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Petrol bombs thrown at Bahrain police station
DUBAI — A large crowd attacked a police station outside the Bahraini capital with petrol bombs, police said late Saturday, as sporadic protests intensify in the Sunni-ruled Shiite-majority Gulf state. “Some 150 people attacked with Molotov cocktails” in the Shiite village of Sitra, provincial police said in a statement carried…
Post-riot London looks ‘like the Blitz’, 42 arrested
Police in London arrested dozens of people on Sunday after 26 officers were injured in the city’s worst riots in years. Rioters in Tottenham, north London, torched vehicles and buildings and looted shops in response to the fatal shooting of a local man by police. Scotland Yard said 42 people…
Rioting hits Libyan city of Benghazi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Hundreds of people clashed with police and government supporters overnight in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a witness and local media said, in a rare show of unrest in the oil exporting country. Protesters angered by the arrest of a human rights activist threw petrol bombs,…
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