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aiding his Syrian ally President Bashar Al-Assad, during a demonstration, at Kfarnebel in Edleb, Syria, on January 27. — AP BEIRUT — Throughout (...)

02 - 02 - 2012
Egypt's military mulls speedy transition
Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) slogans during a protest at Tahrir square in Cairo, Monday. Hundreds of Egyptians protested in Tahrir Square Monday demanding that SCAF step down from power. — AP CAIRO — A spokesman for an advisory (...)

31 - 01 - 2012
TI cuts ties with FIFA
corruption watchdog Transparency International says its working relationship with FIFA has ended because past allegations of wrongdoing in world football won't be investigated. Sylvia Schenk, sports adviser to Transparency International, says she (...)

02 - 12 - 2011
Pirates hijack ship off Oman
piracy force says pirates have hijacked a ship off East Africa only 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Oman's coast. The EU Naval Force said that at least 10 pirates boarded the MV Susan when it was attacked Friday. The German-owned vessel was (...)

09 - 04 - 2011
Protesters held at US anti-war rally
war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War, have been arrested outside the White House. Saturday's arrests are part of demonstrations in Washington and throughout the country to mark the eighth anniversary of (...)

20 - 03 - 2011
Shoe, eggs hurled at Blair in Dublin
war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair on Saturday as he held the first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. Scores of demonstrators chanted that Blair had “blood on his hands” as the former British prime minister arrived at a (...)

05 - 09 - 2010
Anti-war rally planned at Blair booksigning
war activists say they plan to hold a protest when Tony Blair arrives to sign copies of his autobiography, “A Journey,” in central London next month. Stop The War Coalition says they will picket the event and warn that activists will try to arrest (...)

13 - 08 - 2010
Reds storm into TV compound
government protesters stormed Friday into a telecom company compound where authorities had shut down their vital TV channel, as soldiers and riot police failed to hold them back with tear gas and water cannons. It was the first use of force by the (...)

10 - 04 - 2010
Iraq ‘referendum'
American radical cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr cast their votes in Baghdad, Friday, in a self-styled referendum on the nation's next prime minister. The voting Friday and Saturday has no legal authority but it is widely seen as a way for the cleric to back (...)

03 - 04 - 2010
Top JI militant believed killed in Indonesia
terrorism forces Tuesday killed a man believed to be one of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali bombings, Dulmatin, during a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta, police said. Gunfire was heard as police raided a two-storey shophouse at around 11:00 (...)

10 - 03 - 2010
EVERYONE LOVES SNOW
clockwise): A Chinese family uses a sleigh to skate through piles of snow on a frozen lake in Beijing, Wednesday. A weekend storm blanketed much of China with snow, sending temperatures plunging, snarling traffic and prompting some cities to close (...)

07 - 01 - 2010
Militants kill 3 anti-Taliban figures
Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan, officials said. Elsewhere, authorities found the (...)

28 - 11 - 2009
FIFA, WADA to create new anti-doping program
Doping Agency will work together on a new anti-doping program to test top-level football players. FIFA president Sepp Blatter and WADA president John Fahey met Thursday at FIFA headquarters to finalize the agreement. The organizations will work with (...)

30 - 10 - 2009
Bangkok boiling
government protesters and supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra set up the roadblock and set ablaze a bus during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand Monday. Thai soldiers sprayed automatic weapons fire and threw tear gas to clear (...)

14 - 04 - 2009
Sadr urges militia to lay down arms
US Shiite cleric, Muqtada Al-Sadr renewed a call to his followers to renounce violence. Muqtada Al-Sadr had ordered most of his Mahdi Army militiamen to lay down their arms to form a new social welfare network, although he retained a small fighting (...)

20 - 03 - 2009
Protest calls for Thai PM's ouster
government protesters marched through the streets of Bangkok on Monday, calling the prime minister a “murderer” and demanding he resign over the violent quashing of a previous rally. The demonstrators have stepped up their protests against Prime (...)

21 - 10 - 2008
Thai protesters refuse to leave PM's office
government protesters hunkered down at the Thai prime minister's office compound Thursday evening, preparing to extend their illegal occupation for a third night with no end in sight. The crowd of several thousand swelled as some protesters (...)

29 - 08 - 2008
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