Peaceful daytime protests turned violent as night fell. Tear gas and water cannon were used once again to disperse protesters.
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Hundreds of police intervened after around 4,000 striking staff at Nike’s factory in the Cambodian capital clashed with colleagues, who continued working. This comes after the factory’s management refused to raise monthly salaries by US.
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Cars were engulfed in flames on Monday night and youths clashed with police in the north-western Stockholm district of Husby for a second night in a row.
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According to the NYT, the group leading the new Sunni insurgency in Iraq is called the Men of the Army of the Naqshbandia Order or JRTN. They are said to be led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists and were on the payroll of the US!
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Police officers and social workers were among 21 people killed in suspected terrorist attacks in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, officials said yesterday. The incident began at around noon on Tuesday in a town in Kashgar Prefecture’s Bachu County, some 1,200 kilometers southwest of Urumqi, the regional capital.
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After the tightest of presidential election outcomes hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in the Venezuelan capital.
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Broader clashes between angry residents and police started on Tuesday morning in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, the area where the disputed gold mining triggers tension. Greek media report that the residents started the incidents when they attempted to hinder police units from searching in some homes of the area.
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Yes, things are just going great in the NATO donor state of Macedonia. The Macedonians and the Albanians are at each others throats again.
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Two years after their Arab Spring uprising against Bahrain’s ruling family, protesters have been back on the streets in what they said was a day of civil disobedience
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“NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake,” Musk said in a Twitter post yesterday. “Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn’t actually charge to max & took a long detour.”
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