LOW TURNOUT FOR PRO-MORSI RALLIES IN EGYPT
By TONY G. GABRIEL and SARAH EL DEEB Egyptian security forces deploy in Tanta, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, where supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi clashed with residents, killing…
Political and civil unrest
PUTIN BANS RALLIES IN SOCHI NEAR THE 2014 OLYMPICS
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, greets World War II veterans before an opening ceremony of newly built fountain called Children Dancing in the southern Russian city of…
CHINESE CITIZENS MOVEMENT LEADER ARRESTED
By GILLIAN WONG FILE – In this July 17, 2009 file photo, legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, center, walks past Chinese lawyers, Jiang Tianyong, right, and Yang Huiwen, second left, after…
ACTIVISTS SCUFFLE WITH SWEDISH POLICE OVER MINING
JOKKMOKK, Sweden (AP) — Police have removed some 50 screaming and singing activists who were blocking a road in northern Sweden to protest a British company’s plans to build an…
EGYPT COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF MUBARAK
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this Thursday, March 4, 2010 file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak addresses the media after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not…
EGYPT QUESTIONS BROTHERHOOD’S TOP LEADER IN PRISON
By HAMZA HENDAWI In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Mohammed Badie, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is seen after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo,…
NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE IN COURT OVER PROTEST ARREST
By JENNIFER PELTZ FILE – In this July 10, 2013 file photo, New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters outside of a police precinct in New…
UK LAWMAKER ARRESTED AT ANTI-FRACKING PROTEST
Activists link arms to resist police officers who were trying clear the road outside the main entrance to the Cuadrilla exploratory drilling site in Balcombe, southeast England , as anti…