• Kimani Gray death: Protesters clash with police at rally for teen shot by NYPD

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    Demonstrator Fatimah Shakur speaks during a vigil held for Kimani "Kiki" Gray in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on March 13, 2013, in New York. The 16-year-old was shot to death on a Brooklyn street last Saturday night by plainclothes police officers who claim the youth pointed a .38-caliber revolver at them.

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    Demonstrators march through the streets alongside police officers during a march following a vigil held for Kimani Gray on March 13, 2013.

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    Memorial candles stand beside a picture of Kimani Gray during a vigil for the deceased teen on March 13, 2013.

    The Associated Press reports — More than 100 people attended a candlelight vigil in Brooklyn Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani "Kiki" Gray just blocks from where he was shot to death by police Saturday night.

    But anger was palpable as a group of young people heckled police officers in helmets and later marched down a street.

    The vigil's organizers tried and failed to calm the young people, some of whom later threw bottles at police officers.

    "I'm not going to tell people don't be angry because we're all angry," said Franclot Graham, whose teenage son, Ramarley Graham, was shot and killed after police chased him into his Bronx home last year. Read the full story.

    NBC New York: 18 arrested on 3rd day of protests for Brooklyn teen slain by police

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    Demonstrators face-off against police during a protest against the shooting of Kimani Gray on March 13, 2013.

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    Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a march after a vigil held for Kimani Gray on March 13, 2013.

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  • Egyptian court ruling in soccer riot deaths inflames protests

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    An injured security official is carried from a police officers club in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek, after protesters set fires following a court verdict in Cairo, March 9. Fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt's soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club, and set them ablaze after a court acquitted seven of nine police official on trial for their alleged part in deadly stadium melee.

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    Egyptian men try to extinguish a fire in a building in the Police Club compound in Cairo, March 9.

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    Policemen try to extinguish fire at a police club set by protesters following a court verdict in Cairo, March 9.

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    Supporters of the 'Al Ahly' soccer club celebrate after an Egyptian court confirmed verdicts in the Port Said soccer match riots, at the Al-Ahly football club in Cairo, March 9.

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    Smoke and fire rises from the Egyptian Soccer Federation after protesters set fire following a court verdict in, Cairo, March 9. An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in the violence. Suspected fans enraged by the verdict torched the soccer federation headquarters and a police club in Cairo in protest.

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    Egyptian security forces keep watch as protesters burn tires in Port Said, Egypt, March9. Twenty-one people sentenced to death for their role in the fatal 2012 football riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said had their sentences confirmed, sparking riots in Port Said and Cairo.

    Mohammed Abu Zaid / AP

    Protesters evacuate a wounded protester from the scene of clashes in downtown Cairo, March 9. Security officials say a protester has died during clashes between police and hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in central Cairo. The officials say the protester died Saturday on a Nile-side road where clashes have been taking place daily between anti-government protesters and police near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies.

    By Yousri Mohamed and Marwa Awad, Reuters

    Egyptian protesters torched buildings in Cairo and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt international shipping on the Suez Canal, as a court ruling on a deadly soccer riot stoked rage in a country beset by worsening security.

    The ruling enraged residents of Port Said, at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal, by confirming death sentences imposed on 21 local soccer fans for their role in the riot last year when more than 70 people were killed.

    But the court also angered rival fans in Cairo by acquitting a further 28 defendants that they wanted punished, including seven members of the police force which is reviled across society for its brutality under deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Full story

     

  • French Goodyear workers make a last ditch effort to save their jobs

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    Protesting Goodyear workers chant slogans in front of the company's French headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison on March 7, 2013. Goodyear announced in January 2013 that it would close a factory in Amiens, northern France that employs 1,250 people by the end of 2014.

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    French CRS riot police stand guard in front of tire maker Goodyear Dunlop France headquarters during a demonstration against job cuts in Rueil Malmaison, March 7, 2013.

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    Protestors scuffle with French CRS riot police in front of Goodyear Dunlop France headquarters during a demonstration against job cuts in Rueil Malmaison, France, March 7, 2013.

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    Goodyear employees scuffle with riot policemen during a demonstration against layoffs in front of Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, west of Paris, March 7, 2013.

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    A protesting Goodyear France worker faces riot police in the western Paris suburb of Rueil-Malmaison on March 7, 2013 during a board meeting.

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    Riot policemen protect themselves during a demonstration Goodyear employees, at the Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, March 7, 2013.

    AP reports: Burning the very fruit of their labor, workers from Goodyear clashed with police outside the tire-maker's French headquarters Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs.

    Goodyear has been trying to restructure or close its plant in northern France for five years in the face of a shrinking European car market. The workers say Goodyear wants to shift the work to China, where tires can be made more cheaply and which is closer to booming markets. Full story

    Riot police and demonstrators protesting the planned closure of a Gooodyear factory in France clashed outside the company's French headquarters. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

  • Protesters block removal of historic Berlin Wall for condo project

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    With chants of "Fill the gap!" protesters attempt to bring forward a styrofoam replica of a piece of the Berlin Wall in order to fill a gap created by construction workers in the East Side Gallery, which is the longest still-standing portion of the former Berlin Wall, as police try to block the protesters on March 1, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

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    Protestors are gathering in front of a part of the former Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, on March 1, 2013.

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    People protest against the removal of a segment of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

    Hundreds of angry protesters on Friday prevented construction workers from removing a section of one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall, part of a plan to build a road to a new luxury condominium being built on the banks of the reunited city's Spree river.

    Crews only managed to remove one section from the famous East Side Gallery before about 300 protesters pressed too close for work to continue. Demonstrators then wheeled in a mock wall section they had set up in front of the gap.

    The East Side Gallery is the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall and is one of the German capital's most popular tourist attractions. It was recently restored at a cost of more than €2 million ($3 million) to the city.

    Continue reading.

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    Police keep watch as workers remove a piece of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

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    Police carry away a protester's styrofoam copy of a segment of the Berlin Wall at a demonstration against the removal of several segments of the original former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

     

  • Bahrain protesters demand release of comrade's body

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    A woman runs for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes with protesters, who tried to reach Salmaniya hospital to get the dead body of Mahmud al-Jaziri, on Feb. 25, 2013 in the village of Zinj, a suburb of Manama, Bahrain.

    Hasan Jamali / AP

    Bahraini boys look at an anti-government protester, unseen, as he adds fuel to old furniture being set on fire in a street in Malkiya on Feb. 26, 2013.

    Protests were held in opposition-heavy villages across Bahrain on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that the government release the body of a 20-year-old who died last week from injuries sustained during earlier clashes with police.

    Mahmud al-Jaziri succumbed to his wounds after he was shot during demonstrations commemorating the second anniversary of the Gulf kingdom’s 2011 uprising.

    The protesters are calling for al-Jaziri's body to be released for burial.

    Editor's note: The Bahraini government disputes the demonstrators' claims, and says the body was released on Feb. 22.

    -- Reporting from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse

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  • Teenager killed as Bahrain marks uprising anniversary

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    Protesters set a junked car on fire in Qadam village, north of the Bahraini capital Manama, on Feb. 14, 2013, the second anniversary of the start of a pro-democracy uprising in the Gulf island kingdom.

    Hasan Jamali / AP

    Wounded anti-government protesters are treated at a house after being shot with pellets fired by riot police during clashes in Daih on Feb. 14, 2013. Protests began at daybreak in opposition areas nationwide as protesters attempted to return to the well-barricaded main site of the uprising.

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    A protester gestures toward riot police during clashes in Daih on Feb. 14, 2013.

    Reuters reports — A Bahraini teenager was killed by security forces on Thursday, an opposition website reported, as activists demonstrated on the second anniversary of an uprising demanding democratic reforms in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.

    The protests could mar reconciliation talks that began on Sunday between mostly Shiite Muslim opposition groups and the Sunni-dominated government to try to end two years of political deadlock in the island kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

    Mass protests that erupted in the island state in February 2011 at the height of the Arab Spring were crushed, but small demonstrations continue on an almost daily basis demanding greater rights for Bahrain's Shiite majority and an end to the absolute power of the Sunni ruling family.

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    Protesters march in Barbar village, north of Manama, on Feb. 14, 2013.

    The website of the main opposition group Wefaq said a young man identified as Ali Ahmed Ibrahim al-Jazeeri had died in the village of Diya near Manama in an area mostly inhabited by Shiites. It said Jazeeri, born in 1996, had been shot by security forces using exploding bullets, banned internationally.

    Dozens of people were also hurt in the violence, some by tear gas and other more seriously, it said.

    The government's information department said a 16-year-old boy had been brought to the Salmaniya Medical Complex in the capital Manama and had been pronounced dead on arrival.

    "The cause of death is as yet unknown. The case has been referred to the public prosecution and a thorough investigation is being conducted," it said in a statement, urging people to remain calm and "not to spread unfounded rumors". Read the full story.

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    Protesters clash with police in Daih on Feb. 14, 2013.

  • Exiled Tibetans mark 100th self-immolation with candle light vigil

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    Exiled Tibetans take part in a candlelight vigil following the self-immolation attempt by a monk earlier in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 13.

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    Tibetans-in-exhile attend a candlelit vigil after a Tibetan man self-immolated at Boudhanath in Kathmandu on Feb. 13.

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    An Exiled Tibetan participates in a candle light vigil in solidarity with fellow Tibetans who have self-immolated, in Katmandu, Feb. 13.

    Exiled Tibetans in Kathmandu, Nepal, participated in a candle light vigil Wednesday to show solidarity with fellow Tibetans who have self-immolated as a protest against Chinese rule. Earlier in the day, a monk doused himself with gasoline in a Kathmandu restaurant at Boudhanath Stupa, one of the world's holiest Buddhist shrines, and set himself on fire, marking the 100th self-immolation attempt since 2009.

  • Protester wears message of defiance in Bahrain

    Hasan Jamali / AP

    Bahraini anti-government protesters participate in a rally in Sitra, Bahrain, on Feb. 13. Clashes erupted in several opposition villages around the kingdom on the eve of the second anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.

  • Scuffles force Georgian president to find new speech venue

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    Protesters scuffle outside the National Library in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Feb. 8, 2013.

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    Anti-Saakashvili protesters scuffle with opponents outside the National Library where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was to give his last state-of-nation address in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Feb. 8.

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    Protesters scuffle outside the National Library in Tbilisi, Georgia on Feb. 8.

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    Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili delivers a speech at his residence in Tbilisi, where he was forced to make his speech.

    By Margarita Antidze, Reuters

    Hundreds of protesters who accuse Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of flouting human rights and stifling dissent forced him to change the venue of his annual address to the nation on Friday.

    Political tensions have engulfed Georgia since Saakashvili's party lost parliamentary elections in October to a group led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. Now prime minister, Ivanishvili is experiencing a difficult cohabitation with the president.

    Scuffles broke out as protesters barred officials from Saakashvili's party entering Georgia's National Library, the venue for the speech that was due later in the day. Continue reading.

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    A woman looks out of a window as protesters gather outside the National Library in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Feb. 8.

  • Mourning amid teargas: Funeral turns into violent confrontation with Tunisian police

    Anis Mili / Reuters

    Soldiers help mourners carry the coffin of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid during his funeral procession towards the nearby cemetery of El-Jellaz, where he is to be buried, in the Jebel Jelloud district of Tunis, on Feb. 8. Tens of thousands of mourners chanted anti-Islamist slogans on Friday at the Tunis funeral of secular opposition leader Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.

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    A couple mourns next to a Tunisian flag during the funeral procession for the late secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in the Jebel Jelloud district in Tunis, on Feb. 8.

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    Thousands of Tunisians are gathered at el Jallez cemetery to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, on Feb. 8. The Feb. 6 assassination of prominent government critic Chokri Belaid plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011. The coffin is carried by pallbearers at center of picture.

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    Tunisian women protects their faces from teargas while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    By Tarek Amara and Alistair Lyon, Reuters

    Published 12:20pm ET: TUNIS, Tunisia -- Police and mourners clashed at the mass funeral on Friday of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.

    Braving chilly rain, at least 50,000 people turned out to honor Belaid in his home district of Jebel al-Jaloud in the capital, chanting anti-Islamist and anti-government slogans.

    It was Tunisia's biggest funeral since the death of Habib Bourguiba, independence leader and first president, in 2000.

    Violence erupted near the cemetery as police fired teargas at demonstrators who threw stones and set cars ablaze. Police also used teargas against protesters near the Interior Ministry, a frequent flashpoint for clashes in the Tunisian capital.

    Continue reading.

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    Tunisians cover their faces as they stand at Jellaz cemetery amid teargas fired by police during the funeral of slain opposition politician Chokri Belaid, in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb 8. Media reports state that Tunisian police fired tear gas outside the cemetery in the capital Tunis where thousands of people had gathered for the funeral of opposition leader Chokri Belaid. Belaid was shot dead by an unknown attacker outside his home on Feb. 6.

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    A protester flees from teargas fired by riot police during clashes with riot police near the cemetery where slain Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid is buried on Feb. 8.

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    Protestors burn cars next to the cemetery where thousands of Tunisians are gathered to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

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    Thousands of Tunisians attend the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8. The Feb. 6 assassination of prominent government critic Chokri Belaid plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011.

    Amine Landoulsi / AP

    A tunisian woman wrapped in her national flag makes her way through tombs while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    Police and mourners clashed at the funeral of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

     

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    Protesters disrupt the start of a confirmation hearing for John Brennan before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Feb. 7, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

    Protesters disrupt Brennan's CIA confirmation hearing

    Published at 6:05 p.m. ET

    By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News: At his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, defended Obama’s policy of targeted killings of terrorists, saying that some Americans had a misimpression that “we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressions. Nothing could be further from the truth. We only take such action as a last resort to save lives when there’s no other alternative” to avert a threat to the nation.

    Alluding to some raucous protesters who had interrupted and delayed the hearing earlier, Brennan said, “They really have a misunderstanding of what we do as a government, and the care that we take, and the agony that we go through” to ensure that innocent bystanders or civilians aren’t hit in targeted killings. “People are reacting to a lot of falsehoods that are out there.” Read the full story.


  • Desperate Greeks scuffle at free food handout

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    People reach out for a bag of oranges during a free distribution of fruit and vegetables by Greek farmers outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens, part of a farmers' protest against high production costs on Feb. 6, 2013.

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    Athens residents reach out to take fruit and vegetables distributed for free by farmers.

    Reuters reports — Hundreds of Greeks scuffled for free vegetables handed out by farmers on Wednesday, leaving one man trampled and injured, and prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis.

    Startling images of Greeks struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck dominated Greek television, triggering a bout of soul-searching over the new depths of poverty in the debt-laden country.

    "These images make me angry. Angry for a proud people who have no food to eat, who can't afford to keep warm, who can't make ends meet," said Kostas Barkas, a lawmaker from the leftist Syriza party. Read the full story.

     

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