Thousands protest in Afghan capital for banned pyramid scheme
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Around 3,000 mostly young Afghan men marched through Kabul Sunday to demand the government lift a temporary ban on an international money-making scheme.
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Several thousand Pakistani Islamists rallied on Friday to denounce the government for ordering an army crackdown on a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad.
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Thousands of Venezuelans protest over Colombia's capture of a rebel leader in Caracas last month.
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of La Paz on Friday to protest efforts to relocate Bolivia's capital in one of the largest demonstrations in the history of the Andean country.
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MOSCOW -- About 1,000 people gathered in front of the US and British embassies in Moscow Friday, accusing the countries of having a double standard in the war on terror.
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Afghans turned out to vote in large numbers today as Hamid Karzai and his rivals disputed the integrity of the vote.
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Thousands of people rallied in Manila on Friday calling for the resignation of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over a corruption scandal.
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Hundreds of backers of the deposed governor of Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat took to the streets and burned and looted UN offices on Sunday to
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JABALYA, Gaza Strip  - Thousands of supporters of the Islamist group Hamas protested in the Gaza Strip on Friday against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad that sparked Muslim outrage two years ago.
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Pakistan's opposition called for mass rallies to protest the decision by President Pervez Musharraf not to quit as army chief as promised, accusing the general of undermining democracy.
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Hundreds of Chechens protest against moves to pardon a former Russian colonel who strangled a Chechen teenager.
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Police tightened security and searched cars entering Kabul on Friday as thousands of former mujahedeen gathered for a mass rally to support a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, officials said.
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Hundreds of Egyptians defy a ban on public protests to call for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 23-year rule.
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More than 160 non-governmental groups declared a boycott of IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest against a clampdown on free speech and the banning of activists.
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Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi opposition activists protest to demand electoral reforms.
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More than 100,000 Turks took to the streets on Saturday to protest against government plans to lift an Islamic headscarf ban at universities and to defend the country's strong secular tradition.
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Thousands of supporters of an outlawed Islamic militant group held a protest rally in central Pakistan Friday in defiance of a nationwide ban on public gatherings imposed