RIOTS erupted for a fifth day and strikes paralysed Greece on Wednesday, as unrest ignited by the police shooting of a teenager was fuelled further by resentment of economic hardship and government scandals...
BEIJING, July 13 - Demonstrations against Chinese consulates in Europe and the United States show that ethnic riots in Urumqi were orchestrated, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Demonstrators threw eggs, Molotov cocktails...
SYDNEY, May 15 - Looters ransacked Chinese-owned businesses in Papua New Guinea's second-largest city of Lae during riots in which one young man was reportedly hacked to death, PNG media reported on Friday. Thousands of...
* Toyota to suspend production in Japan for 11 days * China risks protest, riots as unemployment rises - report * U.S. auto sales slump in December, prospects bleak * Chile, South Korea announce stimulus...
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP)--Police Sunday violently broke up a protest in Russia's far east against higher tariffs on used imported cars. Riot police flown in from Moscow detained around 200 people - including several reporters -...
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* Obama pledges $5 billion in aid to automakers * U.S. economic data remains grim * European leaders resist US calls for more spending * Sarkozy pressured as 3 million take to streets NEW YORK/LONDON...
(Adds six injured, 19 arrested, police quotes, details) GUANGDONG (AFP)--Hundreds of workers sacked from a toy factory in China clashed with police and smashed buildings, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest bout of violent unrest...
(Updates with statement from toy company) GUANGDONG, China (AFP)--Hundreds of workers sacked from a toy factory in China clashed with police and smashed buildings, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest bout of violent unrest linked...
TOP STORIES ----------- TEHRAN - Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Sunday the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government's harsh methods as riot police prevented a demonstration by moderates taking...