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Haiti rioters attack U.N. troops, one protester killed (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

A Haitian resident holds his relative who is suffering from cholera at St-Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 12, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - Protesters in Haiti, blaming United Nations troops for a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds of people, attacked U.N. peacekeepers in two cities on Monday.


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Rioters burn police station in northern Nigeria (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Nigeria's Osayemi Oludamola, pictured here after winning the women's 100m at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on October 7, 2010, has tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine. Methylhexanamine is a stimulant that was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned drugs in 2009.(AFP/File/William West)AP - Rioters set a police station ablaze in northern Nigeria near where a radical Islamic sect operates, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The attack was similar to one that…

Serb police clash with anti-gay rioters (AP)

October 10th, 2010

Protesters throw stones at the members of the riot police during an anti gay pride march in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Riot police in Serbia clashed with some hundreds of far-right supporters who tried to disrupt a gay pride march in Belgrade on Sunday, with more than a dozen people reported injured, officials said. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - Serbian riot police fought running battles Sunday with thousands of far-right supporters who hurled Molotov cocktails and stun grenades to try disrupt a gay pride march in downtown…

Belfast police, Catholic rioters clash over parade (AP)

July 13th, 2010

Police remove a nationalist protester before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES **AP - Police struggled Tuesday to quell rioting by Irish Catholics in several parts of Northern Ireland following a day of mass Protestant parades, an annual event that often pushes…

Mobs burn villages, slaughter Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP ** Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010, to seek refuge in Uzbekistan from mobs of Kyrgyz men attacking the minority Uzbek community. The country's second-largest city, Osh, slid into chaos Friday when gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with firearms and metal rods marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and set their homes on fire. Thousands of terrified ethnic Uzbeks were fleeing toward the nearby border with Uzbekistan.(AP Photo/D. Dalton Bennett)AP - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday as ethnic rioting engulfed southern Kyrgyzstan. The government ordered troops to shoot rioters dead but even that measure…

Bangkok battles: 16 dead in clashes, explosions (AP)

May 14th, 2010

Anti-government demonstrators are arrested by Thai soldiers in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 14, 2010. Thai troops fired bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters rioting near the U.S. and Japanese embassies Friday as an army push to clear the streets sparked deadly clashes and turned central Bangkok into a virtual war zone. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Soldiers opened fire on anti-government protesters who battled them with firebombs and homemade rockets Friday in a second straight day of escalating violence as troops tried to clear…

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