Malaysian riot stirs fears of opposition clashes
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A recent riot in Malaysia has raised fears of more clashes ahead of widely expected early elections as parties jostle for position and the opposition fights curbs on rallies.
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The day's violence underscored the rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as the embattled nation heads toward elections in January.
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Anger mounted in the Muslim world Wednesday over Britain&#39;s knighthood for novelist Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia for the first time and fresh demonstrations in Pakistan.
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The home of prime minister and the office of the president were attacked today as factional fighting intensified.
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Clashes erupted between soldiers and Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines, with both sides accusing the other of violating a truce ahead of peace talks.
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RIOTING mobs, protesting over the death of an Aboriginal man in custody, yesterday burnt down a courthouse and a police station and barracks and threatened to kill officers on Queensland&#39;s Palm Island.
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Opposition supporters rioted in the western city of Kisumu on Tuesday after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki named several members of a new cabinet, dashing hopes of an end to post-election bloodshed.
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Four Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday during protests against power cuts, raising tensions in a country gripped by a political crisis.
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Monks and pro-democracy protesters in clashes with riot police.
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ANGRY mobs burnt down buildings and threatened to kill police and media during a riot yesterday over a death in custody on troubled Palm Island, off the north Queensland coast.
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Hundreds arrested near presidential palace as protesters clash with riot troops.
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ISTANBUL The police on Sunday clashed with hundreds of rock-throwing nationalists who staged a protest outside the seat of the spiritual leader of the world&#39;s Orthodox Christians.
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Hundreds of Bahraini Shiites clashed with riot police Tuesday after the funeral of a protester who died after a similar confrontation a day earlier.
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Protesters set fire to at least two gas stations in Tehran last night after the announcement of the fuel rationing.
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Pakistan's government, accused of using strongarm tactics and acting unconstitutionally over moves to sack the country's top judge, faces the prospect of growing opposition protests.
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Dhaka, Aug 30. (PTI):Fear of violence gripped Bangladesh as the country&#39;s two major parties faced-off on the streets today to protest the deadly grenade attack on the main opposition rally which killed 20 people and injured more than 300.
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Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.