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Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - Hundreds of police protesting a new law that cuts their benefits plunged this small South American nation into chaos on Thursday, shutting down airports and blocking highways in…

Hampshire win T20 final despite Christian chaos (AFP)

August 14th, 2010

Veteran Hampshire captain Dominic Cork, pictured in action in 2001, played a key role as Hampshire were crowned English county cricket's Twenty20 champions on their Rose Bowl home ground after a last ball win over Somerset.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Hampshire were crowned English county cricket’s Twenty20 champions on their Rose Bowl home ground after a last ball win over Somerset on Saturday.


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Who is the New Guerilla Group Threatening Chaos in Greece? (Time.com)

August 8th, 2010

Time.com - Since it emerged early last year, the deadly Greek terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries has been targeting journalists and police. Now it says it will turn the country…

UN says violence in Kyrgyzstan was orchestrated (AP)

June 15th, 2010

Uzbek woman Ranokhon who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, cries showing photos of her grandchildren who she became separated from and had to leave them behind, as she waits for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, at Jalal-Kuduk, Tuesday, June 15, 2010.  Uzbekistan closed the border Tuesday, leaving many camped out on the Kyrgyz side or stranded behind barbed-wire fences in no-man's land. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - The U.N. has found evidence of bloody intent behind the chaos in Kyrgyzstan that killed hundreds, left the nation’s second-biggest city a smoldering ruin and sent more than…

Chaos in Kyrgyzstan: Will Violence Cross the Border? (Time.com)

June 15th, 2010

An ethnic Uzbek mother holds her son as they wait at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border some 15 km to the south of Osh. Uzbekistan closed its border to refugees fleeing the deadly violence in Kyrgyzstan, some of whom have accused government forces of helping armed gangs slaughter ethnic Uzbeks.(AFP/Oxana Onipko)Time.com - Kyrgyzstan’s instability breaks out with attacks on the Uzbek minority who flee to their home country. Will ethnic vengeance lash out across the frontiers?


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Hopes raised for brokered talks in Thai chaos (AP)

May 18th, 2010

Onlookers watch from an overhead bridge as smoke billows during a clash between anti-government protesters and Thai army in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2010. Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP - Hopes rose Tuesday for an end to deadly mayhem in Thailand’s capital as leaders of the protest movement occupying central Bangkok said they would unconditionally accept an offer…

Thai chaos: UN urges talks as standoff wears on (AP)

May 18th, 2010

Onlookers watch from an overhead bridge as smoke billows during a clash between anti-government protesters and Thai army in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2010. Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP - Security forces arrested a 12-year-old boy Tuesday for allegedly setting fire to several houses during the mayhem gripping the Thai capital as the United Nations urged the government…

Thai chaos: Cease-fire talk, but standoff drags on (AP)

May 17th, 2010

Onlookers watch from an overhead bridge as smoke billows during a clash between anti-government protesters and Thai army in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2010. Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP - The tense standoff between thousands of Thai protesters and soldiers entered its sixth day Tuesday after negotiators for both sides spoke for the first time since Bangkok was…

Wounded rogue Thai general dies as chaos continues (AP)

May 17th, 2010

FILE--In this May 1, 2010 file photo, Thai Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdiphol, left, also known as 'Seh Daeng',  a rogue commander for the anti-government 'Red Shirts' gathers with others during a dispute over a barricade near Chulalongkorn Hospital.  According to Thai media sources Khattiya, who was shot by an unknown sniper five days ago, died of his wounds on Monday, May 17, 2010.  (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)AP - A rogue Thai general who helped anti-government protesters and was shot by an unidentified sniper died Monday from his wounds, raising fears of new violence after five days…

Deadly Thai chaos continues as gov’t rejects talks (AP)

May 16th, 2010

Anti-government protesters ignite tires ablaze in front of a stand off with Thai military, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand will impose a curfew Sunday and send Red Cross workers to evacuate women and children from Bangkok's deadly protest zone where 25 people have been killed in four days of street battles between anti-government demonstrators and troops. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Anti-government unrest boiling over in downtown Bangkok spread to other areas of the capital and Thailand as the military defended its use of force in a crackdown that…