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BBC News
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More than 100 monks have marched in central Burma, the first time they have returned to the streets since last month's bloody crackdown on protests.
The monks chanted and prayed as they marched through Pakokku, the site of an incident last month that t..
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CNN
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Myanmar's security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday. A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Forei..
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Washington Post
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Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to u..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of two Shia holy cities in Iraq today and protested against "US occupiers".
The rally was called by Mr Sadr, who said in a statement yesterday that his m..
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SF Gate
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In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers.
The government welcomed the move, which followed i..
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BBC News
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Thousands of heavily armed soldiers are patrolling the streets of Burma's main city, Rangoon, with no sign of further protests against the military junta.
Troops are stopping young men on the streets and in cars, searching for cameras that may be used..
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Al Jazeera
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Myanmar's state-run media has said that at least nine people were killed during protests on the streets of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday.
Al Jazeera exclusive from inside Myanmar
However, activists on the ground in Myanmar, formerly know..
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Washington Post
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Every day, Taj Mohammed Abbasi wheels his cart through dusty streets, selling the oranges, guavas and litchis that are the pride of this rural outpost in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills.
But what he's seen recently on television motivated him thi..
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Al Jazeera
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The bodies of eight fighters from Fatah al-Islam are still on the streets on the northern side of the camp", Abu Imad Halwani, an official of Fatah, the movement of the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said from inside Nahr al-Bared.Al Jazeera's corre..
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Al Jazeera
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Streets of terror'
The judge later abandoned plans to address supporters in view of the violence in Karachi.
Another 100 people were wounded in the violence in Karachi.
Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Karachi, said he had heard "sporad..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Somali insurgents dragged the bodies of several soldiers through Mogadishu's streets yesterday before setting them alight during battles with government and Ethiopian troops.
At least 13 people were killed during the fighting, which began when troops a..
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FOX News
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Insurgents dragged the corpses of two soldiers through the streets of the Somali capital and set the bodies on fire Wednesday after a fierce street battle killed at least seven people, witnesses and medical officials said.
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CNN
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Somali insurgents dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets of Mogadishu before burning them on Wednesday in heavy fighting that killed at least 16 people and injured scores more, witnesses said.
The corpses of five soldiers -- either from the Somal..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The fatal shooting of a senior gangster in Tokyo has sparked fears of an all-out turf war between two of Japan's fiercest underworld organisations...
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Spiegel.de
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Much of Lebanon is in mourning a day after gunmen assassinated a government minister on the streets of Beirut. With accusations flying, the country braces for more violence...
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