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As Unrest Continues, Tunisia Plans Unity Government

Army, presidential guard in gun battle

(Newser) - Tunisian leaders plan to announce a new unity government today following the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Daily Telegraph reports. It will include ministers from the former leadership and opposition as well as independents, said an opposition leader. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi will remain, with presidential...

Tunisian President Dissolves Government Amid Riots

12 killed in protests last night

(Newser) - Amid huge riots over poverty, Tunisia’s president has decided to dismiss his government, the AP reports. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali intends to call legislative elections in 6 months, earlier than planned. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters calling for Ben Ali’s resignation continued to demonstrate in the capital,...

Amid Deadly Riots, Tunisian President Says He'll Leave

... but not until 2014

(Newser) - Tunisia's autocratic president, struggling to contain deadly riots that have destabilized his authority, made sweeping pledges for political and media freedom and said he will leave the presidency—but not until his term ends in 2014. Facing the worst unrest in his 23 years in power, an unusually contrite President...

Army Tries to Quell Tunisia Poverty Riots

Witnesses report snipers shooting at protesters

(Newser) - Tunisia’s army rolled through the streets of Tunis today, hoping to quell a string of sometimes violent protests over the country’s rampant poverty and unemployment. So far 21 people have been killed in the riots, which began three weeks ago when a young unemployed man set himself on...

Westboro Church Won't Protest 9-Year-Old's Funeral, But...

...It will protest Judge John Roll's

(Newser) - Don’t look now, but the Westboro Baptist Church is displaying one tiny, itty-bitty modicum of decency! The church has announced that, in a saintly show of restraint, it will abandon plans to picket the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed in Saturday’s Tucson massacre. Of...

PETA's Weirdest Stunts of the Year
PETA's Weirdest
Stunts of the Year
Dec 31, 2010 12:39 PM CST

PETA's Weirdest Stunts of the Year

From chicken costumes to fake blood, it was another vocal year

(Newser) - PETA’s not into subtlety when it comes to demonstrations against animal cruelty. AOL News offers some highlights from the past year:
  • A barely-dressed couple frolicked on an outdoor bed in Nashville to assert that vegans were better lovers.
  • The group’s London branch called on a team of pregnant
...

Balcony Jumper Interrupts Romanian Parliament

While wearing a T-shirt reading: 'You killed our children's future'

(Newser) - One way to register your disgust with government: Jump off a balcony and into the middle of parliament. That's what Adrian Sobaru did in Romania today. The father of two, a public television employee, suffered face wounds after he flung himself from the balcony, apparently in protest over government austerity...

Riots Erupt in Rome After Berlusconi Victory

Ninety people injured in violent confrontations

(Newser) - Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Rome today after Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived a no-confidence vote, causing havoc that resulted in injuries to 50 police officers and 40 protesters. Demonstrators set fire to cars, upended garbage bins, and threw rocks, signaling the public's growing disdain for their scandal-plagued...

UK Police Caught Dragging Protester From Wheelchair

Jody McIntyre says he was '100% not a threat to anyone'

(Newser) - British police have promised to launch an investigation after video surfaced of police officers apparently pulling a man with cerebral palsy from his wheelchair and dragging him across the street during Thursday’s student protests . The victim, 20-year-old Jody McIntyre, tells the Daily Telegraph that police actually pulled him from...

Westboro Church to Protest at Elizabeth Edwards' Funeral

You stay classy, Fred Phelps

(Newser) - America’s least-favorite protest group is at it again. The Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards, it announced today on its website, the charmingly named godhatesfags.com. The church didn’t elaborate on Edwards' specific transgression, but given that its ultraconservative congregation usually gets its jollies...

Election Results In, Haiti Erupts in Violence

Protesters angry their man didn't make the run-off

(Newser) - Violent protests erupted in Haiti this morning following last night's announcement that the presidential election is headed for a January run-off vote—without Michel Martelly's name on the ballot, Reuters reports. Supporters of the popular musician took to the streets in a show of anger after he was narrowly eliminated...

Protests Rage on in Rome, London

Not a good day to be a tourist in Europe...

(Newser) - Now is not the time to be embarking on your dream trip to Italy ... or England. Both countries are weathering yet another day of student protests. In Rome, police vans and rows of riot-gear-clad officers barricaded access to the city's historic center in an attempt to keep students away from...

Angry Haitians Protest Vote
 Angry Haitians Protest Vote 
Nov 29, 2010 7:20 AM CST

Angry Haitians Protest Vote

Candidates call for cancellation, cite 'massive fraud'

(Newser) - As protesters hit the streets, presidential candidates in Haiti banded together yesterday to demand the election be canceled, citing foul play, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Twelve of the 19 candidates are accusing the outgoing president’s party of “massive fraud.” Protesters—some peaceful, some throwing stones—marched...

Students Take Over Tower of Pisa

Protesters also jump turnstiles, enter Colosseum, hang banner

(Newser) - On the heels of yesterday's protests in London, thousands of Italian students took their complaints about education cuts to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum—among other places—today, clogging roads and railways in the process. At the tower, about 20 students managed to breach security and unfurl...

Tens of Thousands of UK Students Protest Fee Hike

It's the second mass demonstration in two weeks

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of UK students again took to the streets of London to protest planned higher fees coupled with education cuts. It's the second mass demonstration in recent weeks. The only major violence was reported in Trafalgar Square, where a crowd smashed windows of shops, buses, and an unattended...

Aussie Asylum Seekers Sew Lips Together

It 'won't help their cases,' says minister

(Newser) - Ten asylum seekers in Australia have sewn their lips together to protest an excruciatingly long process to obtain refugee status. The men are refusing medical treatment, but are able to drink sugared water. Officials have warned that the action won't help their cases. "This is distressing for me and...

German Nuclear Protests Turn Violent
 Nuclear Protests Turn Violent 
Nov 8, 2010 5:45 AM CST

Nuclear Protests Turn Violent

Demonstrators against nuclear power attack police, face water cannon

(Newser) - Protesters railing against the use and storage of nuclear materials in Germany became violent yesterday, lashing out against police with sticks and pepper spray, CNN reports. Police responded with mounted officers and water cannon. Anger was prompted by a train carrying nuclear waste to Germany from France for storage. The...

Gays Hold 'Kiss-In' to Protest Pope

Pope bashes Spain's gay marriage, abortion and divorce laws on Barcelona trip

(Newser) - Pope Benedict strongly defended traditional families and the rights of the unborn today, attacking Spanish laws that allow gay marriage, fast-track divorce, and easier abortions as he dedicated Barcelona's iconic basilica, the Sagrada Familia. Families, the pope argued, are built on the "indissoluble love of a man and a...

China Snatches Woman in Middle of Night Over Tweet

She tweeted that she planned to march in support of Nobel winner Liu Xiabo

(Newser) - A young Chinese woman who tweeted that she planned to march with a banner honoring imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabo has been busted by police. Mou Yanxi was snatched from her house in the middle of the night as authorities stepped up a crackdown on Liu's friends and...

French Cops Force Open Blockaded Fuel Depot

Workers have been camped at site for 10 days

(Newser) - French riot police forced open a strategic fuel refinery today that had been a bastion of resistance to President Sarkozy's bid to raise the retirement age to 62, pushing striking workers aside with shields in a bid to end gasoline shortages. The operation came as the French Senate prepared to...

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