Three killed as Myanmar troops battle protests
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Seething crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Troops and riot police took up positions outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new protest marches against military rule, witnesses said.
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Government troops retaliate violently against protesters in Burma's capital, sealing off streets and firing into crowds
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Kenyans faced a third day of opposition protests on Friday as the death toll mounted from rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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The Myanmar junta poured troops and police armed with rifles into central Yangon on Tuesday in an attempt to end the biggest demonstrations against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Three people are killed and at least 25 are injured in Nepal after police open fire on protesters.
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Myanmar's military junta said on Wednesday it had used tear gas and fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilians protesting in the northwestern coastal city of Sittwe.
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The Security Council calls for restraint as several people are reported killed in Burma's crackdown on protests.
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Togo's army clashed with protesters in the  capital Lome on Saturday, killing at least three people, while  West African officials told a government delegation to restore  constitutional rule or face sanctions.
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Two people have been killed in clashes between troops and stone-throwing protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing a regional governor.
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Three Cambodian Buddhist monks and six riot police were hurt on Monday in a fight that broke out when the monks tried to deliver a protest letter to the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh, officials and witnesses said.
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BANGKOK : Six protesters were killed Monday when security forces broke up a demonstration outside a police station in Thailand&#39;s troubled Muslim-majority south, a hospital source said.
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Nine people are killed in Burma during a violent crackdown on protests against the junta, state media says.
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At least three people were  killed as protests spread in Pakistan's gas-rich Baluchistan  province on Sunday, a day after a popular nationalist rebel  leader was killed fighting government forces.
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Several military trucks were stationed outside Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Tuesday, the assembly point for tens of thousands of Buddhist monks marching against Myanmar's ruling generals, a Reuters witness said.
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Troops fired shots over the heads of large crowds in Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years intensified.
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Riot police beat back protesters including monks at a Rangoon pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.