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An anti-government protester in Sama, Yemen, used a blindfold and gag to make his point against what demonstrators have said is the torture of protesters by the police.
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An anti-government protester in Sama, Yemen, used a blindfold and gag to make his point against what demonstrators have said is the torture of protesters by the police.
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Anti-government protesters shouted slogans while standing in front of laser beams pointed by riot police in the village of Diraz, Bahrain, Thursday. Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets demanding the downfall of the regime.
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Opposition supporters in Uganda tried to flee coloured water sprayed by riot police officers to disperse them in Kireka, on the outskirts of the capital Kampala. The police fired tier gas and water cannons as a crowd mourned others killed during demonstrations this year, witnesses said.
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Antigovernment protesters demanded the ousting of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in San’a, Yemen, Wednesday. Tens of thousands gathered in major cities to protest against Mr. Saleh, who has spent more than 30 years in power.
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A wounded man spoke to policemen at a protest Monday in Algiers, where security forces clashed with students demanding political change. Demonstrations are currently banned in Algeria, but youths have protested anyway in recent months.
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Chernobyl, 25 years on: People hold a rally to protest against a Ukrainian initiative to cut social benefits for “liquidators”, emergency workers who fought the blaze at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, near the government’s headquarters in Kiev on March 16.
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Turkish riot police arrested a protester at the entrance of the Bosphorus Bridge Friday in Istanbul. A group of Kurdish protesters tried to block the traffic across the Bosphorous to protest the Turkish government’s policy on Kurds.
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Students circled a police van after it was damaged by demonstrators during a protest in central London Wednesday against government plans to raise university tuition fees.
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The police tried to disperse protesters with water as they demonstrated outside the office of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or R.S.S., in New Delhi. The protest was against a former R.S.S. chief, K. Sudarshan, who recently accused the Congress Party president in India, Sonia Gandhi, of being an American C.I.A. agent.
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The police in London said eight people, among them protesters and police officers, were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
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One protester broke a window at Millbank Tower during the London demonstrations as placards burned nearby.
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Police officers confronted student protesters as they tried to enter Millbank Tower in London, which houses the headquarters of the British Conservative Party. Thousands of students marched in London to protest tuition increases that are being proposed under government austerity measures.
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A sign opposing the Islamic center near ground zero is left behind after a rally in New York, Aug. 22, 2010.
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A policeman stands near a mannequin dressed in an Arab-style head scarf and perched atop a model of a missile, a display built by opponents of an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned near Ground Zero on August 22, 2010 in New York City.
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A policeman holds bricks to throw at protesters in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. On Tuesday, shops, businesses and government offices were shut in Indian Kashmir as thousands of troops in riot gear patrolled the main city warning people to stay indoors and not participate in pro-independence protests, said a Srinagar resident.
