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Immigrants in Italy end 2-week protest atop crane (AP)

November 15th, 2010

AP - Four immigrants who have lived atop a 35-meter (115-foot) crane for two weeks to protest Italy’s immigration policies have climbed down.

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Thousands of UK students protest tuition fees hike (AP)

November 10th, 2010

Demonstrators burn protest banners outside Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010, against an increase in university tuition fees. Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year - three times the current rate.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Tens of thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and violence erupted as a minority battled police and trashed a…

Afghan candidates, lawmakers in new poll protest (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Scores of disgruntled lawmakers and candidates in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, marred by allegations of fraud, renewed protests on Sunday over the September poll and called for a fresh…

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,…

Fuel supplies low as French protest pension reform (AP)

October 16th, 2010

Students shoot slogans as they demonstrate in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. Saturday's march from the Place de la Republique in Paris was the fifth in a full month of protests that have swept this nation of 64 million people, affecting trains, subways, airports, hospitals, schools and other facilities. Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low Saturday in parts of France as workers took to the streets for another nationwide protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62. (AP Photo Thibault/Camus)AP - Scattered fuel shortages rattled drivers and France’s main airport warned that some flights must arrive with enough fuel to get back home as hundreds of thousands marched Saturday…

Fuel supplies low as French protest austerity plan (AP)

October 16th, 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo, French gendarmes block the Fos-sur-Mer oil depot, in southern France. Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low Saturday in parts of France as the country braced for another nationwide protest against government plans to raise the retirement age. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)AP - Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low Saturday in parts of France as workers took to the streets for another nationwide protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan…

Greek Truckers Protest Law to Open Up Competition (Time.com)

September 23rd, 2010

Time.com - Truck drivers in Greece have been blocking highways to protest a new law that, after 40 years of monopoly, opens up their industry to competition

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Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest (AP)

September 18th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI  wipes his face as he conducts a mass in Westminster Cathedral in London, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he was ashamed of the 'unspeakable' sexual abuse of children by priests, telling the British faithful during Mass in Westminster Cathedral that he was deeply sorry and hoped the church's humiliation would help victims heal. Benedict also said he hoped the church would be able to use its contrition to purify itself from the 'sins' of its ministers and be able to renew its commitment to educating the young. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church,…

2 killed in Afghan anti-Quran-burning protest (AP)

September 12th, 2010

An Afghan man walks past an election poster of parliamentarian candidate Mohammad Daud Kalakani in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Sept. 12, 2010. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Two protesters died and four were injured as Afghans protested for a third day Sunday against a plan by an American pastor to burn copies of the Islamic…

Thousands of Afghans in anti-Quran-burning protest (AP)

September 11th, 2010

An Afghan man lies in hospital after being injured at a protest in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran, at Badakhshan, northern Afganistan, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Police in the northern province of Badakhshan say several hundred demonstrators ran toward a NATO compound where four attackers and five police were injured in clashes. Protesters also burned an American flag at a mosque after Friday prayers. (AP Photo)AP - Thousands of people protested in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday against a small American church’s earlier plan to burn the Muslim holy book, chanting “Death to America” and setting…