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Anti-austerity protesters urge Spain government to resign in Madrid rally
Thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators marched in the Spanish capital Saturday calling for the conservative government to resign because of its severe budget cuts. “They don’t represent us”, “More education fewer police”, demonstrators shouted as dozens of police vehicles followed the march to near the parliament building which was cordoned off.…
Protesters storm Libyan private TV station
Demonstrators stormed the offices of a private Libyan television station in Benghazi Sunday, protesting coverage of the clashes in Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. The demonstrators broke into the offices of Libya Al-Hurra station, wrecking the site and setting fire to an office, an…
Muslims protest outside U.S. embassy in London
LONDON — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the United States embassy in London on Sunday to protest an anti-Islam film that has caused outrage throughout the Muslim world. Around 300 men and women joined in the protest, waving placards and chanting slogans outside the embassy building in central London, an…
Egyptian protesters tore down U.S. embassy flag
Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators angered by a film deemed offensive to Islam tore down the US flag during a protest at the embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported. Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement or football fans, gathered at the…
Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests
Anaheim police arrested nine demonstrators, at one point using horses against protesters during a march, during the ninth day of protests over police shootings Sunday. The Orange County Register reported that more than 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, which forced some street closures as they marched toward Disneyland…
Libyan oil terminals shut down by demonstrators
Two oil terminals in east Libya were forced to halt production Thursday by federalism backers, an AFP journalist at the scene and local sources said. “The harbour is closed… The pumping and loading of oil has been stopped… The group that came were federalists,” said Tumi Shakari, a supervisor at a major oil terminal in the port…
Fired Bahrain protesters demand jobs back on May Day
DUBAI — Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Shiite villages in Bahrain on Tuesday to demand being reinstated in jobs from which they were fired during last year’s uprising, witnesses said. “Returning to our jobs is a right,” read the banners of the protesters who gathered for the…
Protesters ‘occupy’ lawmakers’ Washington offices
WASHINGTON — Around 1,000 demonstrators assembled at US lawmakers’ offices on Thursday as part of a “Take Back the Capitol,” action targeting corporate America’s influence in Washington’s corridors of power. Protesters — many of them labor-union activists who support the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York in…
WATCH LIVE: Occupy Oakland prepares for general strike
Protesters in Oakland on Wednesday were planning a range of activities aimed at shutting down the nation’s fifth-largest port. Actions were expected to kick off at 9 a.m. PT at a rally downtown. At around 7 p.m. PT, demonstrators were expected to march to the Port of Oakland. Watch this…
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