Cops, protesters prevent Moscow gay parade
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Gay rights activists were pummeled by right-wing protesters and detained by police Saturday, preventing them from putting on a display of gay pride in defiance of a city ban.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of Russians protested across the country Saturday against a law replacing transportation and medical benefits for pensioners with cash payments, but were countered by massive rival demonstrations organized by pro-Kremlin forces.
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Russian police on Sunday broke up a  human rights campaigners' rally calling on President Vladimir  Putin to tell the whole truth about the deaths of more than 300  hostages in the Beslan school siege two years ago.
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Zimbabwean police have vowed to block an anti-government rally planned in Harare by a coalition of opposition and rights groups on Sunday.
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West European MPs and a Russian gay rights leader are arrested in Moscow during violence at a banned protest.
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Nearly 250 bicyclists were arrested during a mass protest that passed Madison Square Garden Friday night, the first major police crackdown on demonstrators just days before a wave of activists were expected to descend for the Republican National Convention.
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Police sprayed pepper spray to  disperse demonstrators who hurled debris and tried to break  through a security fence keeping protesters away from President  Bush's inaugural parade on Thursday.
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Police took control of central Moscow as government sanctioned soldiers marched across Red Square while Communists held up separate rallies under red banners, against a backdrop of fear of attacks from rebels in separatist Chechnya.
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Plainclothes agents broke up a Valentine's Day march by opposition activists expressing pro-European views, detaining about 10 people in the capital of the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.
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MOSCOW - Police stopped a man driving a car wired with land mines and explosives in downtown Moscow early Saturday, Russian security officials said.    The man, detained by Moscow police around 1 a.m., told police he had been paid $1,000 to park two cars with explosives in them along a Moscow street frequently used by top government officials, said the duty officer at the Federal Security Service...
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Russian riot police break up a rare rally by opponents to President Vladimir Putin in central St Petersburg.
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Riot police on Wednesday broke up a protest by several dozen students denouncing the police beating of a top opposition leader during a demonstration against a referendum that allows authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to stay in power.
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 3 -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's home town.
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Zimbabwean riot police thwarted a mass anti-government protest Sunday by rounding up dozens of opposition activists as veteran leader Robert Mugabe revealed ambitions for another term as president.
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Police arrested more than 125 people  on Tuesday as protesters opposed to Bush administration  policies marched near the World Trade Center site and blocked  streets in the city's financial district on the second day of  the Republican political convention.
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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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Police stopped angry retirees from blocking traffic Monday, the third day of protests in President Vladimir Putin's hometown against welfare benefit cutoffs that have sparked the largest outburst of public anger in the Russian leader's five years in power.