Protests erupt over New Orleans housing
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Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
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About 200 people chanting "No justice, no peace" marched through the city Saturday to protest the deaths of two black men in police custody.
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Thousands of civil rights protesters march through Jena, Louisiana, a US town at the centre of a race row.
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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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New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.
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Musicians marched a silent "second line" through the French Quarter on Sunday to protest the state of New Orleans' famed music scene nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
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A powerful storm and likely a tornado hit the New Orleans area early Tuesday, damaging dozens of homes and business, ripping the roof off a hotel, and injuring at least three people.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported.
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After overnight riots, hundreds of Lebanese staged a protest in this border town Tuesday over the death in custody of a suspected Al-Qaeda leader arrested over bomb plots against Western embassies.
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Several hundred Jaguar employees took to the streets in protest against plans to end car production at the historic home of the British luxury automaker.
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Protesters armed with machetes and rocks demonstrated in Haiti&#39;s capital yesterday to demand the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, chanting &quot;Aristide or death&quot;, while the toll of dead and missing from
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Violence erupted Friday in the Haitian capital, a day after three police officers were killed in a clash with protesters demanding the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the ousted president.
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Thousands of Hezbollah-led protesters gathered in downtown Beirut on Sunday, demanding Prime Minister Fuad Saniora cede some power to the opposition or step down.
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A protest of the city's reinstatement of a police officer involved in a fracas with skateboarders drew more than two dozen people to the scene where the boarders were arrested.
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
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Demonstrators carrying colorful  banners and signs marched up one of New York's main avenues on  Sunday to protest President Bush's policies over the Iraq war  and the economy the day before the Republican convention opens.
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Protests erupted Sunday after electoral officials announced that the incumbent won Thursday's vote.