NYC Police Arrest 250 in Bicycle Protest
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In the first major clash between police and demonstrators converging for the Republican National Convention, more than 250 bicyclists were arrested during a protest ride that snaked through the city and passed by Madison Square Garden.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb. 28 -- Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday as pro-democracy activists defied a police ban on demonstrations and took to the streets to protest growing repression and economic hardship in Zimbabwe.
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More than 50,000 riot police have been mobilised across South Korea to enforce a ban on mass protests against a proposed US free trade deal, after the government last week vowed zero tolerance for violent rallies.
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roaring two-mile river of demonstrators surged through the canyons of Manhattan yesterday in the city&#39;s largest political protest in decades, a raucous but peaceful spectacle that pilloried
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China has halved the number of bicycles stolen to about 2 million in the past nine months, police said on Thursday, following a campaign to clamp down on theft months before its capital hosts the Olympics.
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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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QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - A New York City man has been arrested for the 100th time.  Officials with the Warren County Sheriff's Department in eastern New York said they found Anthony Love, 40, of Brooklyn with $1,300 worth of merchandise stolen from outlet stores in his car.
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Police announced the arrests Friday of two alleged members of a radical leftist group similar to the Red Brigades.
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Police and security forces raided an apartment where members of an opposition youth group were meeting Sunday and detained some 30 people, an activist said.
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Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port.
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More than 300 demonstrators were  arrested in the Danish capital on Saturday after violent  clashes between police and youths who were protesting against  the planned closure of a youth center in the city.
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More than 100 people are arrested in anti-Mafia operations in Italy and elsewhere, Italian police say.
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More than 150,000 people took to the streets to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest anti-government demonstrations in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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New York Police arrested more than 900 people late on Tuesday as anti-Bush activists blocked traffic, staged anti-war protests and harassed Republican delegates on the second day of a convention to nominate President Bush to a second term.
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Hundreds of protesters clashed with police Sunday near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul during a demonstration against the country's plans to send more troops to Iraq.
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New York police arrest 264 people protesting against President Bush ahead of next week's Republican Party Convention.
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NEW YORK - Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week.    The arrests, including several on Wednesday, far surpass those made in much more violent circumstances at Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention...