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Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest.
Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before...
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Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest Friday.
Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
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Latvian members of parliament embarked on a lengthy debate Thursday over government proposals to slash the national budget in order to win approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic assistance package thought to be worth up to 6 billion dollars.
Parliamentarians were greeted by protestors as they arrived at...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue.
Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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More than 50 activists blocked the runway of London's Stansted Airport Monday morning to protest against the creation greenhouse gases by planes.
Plane Stupid, a climate action group, said on its website that about 50 if its members shut down the airport by camping on the runway and surrounding themselves with security...
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London's Stansted airport reopened to traffic Monday after being shut down for several hours by environmental protestors, an airport spokesman said.
The early morning action by some 50 protestors from the group Plane Stupid had closed the airport's single runway, paralyzing all traffic.
A total of 21 flights were cancelled, as...
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A protest by environmental protestors Monday closed down London's Stansted airport, causing severe delays for passengers due to arrive and depart from the city's third-biggest airport used mainly by budget airlines on European routes.
More than 50 supporters of Plane Stupid, a climate action group, blocked the single runway at...
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Italian university students and lecturers staged demonstrations Friday in several cities around the country against government plans to streamline Italy's tertiary education sector.
The protests which have the support of two of the four main labour union confederations, and most of Italy's centre-left opposition, included a march...
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Fierce protests accompanied the arrival of a shipment of radioactive waste at a northern German long term storage site early Tuesday, one day behind schedule as thousands of anti-nuclear activists tried to hold up the transport.
After more than 80 hours by train and truck, 11 containers with spent nuclear fuel from German nuclear...
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Not a single member of the opposition won a seat in Belarus' parliamentary elections, which was slammed on Monday by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as "undemocratic."
Among the problems noted by OSCE preliminary findings as "bad" or "very-bad" was Belarusian ballot counting...
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No opposition member won a seat in Belarus parliamentary elections, the country's election commission said Monday, as protestors slammed the outcome as a "farce."
Commission head Lidia Yermoshina said the opposition still scared off voters, the official Belapan news agency said.
"The fear of mass demonstrations and...
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Voting was underway Friday in parliamentary elections in Swaziland that have been branded farcical by political parties that are barred from contesting polls in Africa's last absolute monarchy.
Voters queued outside polling stations from early morning in the landlocked kingdom of around 1 million people to cast their ballot for 55...
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Seven years after the violence-plagued Group
of Eight summit in this Italian city, a criminal court late Monday
slapped jail sentences for brutality on 15 police and prison officials
blamed for excessive violence against protestors. After
nearly two years of testimony and argument and more than nine hours of
deliberation, the...
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 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili secured re-election Wednesday
according to official vote counts vehemently rejected by the
opposition, which vows to continue its ongoing protest.
With barely two per cent of the vote left to tally, the election
commission website showed Wednesday that Saakashvili led decisively
with 52.21...
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 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Tuesday more soldiers would be
deployed in the Naples area to remove uncollected refuse which has
paralyzed the southern city for almost two weeks.
Prodi made the announcement at a news conference in Rome in which
he unveiled the government's plan to deal with the rubbish problem
which...
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 Just one week before Russia elects a new lower house, or Duma,
opposition politician and former chess world champion Garry Kasparov
and dozens of others have been arrested during a rally in Moscow, Echo
Moskvy radio reported on Saturday.
After the protest against President Vladimir Putin and his
government in Moscow, which was...
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 In a surprise development after declaring a state of emergency,
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Thursday announced a snap
presidential election for January 5 in response to mounting
anti-government protests.
"I am giving the opposition a chance to be elected by the people,"
the 39-year-old leader said in a...
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 As the June summit approaches, ministers of the world’s most industrialized countries met Wednesday for preliminary talks at the famous Cecilienhof palace in Potsdam.An ardent problem was again the independence of the Serbian province Kosovo, a status vehemently opposed by Russia and mother-land Serbia.“The fate of Serbia, the fate of...
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 The anti-globalization demonstrators took the streets of Karlsruhe to protest against the harsh treatment applied by the police and the abusive arrests.On May 9 hundreds of globalization opponents demonstrated in Berlin, Hamburg and other major cities in Germany, demonstrations which eventually turned into riots. The violence was...
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 Ukraine’s capital was again the stage for protests against the sluggish negotiations between the opposition and the government.President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich tried Wednesday to reach a compromise solution for the parliamentary elections, but again failed. The main problem appears to be the correctitude...
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Top seed Elena Dementieva accomplished what around 20 protestors could not as she sent Israeli Shahar Peer out in the quarter-finals of the ASB Classic on Thursday.
Peer, who underwent Israeli military training which took time away from her tennis in recent season, had been the target of protests against her country's current...
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Nepal's Maoist-led government Wednesday backed down on the controversial appointment of priests in the country's biggest temple in the face of growing protests.
Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced in the constituent assembly that the government had revoked the appointments of two priests at Pashupatinath temple that...
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Hundreds of protestors burnt tyres and blocked streets in Kathmandu Tuesday as protests escalated over the Maoist-led government's appointment of top clergy at the country's largest Hindu temple.
The protests followed demonstrations by junior priests at the Pashupatinath temple objecting to the appointment of new high priests by...
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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra can now lay his hands on just 500 million dollars - about a tenth of his estimated previous wealth, the Nation newspaper said Friday.
The founder of Thailand's biggest telecoms conglomerate was thought to be worth around 5 billion dollars before he was ousted in a...
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Thais must be resilient going into what could be a very rough 2009, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Friday.
Workers should not engage in disruptive protests against their employers which "unwittingly exacerbate economic woes by undermining business confidence," he said after a meeting with Democrat Party chief...
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Police in China's Tibet region have arrested 59 people suspected of "spreading rumours" in the nine months since Tibetans staged violent protests against Chinese rule in the regional capital of Lhasa, state media said on Friday.
After the protests and rioting in Lhasa in March, "some people started making up stories...
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A voter turnout of over 50 per cent, scattered protests and a huge presence of security forces marked the seventh and final phase of state assembly elections in India's Jammu and Kashmir state on Wednesday.
At least 22 people, including a photojournalist, were injured as small groups of anti-election protestors clashed with police...
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Thousands of Ukrainian union workers protested wage freezes and job cuts in a host of industries hit by the world financial crisis.
More than 5,000 marchers, many Communist Party members or retirees, gathered in Kiev's central Maidan Nezaledzhnosti square. Police presence was minimal and the crowd was peaceful in Ukraine's first...
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Thailand's exports dropped 18.6 per cent in November - the first negative number for five years.
Thailand is heavily reliant on exports so the poor performance underlines the threat that the economy may show little or negative growth next year, according to analysts.
The prevailing growth forecast for 2009 is already barely above...
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Newly named Thai Prime Minister Abhist Vejjajiva on Wednesday moved fast to restore confidence in troubled Thailand, promising to prevent future airport closures only minutes after being endorsed as premier.
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 81, on Wednesday evening endorsed the election of former opposition leader Abhisit as the...
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An estimated 3 million foreign tourists are expected to go "missing" from Thailand this high season - December to March - as a result of the recent closure of Bangkok's two airports by protestors, the tourism council predicted Wednesday.
From November 25 to December 3, the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy...
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More than 1,000 people confronted at least 300 Chinese riot police on Friday after they were angered by alleged vote-buying in a village election, a rights group reported.
About 50 villagers were injured and police detained some 200 protestors after the riot on Friday morning in Pingyao county in the northern province of Shanxi,...
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The Democrat party secured the backing of four smaller parties Tuesday to form Thailand's next coalition government, but it remained unclear whether it was sufficient to guarantee their lead.
"We reaffirm that our four parties support the Democrats," said Sanan Kacharnprasart, the acting head of the Chart Thai party which...
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Thailand's smaller parties and one breakaway faction from the former coalition's lead party on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for the Democrats to head the next government.
"We reaffirm that our four parties support the Democrats," said Sanan Kacharnprasart, the acting head of the Chart Thai party which together with the...
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The Democrat party on Monday asked for an extraordinary session of Parliament this week to vote on the nomination of a new prime minister, expected to be their leader Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Democrat secretary-general Suthep Thaungsuban submitted the request to House Speaker Chai Chidchob, who will need a royal endorsement from Thai...
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A Hanoi court Monday convicted eight parishioners of a Catholic church of damaging property and causing public disorder.
The eight parishioners, ranging in age from 21 to 63 years, took part in vigils over the past year at Hanoi's Thai Ha church, which is involved in a property dispute with the government.
Protestors erected...
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Vietnam's tourism ministry is still advising travel companies not to send customers to Thailand, an official said Thursday.
"Our ministry has advised provincial tourist departments and travel companies not to send Vietnamese citizens to Thailand until the Thai political situation returns to normal," said Vu The Binh of...
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The week-long closure of Bangkok's two airports has left the capital's hotels empty, travel agents without travellers and the entire industry waiting for a quick fix to Thailand's political mess that is not likely to materialize.
"This week Bangkok hotels are operating at single-digit occupancy and when all the existing tourists...
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Thailand's domestic airlines resumed flights to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport Wednesday after anti-government protestors vacated the premises, ending a siege that has cut the capital off from commercial air traffic for a week.
Suvarnabhumi received its first arrival, a Thai Airways International (THAI) domestic...
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Thousands of demonstrators loyal to anti-US Shiite cleric Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr staged protests on Friday against the controversial US-Iraq security pact, a day after a heated debate on the agreement in the Iraqi parliament.
Holding flags and chanting slogans, protestors flooded Firdous Square in central Baghdad amid tight security,...
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Up to 2,000 residents rallied against rumoured plans to relocate a north-western Chinese city devastated by the Sichuan earthquake, with some protestors smashing windows and attacking government cars, reports said on Tuesday.
The crowd had grown since early Monday in response to rumours that the local branch of China's ruling...
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Businesses and schools shut down Monday in India's north-eastern state of Assam as part of a strike called to protest serial bombings there last week, which left 81 people dead and more than 300 injured, news reports said.
The 11-hour dawn-to-dusk strike was called by the influential All Assam Students' Union, which has accused the...
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Syria has frozen its ties with Iraq following a cross-border attack by US forces on a Syrian village, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news network reported Friday.
It said the Iraqi charge d'affaires had been summoned to the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus and told that economic cooperation was being frozen, as was cooperation between...
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Thailand's anti-government movement resolved Wednesday to remain at Government House, which they have occupied since August 26, despite threats that thousands of former policemen would cut food and water supplies to the compound.
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) decided to dig in at at the seat of government, but would no...
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Police in India's western city of Mumbai Tuesday arrested the leader of a right-wing party on charges of rioting and disrupting government work, a move that led large parts of the city to shut down as his supporters went on a rampage and damaged public transport, officials and news reports said.
Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra...
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A senior China official was heckled by pro-independence activists Monday during an academic seminar in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan, forcing him to cancel all public activities organized by his local host.
"Get out, get out of Taiwan," shouted dozens of activists, who rallied outside Tainan University of Art to...
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Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat on Friday rebuffed intense pressure to resign following a violent police crackdown against anti-government protestors.
Somchai, elevated last month, rejected a strong suggestion on Thursday by army commander Anupong Paojinda that he step down.
"This government was produced by the...
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Made-in-China explosive tear-gas canisters were blamed Friday for death and mayhem at an anti-government protest last week in Bangkok.
A group of policemen and their friends submitted a letter to China's ambassador to Thailand, demanding an investigation of the components of tear-gas containers used to disperse protests on October...
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Thailand's army chief sharply undercut his prime minister Thursday in saying on national television that - if he were premier - he would resign to take responsibility for the deaths of protestors.
General Anupong Paochinda denied intending to pressure Somchai Wongsawat to step down, saying that society, through popular protests, was...
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Thailand's Office of the Attorney General on Friday requested the Constitution Court accept a case seeking to dissolve the People Power Party (PPP), the lead party in the coalition government.
The case, if accepted, was expected to lead to the disbandment of the PPP because the same court already convicted former PPP deputy leader...
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"Thailand is a resilient society," Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat assured the Bangkok diplomatic corps Wednesday, in the wake of a bloodbath that claimed two lives and injured 437 and forced the premier to make a helicopter getaway.
"We will resolve domestic problems through the democratic process," Somchai...
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While most Asian bourses rebounded Tuesday, Thailand's market dropped more than 4 per cent on concerns over ongoing political chaos in the streets.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended at 528.71, down 23.09 points or 4.18 per cent.
"Everywhere else bourses were rebounding except here, because of the political...
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An anti-government protest turned bloody Tuesday, claiming at least one dead and about a hundred injured as police confronted followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to help legislators first get in and then get out of Parliament.
Riot police early Tuesday scattered thousands of PAD followers who had laid siege...
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An anti-government protest turned bloody Tuesday, claiming at least one dead and about a hundred injured as police confronted followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to help legislators first get in and then get out of Parliament.
Riot police early Tuesday scattered thousands of PAD followers who had laid siege...
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Thai Deputy Prime Minister General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh resigned his post Tuesday to take "responsibility" for a confrontation between anti-government protestors and police.
Chavalit submitted his resignation to Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat Tuesday shortly after police fired tear gas on thousands of protestors...
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As Catholic protests continued Monday over the government's clearance of a plot of land claimed by Hanoi's Archdiocese, non-Catholics' sympathy for the protestors was damaged by a statement by Hanoi Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet that was quoted out of context in the state-controlled press.
Several organs of Vietnam's...
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More than 5,000 Iraqis protested in Karbala on Monday against the removal of the Shiite holy city's police chief.
The protestors called the government to take back its decision to transfer General Read Shaker from the restive Karbala, to which he is credited with having brought security, to the city of Baquba.
The protestors, who...
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Large parts of Kathmandu city centre shut down Sunday following clashes between police and protestors demonstrating a government decision not to finance traditional animal sacrifice.
Thousands of protestors, mostly from the Newar community - considered the original inhabitants of Kathmandu Valley - forced shops, educational...
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Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on Tuesday secured the full backing of the People Power Party to become the country's next premier after a party rift failed to scuttle his nomination.
"The People Power Party has reached a consensus to nominate Somchai as the next prime...
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Malaysia's opposition alliance on Monday held a massive rally protesting the detention of an opposition lawmaker and a popular blogger under a security law which allows for indefinite detention without trial.
Police on Friday detained opposition politician Teresa Kok and anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under the Internal...
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Thailand's largest political party on Monday nominated Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of coup-ousted Thaksin Shinawatra, as its candidate to be the kingdom's next prime minister, but the choice has split the party.
Somchai, who has been acting prime minister since September 9 when former premier Samak Sundaravej lost his post,...
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At least five suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir where people participated in protests called by separatist leaders on Friday, officials said.
The Indian army said three militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in a gunbattle in the southern district of...
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Thailand's Constitution Court on Tuesday found the country's embattled, cooking-crazed Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej guilty of violating the charter for hosting a culinary TV show after he had assumed office in February, forcing him out of his job.
Although the court's guilty verdict immediately deprived Samak of the premiership,...
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Despite Thailand's ongoing political crisis, its stock market jumped 3.07 per cent Monday, boosted by the US government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and growing optimism about the world economy.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended at 665.66, up 19.86 points.
"Our market was just following the...
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India and China began high-level talks Monday amid a new strain in bilateral relations over Beijing's perceived negative role that threatened Indian efforts for civilian nuclear trade with the world.
Indian officials criticized China for objecting to a trade waiver for India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on the weekend.
The...
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Police arrested three Kashmiri separatist leaders in India-administered Kashmir as protestors defied a curfew in the region and clashed with security forces Monday, leaving 22 people injured, officials said.
Two senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were...
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Beijing police have ordered 10 pro-Tibet activists - all foreigners - to 10 days in detention in the harshest treatment so far of Tibet activists since a series of demonstrations were carried out in the capital during the Olympics.
The police faxed a statement Friday saying six foreigners arrested Tuesday for "disturbing public...
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Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday.
At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...
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Beijing authorities have received 77 applications for demonstrations since August 1, a spokesperson with the municipal public security bureau was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying on Monday.
But none of the applications materialized into protests, according to the report.
Under pressure to hold an Olympics of international...
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Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched past a United Nations' observers office in India's Jammu and Kashmir state capital on Monday demanding international intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Slogans against the Indian government and security forces and shouts of "azadi" - freedom - were heard as the the marchers...
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Kenyan police Friday arrested 23 journalists and protestors demonstrating against a new media bill that many fear will curtail press freedom.
Police say they arrested the demonstrators, who were heading to the Nyayo national stadium where President Mwai Kibaki was speaking during a national holiday, because they did not announce the...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat a group of unarmed protestors Wednesday and detained a number of union leaders in the latest in a series of protests over crippling cash withdrawal limits that have rattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.
The police used batons to beat back a group of around 50 protestors that attempted to...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat a group of unarmed protestors Wednesday and detained a number of union leaders in the latest in a series of protests over crippling cash withdrawal limits that have rattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.
The police used batons to beat back a group of around 50 protestors that attempted to...
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Zimbabwean riot police beat striking doctors and nurses at a Harare hospital on Tuesday and sent them running for cover in wards, witnesses said, as reports emerged of dozens more dead in a fast-spreading cholera outbreak.
The protest took place at Parirenyatwa general hospital where around 200 doctors and nurses, from that hospital...
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 Men, women and children bearing machetes and clubs chanted opposition
slogans in the slums of the Kenyan capital Nairobi Thursday as a second
day of protests over disputed presidential election polls got violently
underway.
Protestors in Mathare shantytown, unable to break a police barrier
to reach the downtown rally called by the...
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 Chaos descended on parts of Kenya Wednesday as the first of three days
of rallies saw opposition backers clash with police who fired tear gas
and live rounds into crowds to thwart the demonstrations over disputed
presidential polls.
A sense of normalcy returned to some areas of the capital Nairobi
in the morning, with Kenyans...
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 The United States on Saturday said all sides must recognize "serious flaws" in the vote-counting process of Kenya's disputed election, and urged ruling and opposition leaders to meet immediately and "without preconditions" to break the cycle of violence.
Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African...
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 Kenyan opposition politicians called off what was called a
"million-man" rally Thursday to protest allegedly flawed polls which
have sparked mass rioting and violence that continued as supporters
tried to reach the gathering.
As disgruntled Kenyans fought police and condemned the so-called
flawed poll results that...
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 Protests erupted in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Friday, with
thousands of angry demonstrators calling for the death of a British
teacher who was convicted of blasphemy for allowing her students to
name a teddy bear Mohammed.
The protestors poured out of mosques following Friday prayers, some
carrying knives and clubs, just a day...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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 One day before the 17th International AIDS conference, thousands of people worldwide marched through streets in the capital of Mexico on all for the fight against homophobia and discrimination against people infected with HIV. The mass of protestors taking to the streets was part of the demonstration. With the aim of pointing up their...
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