Baloch protesters blockade roads
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Protesters sever key road links in Pakistan in more unrest over the army's killing of tribal leader Akbar Bugti.
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Protesters in Pakistan are back on the streets calling for Musharraf to go.
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SANTIAGO -- Police used tear gas, water cannons, and clubs against demonstrators staging nationwide protests yesterday over government social and economic policies. More than 370 people were detained, officials said. About 50 protesters and 18 police officers were injured, none seriously. Senator Alejandro Navarro, who joined the demonstration against the government's free-market policies, was clubbed in the head by a ...
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DHAKA : Bangladesh was brought to a standstill by the third general strike in a week called by the main opposition Awami League to protest against a deadly attack on a rally, police and witnesses said.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt as local security forces struggled to keep the protest under control.
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Traffic on two major highways linking Kathmandu with the rest of Nepal has come to a virtual halt on the second day of a rebel-imposed blockade.
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Several hundred protesters marched through the streets of the southwestern city of Seville on Sunday to protest a forthcoming NATO meeting to be held there, officials said.Comment
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Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse a protest by some of the 1.1 million victims of a cyclone Friday, as fresh storms hit India and flooded villages awaited help in Afghanistan.
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KATHMANDU: The Maoist blockade, which entered its sixth day on Monday, has effectively closed all roads linking the hill-ringed capital city of Kathmandu with the rest of Nepal.
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Thousands of textile factory workers took to the streets blocking a major highway in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, demanding a pay rise and overtime payments.
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Police firing tear gas and bullets halted protests Wednesday, blocking mass rallies the opposition hoped would show the power behind their demands for the president to step down. At least two people were fatally shot by police.
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Hundreds protest against the building of a wall between a Shia district of Baghdad and a neighbouring Sunni area.
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Life was paralysed in eastern and central Nepal Friday due to an indefinite blockade of highways by Maoists to protest the killing and detention of their cadres by government forces, leading to sharp increase in commodity prices and stockpiling of
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Thousands of protesters poured into Bangladesh's capital Sunday and were met by roughly equally large numbers of security officials after a major political alliance launched a fresh transport blockade to force electoral reforms, witnesses and a news report said.
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Ethnic Georgians in the breakaway South Ossetia region block roads in a further escalation of tensions.
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Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Maoist rebel blockade of the two major highways leading into Nepal&#39;s capital is affecting the flow of food and supplies, the BBC said Wednesday.
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Thousands of people rallied Sunday across Pakistan's Baluchistan province, condemning the government for not returning the body of a slain tribal leader to his family.