Protests against the results of a presidential election, which have the look of a grassroots revolution, turn out to be a muddled chapter from the post-Soviet playbook.

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Demonstrators set part of the building ablaze after tens of thousands of people rallied against Kosovo's independence in the Serbian capital.

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Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, was on fire again on Monday as the police and military struggled to stop a wave of revenge killings.

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Deadly clashes erupted Sunday in Beirut, leaving at least seven people dead and escalating Lebanon's most serious political crisis since its civil war ended in 1990.

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The American ambassador to Kenya said that his worry about the post-election crisis was the possible rift among the country's opposing politicians.

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In Kisumu, a large Kenyan city and an opposition stronghold, the police faced off with angry protesters and arrested several journalists they accused of fanning the flames of the unrest.

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In Kenya's third largest city, furious mobs hurled stones at police officers, who charged and fired their guns.

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Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a speech at the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome amid opposition by professors and students who say he is hostile to science.

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Kenya was in partial lockdown mode as opposition supporters pressed on with plans for nationwide protests.

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Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a speech at the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome amid opposition by professors and students who say he is hostile to science.

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With no signs of a breakthrough in the country's political crisis, the call for protests heightens the standoff with the government.

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An explosion, apparently detonated by a suicide attacker, was aimed at police officers protecting a rally in Lahore.

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Hundreds of thousands joined a chaotic funeral procession as the former prime minister was buried in her ancestral village.

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When the New Zealand police force said they were open to suggestions about how to rewrite national policing laws, they meant it.

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The reaction against the wealth created by private equity funds has become part of a populist movement.

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A chilling new factor makes the recent violence in France more menacing: the rioters have taken up hunting shotguns and turned them on the police.

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A chilling new factor makes the recent violence in France more menacing: the rioters have taken up hunting shotguns and turned them on the police.

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Police union officials said that a Paris suburb saw more intense violence last night than during the riots of 2005.

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The Italian authorities decided Monday to ban soccer fan clubs who are known to be violent from traveling to out-of-town games and imposed stricter security measures in larger stadiums.

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The Pakistani police blocked the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from visiting the home of the ousted chief justice.

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Police blanketed the protest site and barricaded the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, in her house in Islamabad before allowing her to leave this evening.

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The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf faced the first signs of concerted resistance to the imposition of emergency rule.

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While Gen. Pervez Musharraf justified his emergency rule decree as helping him combat terrorism, it could end up weakening his ability and generating instability.

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A report said that poor training and a variety of errors by police commanders led officers to turn on demonstrators and journalists at a pro-immigration rally in Los Angeles in May.

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A special envoy arrived in Myanmar, carrying a message from a world that has watched with alarm the violent suppression of peaceful nationwide protests.

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