Posts Tagged ‘ Security Forces ’

Deadly clashes grip Cairo’s Tahrir Square 

November 21, 2011
Deadly clashes grip Cairo’s Tahrir Square 

An Egyptian protester tries to put out a fire at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during clashes with security forces. At least 13 people were killed as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt’s first elections since Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Police and military forces used batons, tear gas [...]

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Assad warns of ‘quake’ if West intervenes in Syria 

October 30, 2011
Assad warns of ‘quake’ if West intervenes in Syria 

Tens of thousands of people rally in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on October 26. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has warned that any Western intervention would cause an “earthquake” inflaming the region, after almost 100 people died in the bloodiest two days of the uprising against his rule. Assad in an interview [...]

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Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

May 25, 2011
Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

Pakistani security personnel and volunteers search for victims in the rubble of a destroyed police station following a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar on May 25, 2011. A Taliban suicide bomber flattened a Pakistani police station on Wednesday, killing six people in the latest brazen assault on security forces since US troops killed Osama bin [...]

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Thai agency says army did not kill Reuters cameraman 

February 27, 2011
Thai agency says army did not kill Reuters cameraman 

A Thai policeman holds a picture of Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto handed over by anti-government “red shirt” protesters in front of the Japanese embassy in Bangkok December 13, 2010. Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has concluded that Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto, who was killed during political protests last year, was not shot by security [...]

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Toll rises from Yemen crackdown on protests 

February 26, 2011
Toll rises from Yemen crackdown on protests 

A veiled Yemeni woman wears a headband with the national colours and the phrase “game over” during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Sanaa. Police gunfire killed four people as the biggest protests yet swept impoverished Yemen, demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down after three decades in power. At least 19 people have [...]

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Protesters stage mass rally against Bahrain ruler 

February 23, 2011
Protesters stage mass rally against Bahrain ruler 

Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama calling for the government’s downfall. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into Manama’s Pearl Square calling for the government’s downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests. The capital’s streets were clogged as protesters [...]

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Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted 

February 9, 2011
Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted 

An Egyptian flag is carried through the crowd in the opposition stronghold in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 8, 2011. Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as re-invigorated protesters flocked again to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Hosni Mubarak quit immediately. A day after Egyptians staged [...]

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Two released in graveyard scuffle case 

January 29, 2011

  An appeals court in the central city of Da Nang released two convicts on Wednesday, after they plead guilty to “causing public disorder” and “resisting officials on duty.”  Following their admission of guilt, the court reduced their sentence to time served. Last October, Phan Thi Nhan, 46, and Nguyen Huu Minh, 48 were sentenced [...]

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Suicide bombing hits Pakistani Navy headquarters, two killed

December 3, 2009
Suicide bombing hits Pakistani Navy headquarters, two killed

A navy official was killed as a suicide blast took place outside the Navy headquarters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday, police said. A security person guards near the blast site at Pakistan’s Navy headquaters in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, Dec. 2, 2009. The suicide bombing resulted in at least one person dead [...]

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60 militants killed in Pakistan’s tribal area operation

October 19, 2009
60 militants killed in Pakistan’s tribal area operation

Pakistani security forces killed at least 60 militants in the last 24 hours in the military operation in the country’s tribal area of South Waziristan, the military said Sunday in a press release. Pakistan Army troops prepare to leave for patrolling during a curfew in Bannu, a town on the edge of Pakistan’s lawless tribal [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...