SOUTH AFRICAN COMMISSION ACC– USES POLICE OF LYING
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA FILE – In this file photo taken Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin…
Protests and demonstrations
IRISH ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Police hold a line of barriers as protestors gather outside the government in Dublin, as politicians return after the summer recess, Wednesday Sept. 18, 2013. Some hundreds…
PEOPLE MARCH AGAINST GREEK SEGREGATION AT ALABAMA
By JAY REEVES In this Aug. 17, 2013 photo, female students at the University of Alabama prepare to run from Bryant-Denny Stadium to their new sorority houses after receiving their…
BANGLADESH OPPOSITION PROTESTS WAR CRIMES VERDICT
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi social activists shout slogans during a rally against a strike called by Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The Jamaat-e-Islami…
BRAZIL LEADER POSTPONES TRIP TO US OVER SPYING
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – In this April 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, meets with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in the Oval Office of the White House…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…
ALABAMA CHURCH MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBING
By JAY REEVES Churchgoers file outside the church as a wreath is carried at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The congregation gathered outside…
CAMBODIAN POLICE CLASH WITH OPPOSITION; 4 WOUNDED
By SOPHENG CHEANG and JUSTINE DRENNAN A supporter of Cambodia’s opposition parties move barbed wire set up by the police during a gathering on a street for marching, in Phnom…