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Germany

Dresden holds first PEGIDA protest since founder's 'Adolf Hitler' photo blunder

Thousands of supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) gathered in the German town of Dresden on Sunday for

Japan

ISIL hostage murder: Japan's new foreign policy blamed

Shinzo Abe faces mounting criticism for the apparent killing of a Japanese hostage.

Democratic Republic Of Congo

DRC: Controversial electoral reform bill will be amended, says national assembly chief

Part of an electoral reform bill in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which the opposition says was aimed at keeping President Joseph Kabila in

Italy

Police and protesters clash during anti far-right march in Italian town

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters marching against far-right groups in the northern Italian town of Cremona. Some of the

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Protesters call for Maduro to go amid financial crisis

Thousands of anti-government protesters have been marching in Caracas, as anger boils over high inflation and a shortage of basic items. With oil

Yemen

US counter-terrorism campaign 'paralysed' by Yemen turmoil

Democratic Republic Of Congo

DR Congo scraps plans for census after days of violent unrest

Democratic Republic of the Congo has scrapped plans for a national census before next year’s presidential elections. An electoral reform bill that

Turkey

Ten year jail sentence for Turkey policemen over student protester's death

Two Turkish policemen have been jailed for ten years for their part in beating a teenage student to death during anti-government protests in 2013

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Chechnya: Hundreds of thousands march against Charlie Hebdo "immoral" cartoons

Argentina

Death of a prosecutor in Argentina provokes street demonstrations as officials find no evidence of an outside link

A group of protesters held a demonstration outside Argentina’s National Congress to draw attention to what they see as the suspicious death of

Denmark

Danes form their own Pegida movement against islamic extremism

Inspired by the German Pegida movement around two hundred people marched through the Danish capital Copenhagen on Monday. Organised by Pegida

Germany

Merkel embarrassed by Dresden protest ban after threat to Pegida

The German Chancellor and others in the political mainstream have expressed unease after authorities in the eastern city of Dresden banned all gatherings on Monday because of a threat to attack the an

Kenya

Pupil power shames police in Nairobi as Kenyan school protest goes global

A bitter little local dispute over a school playground in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has seen pictures of uniformed schoolchildren being teargassed

World News

Protests against Charlie cartoons continue throughout Muslim world

Orchestrated by the government, which obliged all its employees to attend, Chechens have held a huge demonstration in their capital Grozny to protest

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Thousands rally against Charlie Hebdo in Pakistan

Ukraine

Ukrainians remember 13 killed in Volnovakha

Thousands marched to Independence square in Kyiv on Sunday. “I am Volnovakha” read some of the banners referring to the town where 13 people died

Germany

Pegida weekly protest march in Dresden cancelled after attack threat

The weekly march in the German city of Dresden organised by the organisation PEGIDA – Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West has

Pakistan

Lawyers join anti-Charlie Hebdo protests in Pakistan

About 200 people in Karachi protest against the Charlie Hebdo newspaper

World News

Protest in Vienna after café ejects kissing lesbian couple

A kiss is just not a kiss it seems for some in Austria. More than a thousand people joined a gay rights protest in Vienna on Friday after a lesbian

Pakistan

Anti-Charlie protests turn violent in Niger, Pakistan and Algeria

Hundreds join demos across the Muslim world against Charlie Hebdo cartoons