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Yemen protests: Thousands call on president to leave
Demonstrations were led by opposition members and youth activists.
Thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating in the capital Sanaa, calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for more than 30 years, to step down.
This comes after mass protests in Egypt and a popular uprising in Tunisia that ousted its long-time leader.
Yemeni opposition members and youth activists gathered in four parts of the city, including...
Food prices rocket by 50% as global hunger epidemic causes riots and famines
Food crisis: A leading Government think tank has warned scaremongering over GM farming is no longer acceptable.
The cost of food will soar by 50 per cent over the next few decades as the world becomes racked by famine, mass migrations and riots, experts have warned.
The increase will be triggered by the exploding world population, rising cost of fuel and increased competition for water, according to...
Egypt and Lebanon protests: Thousands clash with police on streets
Fury: Furious Egyptians clash with riot police in protests which rocked the capital city of Cairo.
Appointment of new prime minister in Lebanon sparks riots.
Thousands of anti-government protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution clashed with riot police in the centre of Cairo today demanding the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak.
Police responded with water cannon and attacked crowds with batons...
Food price jumps protested in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco
Riots and Protests in North Africa.
Prices of basic food items have rocketed in the last year, hitting the world’s least developed countries the hardest, where working people commonly spend half or more of their income on food.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization announced in January that the food price index rose 32 percent between June and December 2010. Prices are expected...
London Tuition Hike Protests Turn Violent
Fourteen people were injured and 35 were arrested outside the Conservative Party's headquarters. Other demonstrators massed near Parliament.
A demonstration against government proposals to cut education spending and steeply increase tuition for university students turned violent on Wednesday as protesters attempted to storm the building that houses the Conservative Party.
The protesters scuffled...
French riot police clash with students as petrol stations run dry
French riot police and students fired tear gas and petrol bombs at each other while truckers blocked roads and almost 3,000 petrol stations ran dry, as nationwide protests intensified.
Despite claims that it had petrol provision “under control”, the government said it had activated an emergency crisis cell charged with maintaining fuel supplies.
The opposition Socialists criticised François Fillon,...
At least 50 cars torched by Immigrant Rioters in southeast France
Photo taken on July 17, 2010 shows disturbance in Grenoble city, southeast France.
Between 50 to 60 cars were burned out in an overnight disturbance in Grenoble city, southeast France, from Friday to Saturday after police shot dead an armed malefactor who was on his fly from a robbery.
The blaze took place at night at a populous district in Grenoble, the area where policemen killed the young fugitive...
Immigrant youths riot in Sweden, burning down school
Up to 100 youths rioted for a second night in Rinkeby, Stockholm
Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.
The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance.
Police say up to 100 youths went on the rampage, throwing...
Nigerian shot dead, 32 arrested in market riot in Poland
Street vendors are detained by police at a popular open-air market in Warsaw after throwing stones and metal objects at custom authorities in reaction to the killing of one of their colleagues. A 36 year old Nigerian was fataly shot after trying to flee from a routine police inspection.
A Nigerian was shot dead in Warsaw on Sunday after a struggle with police who chased him through a crowded open-air...
Schwarzenegger to Obama: Bailout CA or People will riot!
So, after years of deficit spending and paying HUGE welfare bonuses, in addition to paying for health care, education and social services for illegals, California is beyond broke. They’ve been running a budget deficit for many years and CA is on the verge of a total collapse of Government. Arnold issues a threat to Obama saying “Bailout CA or I will end cash welfare and people will riot...
Stupid Behavior After Haiti Earthquake - Shocking Photo Gallery
American mass media is guilty for brainwashing Americans into believing that there is just a race, “the human race”, but the truth is that we are the human species or scientifically said, “the Homo Sapiens species”. Our species contains races just as all EARTHLY SPECIES contain races. A race can be renamed: Breed, Variation, Sub-Category, or whatever you want but in the end...
Pope Benedict XVI protects the riots in Italy and asks residents to respect migrants
At least three dozen people have been injured in the riots between migrant workers and residents of the Italian town of Rosarno
Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the riots that have torn southern Italy over the last few days, and called for residents in the Calabrian town of Rosarno to recognise that migrant workers have equal rights.
‘Let there never be violence in the name of God,’ he said,...
Anarchists Riot in Greece
Greek protestors aren’t giving in.
It’s the fifth day of violence since a teenage boy was shot dead by police.
This time protestors marched on parliament as two unions staged a general strike against the country’s economic policy.
[Greek Protestor]:
“I feel rage about what we are seeing now and who knows what will come. They don’t understand what is going on, they’re...
The U.S. Role in Haiti’s Food Riots
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
The Economist, which calls the current crisis the silent tsunami, reports that last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16%, but since January rice prices...