Angry villagers occupy platforms
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria - Multinational oil companies began talks with hundreds of Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms yesterday in a dispute over jobs that shut at least 90 000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil production.
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An angry peasant pushes his clenched fists through the gates during a protest outside the gates of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac, 17 November 2004, where police broke up a protest by striking workers and sympathisers a day earlier, leaving as many as seven
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AMBRUS, Slovenia  - About 1,000 Slovenian villagers scuffled with police late on Saturday as they protested against the return of a large Roma Gypsy family that had been evicted last month.
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Protesters are to gather near the site of a proposed eco-town planned for a former Army camp later.
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Complaints about apartment buildings have found a raucous new outlet as residents turn to online message boards to share gripes and gossip.
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Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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Gunfire and gang violence are alarming people in this farm town where the usual background noise is the reassuring chug of field machinery.
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Hundreds of squatters have moved onto this vast cattle ranch and planted crops in hopes the land will one day be declared their own, putting them sharply at odds with the British-owned company that claims rightful ownership.
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Many people are finding themselves cornered by a loquacious stranger, especially one whom theyâre paying.
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Thousands protested a proposal for their provinceâs future, which they say falls short of their desire for independence.
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JERUSALEM -- Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers and their supporters demonstrated against their government&#39;s plan to remove all settlements from Gaza and four from the West Bank, taking pains to keep their protest peaceful to counter warnings about
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Travellers who parked caravans in a Northumberland village will face a site visit by council planners tomorrow, amid objections from local people.
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Pakistan villagers said army helicopter gunships launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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More than 1,000 Maoists launched a violent assault on a district headquarters in Nepal's northwestern mountains, as angry traders rallied on the streets of Kathmandu to protest a crippling rebel blockade of the capital, now also hit by a general strike.
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Many Andar residents are anxious about security and resentful of the government and the police, whom they accused of preying on the people.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.