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Koran-burning Florida pastor vows to return to protest after ban
DETROIT (Reuters) – The controversial Florida pastor banned from protesting near a Detroit-area mosque says he plans to return next week for a protest aimed at the court that found him to be a risk to public safety. Terry Jones, 59, said he would return to Dearborn, Michigan on Thursday and lead a…
Thousands join competing Moscow rallies
MOSCOW — Thousands protested Russia’s ruling regime in central Moscow on Saturday calling for transparent elections as the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement staged a massive anti-corruption demonstration. Up to 3,000 people protested on Moscow’s Bolotnaya square near the Kremlin in a protest organised by the unregistered oppositional Party for People’s Freedom,…
Egypt military to reconsider protester sentences
CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers, who have drawn fire from youth groups for a crackdown on protests, said on Thursday they were reviewing the cases of protesters recently sentenced in military trials. The transitional military government, which took over after protests forced president Hosni Mubarak from office in February, said…
Mourners flood Syrian protest town: activists
DAMASCUS — Tens of thousands of Syrians gathered on Sunday in Douma near Damascus to bury eight people killed during pro-reform protests, as a Facebook group drummed up week-long rallies in their honour. The funerals came as President Bashar al-Assad asked former agriculture minister Adel Safar to form a new…
‘Ten UN workers killed’ at Afghan Koran protest
Update: As many as 20 U.N. workers killed Up to 20 U.N. workers were killed Friday when protesters overran a compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, according to Reuters. Two foreigners were said to be beheaded. Original report continues below… KABUL — Ten foreign UN workers were killed on Friday in an attack…
Sudan’s cyber-defenders take on Facebook protesters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Medical student Ahmed Widaa was content to support Sudan’s ruling party from the sidelines for years, until the uprisings in Tunisia and neighboring Egypt made him worry that Sudan could be next. With revolutionary zeal, the 21-year-old now lobbies online to defend the status quo — one of many pro-government youth taking to the…
Wave of unrest shakes Syria, crowds torch party HQ
DAMASCUS – Crowds set fire to the headquarters of the ruling Baath Party in the Syrian city of Deraa Sunday, residents said, as the wave of unrest in the Arab world shook even one of its most authoritarian states. The demonstrators also set ablaze the main courts complex and two…
Muslims, supporters in New York protest Congressional hearing
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Muslims, activists and supporters demonstrated in Times Square on Sunday to protest a Congressional hearing on radicalization of U.S. Muslims. Holding placards that read “Today I am a Muslim, too,” a few hundred gathered at the interfaith protest, decrying what they said was the bigotry and ignorance behind anti-Muslim…
Afghans protest civilian deaths at American hands
KABUL (Reuters) – Hundreds of people chanting “Death to America” protested in Kabul on Sunday against a spate of civilian casualties caused by international forces, a sign of the simmering anti-Western emotion among many ordinary Afghans. The demonstrators marched through the center of the capital, some carrying banners bearing pictures…
Huge protest in Yemen as Saleh blames US, Israel
SANAA – Huge crowds poured onto the streets of the Yemeni capital on Tuesday in what the opposition hailed as the biggest protest yet against President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s three-decade rule. Saleh, whose supporters staged a large counter-demonstration, dismissed the rally as a copycat action mimicking protests in other Arab…
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