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Afghan Officials: 2 Suspects in Custody for UN Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say they have in custody at least two former insurgents suspected of involvement in the killing of seven U.N. workers during a riot last week in the northern city over Quran burning in the United States. Lawmaker Mohammad Akbari said on Wednesday that a government team investigating the April 1 attack against the U.N. headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif has identified three men believed involved in the killing of three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards. A chief investigator with the Interior Ministry, Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, claims two of the ...
Roadblocks, Looting, Riots Hit Sleepy Sultanate of Oman
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe wave of pro-democracy fervor sweeping the Middle East and North Africa has landed in Oman, a tiny Arab sultanate thought to have been one of the region's most stable, prosperous places. Omani protesters demanding better jobs and political reforms clashed with the country's vaunted security forces on Sunday. There were reports of up to six people dead in the northern industrial town of Sohar, even though Oman's health minister said only one died. Oman is a staunch U.S. ally, with strategic importance. It lies next to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical entryway into the Persian Gulf, where ...
Tunisian Leader Flees Amid Protests, PM Takes Over
By not in system - AOL NewsTUNIS, Tunisia - Violent anti-government protests drove Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power Friday after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, as anger over soaring unemployment and corruption spilled into the streets. Thousands of demonstrators from all walks of life mobbed the capital of Tunis to demand Ben Ali's ouster, the culmination of weeks of protests that have swept the country. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi went on state television to announce that he is assuming power in this North African nation known for its sandy beaches and ancient ruins. The shakeup was ...
Riots Erupt After Europe's 'Last Dictator' Claims Re-Election in Belarus
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsGovernment agents in Belarus have hauled off hundreds of demonstrators who took to the streets protesting the disputed election victory of their president, dubbed Europe's " last dictator" for his 16-year iron-fist rule over the former Soviet republic. The country's election commission announced late Sunday that incumbent Alexander Lukashenko had won nearly 80 percent of the vote, handing him a fourth term in the office he's held since 1994. But opposition candidates complained of vote-rigging, and thousands rioted last night in the capital Minsk's central Independence Square. Hundreds of ...
Moscow Police Arrest Hundreds to Prevent Ethnic Rioting
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Moscow police arrested hundreds of youths in an attempt to prevent ethnic rioting. Police arrested more than 1,000 people and sealed off portions of the city's famous Red Square, Agence France-Presse reported. Cops in other cities, including St Petersburg, also made arrests. On Saturday, ethnic violence gripped Moscow after a Russian soccer fan was killed, supposedly by a Muslim. Since then, far-right groups have reportedly been urging a demonstration. "We have confiscated several air guns, knives, clubs and and stun guns," Moscow city police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said ...
Strikes, Violent Protests Cripple Greek Capital
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece (Dec. 15) -- Hundreds of baton-wielding protesters clashed with police here today, hurling firebombs at a soaring building housing the Greek Finance Ministry and marring a massive protest against austerity measures. The clashes morphed out of a protest march that gripped the Greek capital as tens of thousands of workers went on strike, railing against moves to liberalize the country's labor market and slash salaries at public corporations. Hooded protesters -- some wearing ski goggles, others equipped with gas masks -- pelted riot police with stones and petrol bombs before ...
Clashes, Protests Roil France Ahead of Retirement Vote
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PARIS (Oct. 21) -- Police used tear gas and water cannon against rampaging youth in Lyon on Thursday while the French government showed its muscle in parliament, short-circuiting tense Senate debate on a bill raising the retirement age to 62. Despite growing pressure, President Nicolas Sarkozy held firm on a measure he says is crucial to the future of France, heightening the standoff with labor unions that see retirement at 60 as a hard-earned right. Weeks of protests have left at least a quarter of the nation's gas stations on empty, blocked hundreds of ships at the Mediterranean port of ...
LA Protests Are Latest in a History of Street Battles
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (Sept. 8) -- Two nights of violent street demonstrations over the police shooting of a Guatemalan-born day laborer is the legacy of long-simmering distrust between residents in an immigrant neighborhood west of downtown and a police department trying to shake off a dark legacy, experts said today. The clashes in Los Angeles' Westlake neighborhood involved several hundred residents throwing rocks and bottles from the street and rooftops at police in riot gear, who responded by firing nonlethal projectiles and arresting at least 22 people. No deaths were reported, and the number of ...
Russian Drought Spurs Worldwide Food Price Hikes
By Scott Martelle - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- Severe drought in Russia has sent world food prices 5 percent higher in recent months, according to a new report by the United Nations, and though they remain well below the record levels reached during the 2007-08 world food crisis, the higher prices have already fueled deadly riots in Mozambique. Today police in the capital, Maputo, opened fire on a mob of several thousand people -- some of them throwing stones -- in what officials said was an unsanctioned protest over the rise in food and commodity prices. The Associated Press reported that at least seven people were killed, ...
Opinion: The Mehserle Jury Got It Right
By Philip Bump - AOL News(July 9) -- The death of Oscar Grant seems clear cut. Lying face-down on a BART train platform in Oakland, he was shot in the back by a uniformed security officer and killed. Thursday, the trial of the shooter, Johannes Mehserle, concluded. The verdict: guilty -- of involuntary manslaughter. The result: protests in the streets. Involuntary manslaughter isn't murder. Not in a legal sense, not in the heft of the words themselves. "Murder," we understand. If Mehserle were convicted of murder, there's a moral valuation that comes with that. In that case, we are confident that Mehserle killed ...
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