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NYC protest gets heated when Yemen leader is seen

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:25pm

NEW YORK — A protest of the embattled president of Yemen outside the New York hotel where he’s staying got heated when demonstrators saw him leave the building.

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(The Associated Press) In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, an anti-Syrian regime protester, holds a poster with caricature depicting the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 2nd left, pumping up their ally Syrian President Bashar Assad, centre, as she walks during a demonstration in Idlib Province, north Syria. Russia’s deputy defense minister says Moscow will not stop arms sales to Syria. Russian state news agencies quoted Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Thursday as saying Russia is not violating any international obligations. Arabic on the poster reads, “free people of occupied Kfarnebel.”

Syrian activists: 200 dead in government assault

Zeina Karam The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:46pm

BEIRUT — In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday.

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'Nurse-in' staged at Layton Target

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 12:12am

LAYTON — A group of protesters decided to raise awareness Wednesday about the acceptability of breastfeeding at the Layton Super Target.

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(BECK DIEFENBACH/The Associated Press) A container ship leaves the Port of Oakland after protestors closed several entrances to the port, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.

Protesters halt operations at some Western ports

Marcus Wohlsen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 8:55am

OAKLAND, Calif. — Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they’re hurting wage earners.

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Metalworkers march through downtown Turin, Italy, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Union leaders in Italy are calling on workers to stage a three-hour strike to protest austerity measures that Premier Mario Monti hopes will save the country from financial ruin. The union leaders say the measures hit too hard at pensioners and workers and not hard enough at the wealthy (AP Photo/Fabio Ferrari, Lapresse)

Italian markets nervous as unions strike over cuts

Colleen Barry, Frances D’emilio The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 8:52am

ROME — Italian financial market jitters worsened on Monday, as workers angry about government austerity reforms went on strike and held nationwide rallies while investors turned skeptical about an EU pact to save the euro.

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(JACQUELYN MARTIN/The Associated Press) In this photo taken Sept. 14, 2011, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bevington, requirements officer with the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, demonstrates one of the military’s latest voice projection system and instant translation technologies, that can project a human voice a mile away and instantly translate from English to another language, at the Marine Base in Quantico Va.

Protests boost sales and fears of sonic blaster

David Dishneau The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 8:46am

QUANTICO, Va. — Police deployment of sonic blasters at Occupy Wall Street and G-20 protest rallies is fueling both sales and criticism of the devices, which emit beams of sound with laser-like intensity.

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Bear hunt brings out protesters

Joel Schectman The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 9:48am

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- New Jersey has agreed to permit more bear-hunt opponents at one of its key check-in sites for a planned protest Saturday and allow a member of the group to photograph a carcass as it's weighed.

The settlement came as the parties appeared Thursday before a state Supreme Court justice as part of an appeal by the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Judge Barry Albin encouraged the two sides to hash out a deal instead of moving forward with the process, an attorney for the animal rights group said.

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(VAHID SALEMI/The Associated Press) Iranian cleric lawmakers talk in an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to reduce Tehran’s diplomatic relations with London and withdraw the country’s ambassador to Britain.

Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran

Nasser Karimi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:28am

TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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(ABDEL MAGID AL-FERGANY/The Associated Press) Libyan women gather in Tripoli, Libya to pressure the new government to do more to help women raped during the country’s civil war, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Some 60 women sang and chanted slogans outside the office of Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib on Saturday. They said the government, in its focus to help wounded soldiers, is failing to help women sexually assaulted by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces during the war.

Ethnic group demands say in new Libyan government

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 5:12pm

TRIPOLI, Libya — Hundreds of people pushed their way to the door of the Libyan prime minister’s office on Sunday as they demanded representation in government for the Amazigh, one of the country’s largest ethnic minorities.

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(AXEL HEIMKEN/The Associated Press) A police officer uses pepper spray during clashes with demonstrators near railway tracks used by a train transporting nuclear waste in Pommoissel, northern Germany, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Police used water cannons to disperse about 300 protesters hurling rocks and fireworks during an attempt to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste in northern Germany on Saturday, officials said.

German police, demonstrators clash at nuke protest

Juergen Baetz The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 6:23pm

BERLIN — Police used water cannons to disperse about 300 protesters hurling rocks and fireworks during an attempt to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste in northern Germany on Saturday, officials said.

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Is the occupation all for naught? WSU professors think so

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 9:52am

OGDEN -- As controversy builds over the actions of Occupy protesters and police working to control them throughout the country, some have voiced doubt about whether protesters' actions will create social change.

"This message is not bad, it's just not how to change society," said Huiying Wei-Arthus, Weber State University professor of sociology, who is teaching a course this semester on social movement and social change.

"This issue is very emotional," she said. "Their intent is very well-stated."

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(WAYNE TILCOCK/The Associated Press) University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad Friday in Davis, Calif. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters were placed on administrative leave Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident.

Univ. of Calif., Davis police chief now on leave

Jason Dearen The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 10:50am

SAN FRANCISCO — The president of the University of California system said he was “appalled” at images of protesters being doused with pepper spray and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses, as two police officers and the police chief were placed on administrative leave.

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(THOMAS K. FOWLER/The Associated Press) In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students.

UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video

Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 6:02pm

SAN FRANCISCO — “Chilling” video images surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.

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(WILFREDO LEE/The Associated Press) Students listen to Ron Cox, associate professor for the Dept. of Political Science and director of Graduate Studies during an Occupy FIU Teach-In, on the Florida International University campus in Miami. The teach-in at FIU and dozens of other campuses across the country were held in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. As the protests have grown to cities across the United States, they’ve also taken root at the nation’s universities, where students have staged rallies and walk-outs from classes.

Occupy protests spread to US college campuses

Christine Armario The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 5:44pm

MIAMI — Mo Tarafa stood before students at a small, outdoor concrete auditorium at Florida International University and called for volunteers to sit in the 10 chairs before her. Each chair, she said, represented 10 percent of the wealth in the United States and 10 percent of the population.

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