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Rioting youths set fires, attack police, in Stockholm suburb, angered over police shooting
Associated PressSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an...Tags: Shootings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Immigration, Stockholm (Sweden)
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Supporters and opponents of Ukraine president clash in Kiev
ReutersKIEV, May 18 (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich scuffled as both sides held large rallies in the capital Kiev on Saturday, police and local media said. A dozen young men hurled stones and plastic water bottles...Tags: Punishment, Ukraine, Prisons, Yulia Tymoshenko, Nazi Party
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Panelists at IUSB discussion recall the rioting of 1967
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Charlotte Pfeifer was a 20-year-old wife and mother when she watched part of the city burn. Pfeifer, a former member of the South Bend Common Council, on Thursday recalled her memories of civil rights unrest in South Bend in 1967, when...Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Indiana University South Bend
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Kenyan police fire teargas at protest over MPs' pay
ReutersNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police fired teargas and water cannon outside parliament on Tuesday to disperse about 200 people demonstrating against lawmakers' demands for a salary 130 times the legal minimum wage. Civil rights groups organized the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Justice System, Nairobi (Kenya), Civil Rights
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Soccer-Violence cuts short PSG's title celebrations
ReutersPARIS, May 13 (Reuters) - Paris St Germain's Ligue 1 title celebrations were cut short on Monday after clashes between spectators and police in the west of the French capital. Some of those involved wore PSG shirts and climbed on to temporary scaffolding...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Torah, Christian Orthodoxy, Religious Texts
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Justice, 64 years later
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was a crime so improbable that many had trouble believing it could have happened at all: Three black soldiers stood accused of lynching an Italian prisoner of war, found dangling from a wire on an obstacle training course at Ft. Lawton in the middle of...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Heads of State, Government, Defense, Crimes
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Probe set for LAPD response to party near USC
The first time the two Los Angeles Police Department officers walked to the backyard of an off-campus house party near USC, they had no problem with the crowd as they told the organizer to turn off the music and begin shutting down the party. The...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Government, Safety of Citizens
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Black USC students accuse LAPD of bias after party clash
The Los Angeles Police Department opened an internal investigation into its response at an off-campus house party near USC amid complaints from some students that the department showed racial bias and used heavy-handed tactics. The incident occurred...
Tags: Halloween, Government, Safety of Citizens, Health and Safety at School, Police Arrests
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Thousands in Russia demand new elections, release of prisoners
This post has been corrected. See bottom for details. MOSCOW — In the biggest show of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin since last May, thousands of demonstrators gathered Monday near the Kremlin to demand an immediate release of...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Activism, Demonstration, Russia, Political Dissent
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Soccer-Police braced for climax of Israeli relegation battle
ReutersBy Ori Lewis JERUSALEM, May 3 (Reuters) - Israeli police will be out in force on Saturday for a tense relegation clash between Arab club Bnei Sakhnin and Beitar Jerusalem, bastion of the political far right, as the fiercest battle to avoid the drop...Tags: Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Greeks strike, Turkish police fire teargas in May Day protests
ReutersBy Renee Maltezou ATHENS, May 1 (Reuters) - Trains and ferries were cancelled and hospital staff walked off the job in Greece on Wednesday as workers marked May Day with a strike against harsh austerity required by the country's foreign lenders....Tags: Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Monetary Fund, Christian Orthodoxy, International Workers' Day
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