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- Dolphin hunting protests at Japanese embassy in Britain
- LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy here Wednesday against what they called the country's "appallingly cruel" hunting of dolphins. Campaign groups claim Japan kills 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises for food each year in hunts which receive far less attention than the country's highly...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Protests halt construction of Tata car plant in India
- SINGUR, India AFP — Thousands of Indians staged loud protests Sunday outside a factory being built to produce the world's cheapest car, forcing a halt to construction work at the site, officials said. A team of Japanese experts helping Tata Motors with the production of the 2,500-dollar Nano car...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Bob Ford: LPGA off course in requiring English
- It sure is great to live here in the land of the free, the home of the brave, and the greatest bastion of cultural diversity and tolerance on this fine Earth. Just a few days ago, we extinguished the torch on a two-week smugathon during which we looked down our...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Protesters reject talks to save India's Nano car plant
- KOLKATA, India AFP — Opposition leaders on Monday rejected a fresh offer of talks from the head of India's West Bengal state and vowed to continue protests against a plant where the world's cheapest car is being built. The head of opposition Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee, who launched an...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- Thai protesters seize state TV, surround government buildings
- BANGKOK AFP — Thousands of Thai protesters Tuesday seized a state-run TV station and surrounded government buildings in their campaign to force premier Samak Sundaravej from office and cripple his administration. The People's Alliance for Democracy PAD, which has been demonstrating since May, claim Samak is running Thailand on...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- Palestinian envoy denies Yemen embassy to close
- SANAA AFP — The Palestinian envoy to Yemen on Sunday denied a report by his embassy's own spokesman that the mission was closing in protest at "dual Palestinian representation," an apparent reference to a Hamas office. "The embassy of the state of Palestine in the Republic of Yemen is...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- China deports eight detained Americans: US embassy
- BEIJING AFP — China has deported eight Americans who were detained in Beijing last week after a wave of pro-Tibet protests coinciding with the Olympics, the US embassy here said Monday. "Chinese authorities informed us last night that the eight individuals, detained August 20 and 21 respectively, were deported...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Palestinian embassy in Yemen closes in protest
- SANAA AFP — The Palestinian embassy in Yemen said on Saturday it was closing its mission in Sanaa in protest at what it called "dual Palestinian representation," an apparent reference to an office of Hamas. "We are closing the embassy in protest at the dual Palestinian representation in Yemen,"...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Dalai Lama wraps up contentious visit to France
- PARIS AFP — The Dalai Lama wrapped up on Saturday a visit to France that fuelled tensions between Paris and Beijing and saw four people arrested during a pro-Tibetan protest. The Tibetan spiritual leader left the French capital on a flight bound for New Delhi after a 12-day visit...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- US urges China to release eight Americans
- BEIJING AFP — The United States on Saturday urged China to release immediately eight American nationals detained after pro-Tibet protests in Beijing during the Olympic Games. "We have asked for their immediate release and are continuing to follow their cases closely," embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson told AFP. She...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Four foreigners detained after Olympic Tibet protest: activist group
- BEIJING AFP — China detained four more foreign pro-Tibet campaigners after a protest early Thursday near Beijing's main Olympic venue amid a "dramatic" increase in police surveillance, an activist group said. The four were taken away in a police vehicle after three of them unfurled a Tibetan flag and...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Big stink as Israel unleashes 'skunk' on protestors
- BILIN, West Bank AFP — The Palestinian protestors massed at the fence expected tear gas and rubber bullets; what they got instead was a putrid yellow wind, Israel's newest weapon against West Bank demonstrators. The noxious mist, which Israeli police refer to as "skunk," was used for the first...
- Research articles 2008-08-18
- Phelps flies to record-equalling seventh Beijing gold
- BEIJING AFP — Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh gold medal at the Beijing Games Saturday with a breathtaking victory in the men's 100m butterfly. Phelps, seventh at the turn, snatched victory by one-hundredth of a second over a stunned Milorad Cavic of Serbia. Even Phelps, who clocked...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- Lebanon protesters demand Islamist suspects be freed
- BEIRUT AFP — Relatives of suspected members of an Islamist group that battled the Lebanese army last year staged protests on Friday demanding their release from jail. Hundreds gathered inside Al-Omari mosque in central Beirut after weekly prayers in support of some 300 people arrested after more than three...
- Research articles 2008-08-15
- Child matador bullfight to go ahead in France
- MARSEILLE, France AFP — A banned bullfight involving a 10-year-old child matador will go ahead Thursday in the southern French town of Arles despite protests from anti-corrida campaigners, organisers said. Michelito, a Franco-Mexican who is a bullfighting star in Mexico, is in France to take part in several "becerradas"...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- In shadow of Olympics, Myanmar mourns failed '88 uprising
- BANGKOK AFP — As China celebrates the start of the Olympics on Friday with much fanfare, activists in neighbouring Myanmar will silently mourn the bloody end of an uprising that crushed their dreams of democracy 20 years ago. In August 1988, cities and villages across the country then known...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Bishop to rejoin D.C. energy protest
- Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has one son getting married next Tuesday and another leaving on an LDS mission the day after. So he had planned to take advantage of Congress' August recess to spend the week weeding and preparing his home for expected guests. Instead, he now is...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- US axes captain of nuclear ship bound for Japan
- TOKYO AFP — The US Navy has fired the captain of the first US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be stationed abroad after a fire onboard hurt dozens of sailors and raised alarm in host Japan. The USS George Washington is set to arrive in late September in Yokosuka, a...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- German TV closes Gaza office over Hamas arrest
- JERUSALEM AFP — The German ARD television channel on Wednesday announced it was closing its office in the Gaza Strip in protest at the arrest of its cameraman by Hamas-run security forces last week. Sawah Abu Saif, 42, was among dozens of people arrested on Saturday, a day after...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Thousands at funeral of boy shot in West Bank protest
- NILIN, West Bank AFP — Thousands marched through the occupied West Bank in a funeral Wednesday for a Palestinian boy who was shot dead by Israeli forces during a protest against Israel's separation barrier. "Oh martyr, rest in peace, we shall continue the struggle," the crowd of some 3,000...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
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