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Bangladesh police fire tear gas at protesters (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Army personnel stand guard in front of the Dhaka Cantonment during clashes between activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police in Dhaka November 13, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew BirajReuters - Police fired tear gas in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday as political violence that broke out on Saturday continued during a day-long general strike, officers and witnesses said.


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Greek police say no bomb in Hungary embassy package (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Members of Yemen's U.S.-trained counter-terrorism force raid a house during field training near Sanaa November 9, 2010.   Yemen needs more help from its allies to combat al Qaeda, its foreign minister said, after the militant group said it had been responsible for sending U.S.-bound parcel bombs on two aircraft. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)Reuters - A suspicious package found at the Hungarian embassy in Athens on Tuesday contained no explosives, Greek police said.


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German police try to free blocked nuclear waste train (AFP)

November 8th, 2010

Protestors against the transport of nuclear waste from France to Germany use a burning vehicle as part of a barricade in Metzingen on November 7, 2010.(AFP/Odd Andersen)AFP - German police Monday began dispersing activists who succeeded in peacefully blocking a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany after earlier protests erupted in violence.


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German police clash with anti-nuclear activists (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Police tussles with demonstrators as they clear an area where anti-nuclear activists digged a hole beside the possible Castor transportation route in Splietau near Dannenberg November 6, 2010. REUTERS/Pawel KopczynskiReuters - German police used truncheons and teargas Sunday to clear rail lines as they clashed with anti-nuclear activists trying to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste heading to a…

Swedish police hold man in possible race shootings (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - A 38-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of being behind a series of possibly racially motivated shootings in southern Sweden, police said on Sunday.

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Kenyan police officer shoots 10 dead (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - A Kenyan provincial police officer shot 10 people dead at several bars in a small town northeast of Nairobi before surrendering, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

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Greek police detonate bomb sent to French embassy (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - Greek police detonated a parcel bomb on Thursday addressed to the French embassy in Athens and were investigating others packages at a courier company in a city suburb.

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Greek police detonate parcel sent to French embassy (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - Greek police detonated a parcel bomb on Thursday addressed to the French embassy in Athens.

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Police cars torched in China land protest: report (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - Rampaging villagers in southwestern China overturned and torched dozens of vehicles in a mass protest over what they say is an illegal land grab for a construction project,…

Plane package for Italy PM catches fire: police source (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Reuters - A package addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi found on a cargo plane from Athens caught fire when police opened it, an Italian police source said Wednesday.

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