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Protesters clash with police in Venezuelan capital
Protesters demonstrating against the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have clashed with police in the capital, Caracas.
Demonstrators, many of them hooded, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police officers and clogged up streets in busy areas of the city with makeshift barricades on Saturday.
In response, police used tear gas and riot vehicles to disperse the angry mob.
President...
Dozens dead, hundreds injured in Egypt violent clashes between protesters
Egypt’s health ministry has said that at least 17 people were killed and over 200 injured in clashes between pro and anti-Morsi protesters on Friday. The most violent are at the 6th October bridge near Tahrir, amid reports of gunfire and Molotov cocktails.
The unrest has rocked some eight areas of Cairo, with Alexandria and approximately six other provinces as street battles have erupted between...
Turkish police use water cannons, tear gas to oust protesters from Taksim Square
Hundreds of Turkish police are fending off protesters after taking over Taksim Square in Istanbul. Violent clashes are happening in the surrounding streets, which the RT crew on site describes as ‘a real meat grinder’.
Hundreds of security troops have arrived at the scene early morning. The square itself was mostly empty of protesters at the time.
The few protesters present at the square when...
Riots spread across Jordan over 'vote-rigging'
Protesters shout anti-regime slogans during a demonstration in Jordan’s capital Amman.
Riots have spread across Jordan after the announcement of parliamentary election results which people in four provinces dispute.
Violent clashes erupted on Thursday between police and protestors who accuse Jordan’s Independent Electoral Commission of vote-rigging, DPA reported.
Police fired tear gas to disperse...
Violent clashes erupt in Egyptian capital, at least 231 injured
At least 231 injured after knife-wielding men attack pro-reform protesters marching to defence ministry in Cairo.
More than 231 people have been injured in clashes between groups of armed men and pro-reform protesters marching towards Egypt’s ministry of defence in the capital, Cairo, the country’s health ministry said.
Thousands calling for the “downfall” of the country’s...