Protest

Topless women in Italy protest ex-PM Berlusconi vote

25 Feb 2013

The protesters, from the Ukrainian women's rights group Femen, shouted " Basta [Enough] Berlusconi", as the media tycoon was voting in a polling station in a Milan school.

Israel demands end to protests in West Bank

25 Feb 2013

A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave no indication the Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, would issue any call for calm, and blamed Israel...

Bo Xilai has been on hunger strike in protest over arrest

22 Feb 2013

Almost a year after Bo's fall from grace under a cloud of lurid accusations about corruption, abuse of power and murder, the government has given no definitive time frame for when the former party...

Drum beat of discontent in Singapore draws near

18 Feb 2013

Singapore's biggest protest in decades shows that the ruling party for over half a century is facing a more vocal electorate and must change or watch its popularity slide further, analysts say.

Thousands of Chongqing residents protest police handling of traffic dispute

14 Feb 2013

The protest began after a bus driver and a private car driver got into a heated altercation on a crowded road in Northern Chongqing District, Boxun.com reported. According to witnesses, the two...

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Egypt's hardline clerics urge killing of liberals and back rape of protesters

Two well-known ultraconservative clerics sparked an uproar with their edicts several days ago saying sharia, or Islamic law, required the killing of liberal opposition figures. A third fanned the...

Tunis at standstill amid clashes and Chokri Belaid funeral

Tunisian police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters yesterday as tens of thousands joined the funeral of opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose murder has plunged the country into new post-...

Police disperse protesters over death of migrant worker Zhang Derong

Authorities in Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu, sent about 1,000 riot police to disperse a protest by a group of migrant workers and hundreds of supporters in Wenjiang district on Monday...

Everyone wants to give CY a beating

Poor Leung Chun-ying. Couldn't even stroll through a Lunar New Year fair without being mobbed.

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EGYPT

Egyptian coalition says it does not endorse call to overthrow Mursi

"The NSF will fully align to the demands of the Egyptian people calling to topple the regime of tyranny and domination of the Muslim Brotherhood," a statement by the National Salvation Front...

EGYPT

Victim of Egyptian police beating blames protesters

A man beaten and dragged across the ground naked by Egyptian riot police during a demonstration on Friday was shown on state television blaming the incident on protesters.