TEHRAN, December 7 - Iranian riot police have surrounded Tehran University to prevent the opposition from hijacking a state-organised rally on Monday to stage new demonstrations against the government, witnesses said.There are hundreds of riot polic
LONDON - Eleven men were arrested and a policewoman was taken to hospital Saturday after violence broke out at a far-right group's demonstration against Islamic extremism in central England, police said. The 29-year-old policewoman hurt her arm whi
Around 20,000 people marched in London on Saturday to protest against climate change ahead of a two week-long U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen starting on Monday. A Greenpeace demonstration in Paris drew 1,500 people. We want the most ambitiou
MANILA - Hundreds of Philippine journalists and human rights activists staged a protest near the presidential palace on Monday, demanding justice for 30 colleagues who were among 57 people massacred last week in the troubled south. We call for jus
GENEVA - Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest of a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded black bloc activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen
BHOPAL, INDIA Twenty-five years after poisonous plumes of chemicals leaked from the Union Carbide factory here, survivors are protesting a government plan to open the site to the public.Officials said this week that visitors would be allowed to tou
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said. Police began the arr
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