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USA Today
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Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered police with rocks and beer bottles Saturday, before the heavily armored officers drove them back with water cannon and tear gas during a rally against an upcoming Group of Eight summit..
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BBC News
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Pro-family groups are holding a rally in the Italian capital, Rome, to protest against legislation giving more rights to homosexual couples.
Organisers of the "Family Day" expect at least 100,000 to attend the rally, backed by the Roman Catholic Church..
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ABC News
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More than 20,000 supporters of an Islamic alliance rallied Sunday, demanding the government withdraw changes to a controversial rape statute that they say go against Islam...
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called for a new presidential election to settle a disputed vote that has sparked days of deadly riots, while protesters gathered on street corners in the capital's slums to prepare for a rally on Friday. Anyang Nyongo, Secret..
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called off Thursday's banned public rally and urged its supporters to go home, but hopes to stage another one next week. Supporters and leaders of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement had been blocked from getting to the..
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Al Jazeera
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He said: "There is no decision to ban rallies by Fatah or others. Today's rally was stopped because organisers refused to seek permission."
Hamas has closed a pro-Fatah public television and radio station and a news agency, and controls all electron..
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BBC News
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Protesters have clashed with police at a largely peaceful anti-globalisation rally in the German city of Rostock.
Rocks, bottles and sticks were thrown at riot police, who used tear gas and batons to try to disperse the crowd.
A police spokeswoman d..
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CNN
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Pro-junta thugs in Myanmar clashed Sunday with hundreds of supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hurling abuse and preventing them from marching to a prayer vigil for the detained Nobel laureate, witnesses said.
Holding photos of the 61-..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Faith leaders including Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops will join MPs and trade union leaders today in calling on the government to regularise the position of an estimated 500,000 illegal migrants living in Britain.
The Trafalgar Square rally, orga..
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BBC News
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Thousands of demonstrators have marched in the Polish capital, Warsaw, calling for a total ban on abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
The 3,000 people joining the rally said it should not even be offered when the pregnancy threatens the mother's..
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