Huge pro-secular protest in Turkey
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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 flag-waving protesters filled streets in yet another city in Turkey on Saturday, accusing the government of trying to impose Islamic values on the country's Western way of life.
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Opposition groups said tens of  thousands of people would gather in Budapest on Saturday in the  biggest protest yet against Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc  Gyurcsany over his admission that he lied to the electorate.
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Tens of thousands flocked to a religious rally in the Philippine capital's main park on Sunday in a show of defiance against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her supporters in the lower house of Congress.
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Some 20,000 people rallied in the largest demonstration in a week of rightist protests calling on Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to resign after he admitted lying about the economy.
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Turkey's Alevi Muslims have been branded "pagans" for their musical ceremonies and liberal customs but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seeking their votes as his party reaches out beyond its devout Sunni Muslim base.
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A protest by hundreds of youth activists turned violent Sunday, with protesters setting fire to cars and smashing shop windows, police said.
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The Youth of Serbia organization will hold a protest in Belgrade today against the election of Ramus Haradinaj as prime minister of Kosovo.
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Protests greet a leading Islamic cleric's opposition to new laws to protect women from rape within marriage.
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Police in Istanbul clash with right-wing demonstrators angry over alleged concessions to Orthodox Christians.
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A demonstration by about 50 people protesting Pope Benedict XVI's approaching visit to Turkey was broken up by police in Istanbul on Wednesday, CNN Turk reported.
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Thousands of onlookers cheered huge columns of Buddhist monks today in the largest street protests in two decades against Myanmarâs military rulers.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday to protest Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.
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Turkey's prime minister has promised to promote national unity and fight terrorism after his ruling Islamist party comfortably won parliamentary elections. But the AKP's Islamic roots and its appeal to religious supporters have unnerved many in the officially secular nation.
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Opposition groups said tens of   thousands of people would gather in Budapest on Saturday in the   biggest protest yet against Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc   Gyurcsany over his admission that he lied to the electorate.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has accused opponents of the Islamic-style headscarf for women of trying to sow division in secular but predominantly Muslim Turkey.
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About 40 members of a Turkish nationalist party occupied one of Istanbul's most famous buildings, the Haghia Sophia, on Wednesday to protest the visit next week of Pope Benedict XVI, police said.