Police use force to stop Georgia protest
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Riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon Wednesday to break up demonstrations calling for the ouster of President Mikhail Saakashvili. The pro-Western leader declared a state of emergency and banned all news broadcasts except state-controlled television.
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Several hundred government opponents protested in the snow Wednesday to demand a presidential runoff vote as Georgia's top electoral official said a nearly complete ballot count confirmed Mikhail Saakashvili's re-election.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declares a state of emergency after police break up opposition protests.
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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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Police used batons to beat back hundreds of protesters as an opposition-led general strike brought Bangladesh to a standstill yesterday for the second day.
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Zimbabwean riot police patrolled a restive Harare township on Monday to stop possible unrest, a day after crushing an opposition rally amid government fears of a new street campaign against President Robert Mugabe.
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Nearly 30 people are being held in Georgia on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government, officials say.
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Riot police fired bullets and used tear gas and water cannons Tuesday to disperse thousands of protesters demanding the release of more than 200 veterans and their sympathizers detained for protesting earlier this month, a police official said.
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At least three people were injured on Friday when police fired tear gas and sparred with rock-throwing demonstrators during a rally to protest the planned weekend visit of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
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SANTIAGO -- Chilean riot police used water cannons and tear gas yesterday to break up a demonstration by hundreds of rock-throwing protesters before more than 20,000 people marched to vent their anger at Pacific Rim leaders, particularly US President
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Police broke up an opposition rally in Minsk on Tuesday protesting against the results of a referendum, which allowed President Alexander Lukashenko to extend his rule after more than a decade in power.
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Zimbabwe police on Thursday extended a ban on political rallies and protests in Harare which the country's embattled opposition has likened to "a state of emergency."
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Riot police used water cannons to turn protesters away from the fence surrounding the Group of Eight summit Thursday, while other protesters led authorities on a boat chase on the Baltic Sea.
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ATHENS - Thousands of anti-war demonstrators clashed with Greek riot police in Athens&#39; main tourist district Friday after a rally to protest US Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s upcoming visit to the Olympics degenerated into a rock-throwing melee.
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NEW YORK - Police braced for a day of civil disobedience Tuesday after an ugly turn in relations between convention protesters and the thousands of officers assigned to police them.    A march from the United Nations to Madison Square Garden ended in violence Monday after a protester attacked a plainclothes detective on a scooter, knocking him unconscious...
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Police northwest of Paris used tear gas, rubber pellets and fired a warning shot to disperse a crowd that surrounded their vehicle after they tried to stop a driver for not wearing a seat belt, a police union official said Monday.
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Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds of protesters heeding an opposition call for a "million-man" rally that many fear could worsen the violence that already has killed 300 people