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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

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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

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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

World

Charlie Hebdo still alive

Millions of people in the streets of France’s cities to say ‘I am Charlie’. The previous week’s terrorist attacks triggered a surge in national

Pakistan

Pakistan: Violence flares in protest over Charlie Hebdo cartoon

Some 200 protesters have clashed with police outside France’s consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi after a demonstration against

Germany

Tolerance vigil amid anti-Pegida demonstration in Berlin

German political and religious leaders gathered outside the French embassy in Berlin during a march for tolerance

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Anti-Martelly protesters clash with police in Haiti

Mexico

More clashes in Mexico over disappearance of 43 students last year

There have been clashes between demonstrators and police outside military barracks in the Mexican city of Iguala where 43 students disappeared in

Germany

Anti-Islamisation rallies in Dresden and other German cities

Anti-Islamisation rallies attract thousands in Dresden and in other German cities

France

Almost four million turn out for unity rallies across France

Record crowds have turned out in Paris and in other cities across France for unity marches