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Manokwar -
Riots broke out and a local parliament building was torched in Indonesia's restive Papua region on Monday, as thousands protested against the weekend detention of dozens of Papuan students.
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Jakarta -
Four Indonesian officials, including its chief security minister and the president's top intelligence advisor, were targeted in a failed assassination plot that may be linked to deadly riots in Jakarta, police said Tuesday.
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Odessa -
A major riot involving 500 prisoners broke out at a penitentiary in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with the inmates setting fire to buildings and wounding seven staff members, officials said.
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Dushanbe -
At least 32 people were killed in a prison riot in Tajikistan, including 19 members of the Islamic State jihadist group and three guards, authorities said Monday.
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Dushanbe -
A riot at a prison in Tajikistan has left 32 people dead, including 24 members of the Islamic State militant group and three guards, authorities said Monday.
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New Delhi -
A veteran Indian politician was given a life sentence on Monday over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that killed nearly 3,000 people following the assassination of then-premier Indira Gandhi.
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New Delhi -
A violent mob rampaged through villages in northern India on Monday after the discovery of suspected cow carcasses, setting vehicles ablaze and murdering two people including a senior police officer.
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Moscow -
Russian punk group Pussy Riot on Wednesday linked the suspected poisoning of member Pyotr Verzilov with his attempt to investigate the deaths of three Russian journalists in Africa.
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Barquisimeto -
A prison riot in northern Venezuela has left at least 11 people dead and 28 others wounded, a rights group said Friday, the latest tragedy to hit the country's desperately overcrowded detention facilities.
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Caracas -
A prison riot in northern Venezuela has left at least 11 people dead and 28 others wounded, a rights group said Friday, the latest disaster to hit the country's desperately overcrowded detention facilities.
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Kampungsengon -
A hostage crisis involving Islamist prisoners at a high-security jail outside Jakarta has been resolved nearly two days after a deadly riot broke out at the prison, Indonesian officials said Thursday.
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Bishopville -
Seven inmates were killed and 17 injured in clashes between rival gangs over "contraband and territory" at a maximum security prison in South Carolina, in the deadliest outbreak of prison violence in the United States in a quarter century.
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Coatzacoalcos -
Seven people including at least six police were killed Sunday in a prison riot in eastern Mexico, authorities said, the latest outburst of deadly violence in the country's jails.
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Ahmedabad -
Hindu hardliners rampaged through several Indian cities Wednesday protesting a controversial Bollywood film on the eve of its cinema debut, as violent mobs clashed with police, torched vehicles and vandalised malls.
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Brazilian authorities on Friday put down the third prison uprising this week at a penitentiary in the state of Goias, which was shaken by deadly gang fights earlier in the week, officials said.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Nearly a hundred escaped inmates remained at large from a state penitentiary in Brazil Tuesday after a deadly riot between rival gangs left nine prisoners dead, all of them burned and two decapitated, officials said.
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Paris -
About three in every 100 people injured by rubber bullets died as a result, according to a review of recorded casualties published Tuesday, calling for alternative crowd control measures.
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Manila -
A riot sparked by a bucket of water that was accidentally overturned left one dead in a Philippine jail notorious for its brutal overcrowding, an official said Saturday.
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Washington -
It was the evening of September 30, 1962 when Agence France-Presse reporter Paul Guihard arrived at the campus of the University of Mississippi.
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Washington -
It was the evening of September 30, 1962 when Agence France-Presse reporter Paul Guihard arrived at the campus of the University of Mississippi.
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Cox's Bazar -
Bangladesh authorities on Friday deployed hundreds of police to protect Buddhist temples in the region where about 400,000 Muslim Rohinygas have sought refuge from unrest in Myanmar.
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Caracas -
Venezuelan political rivals traded blame on Thursday for a gun and grenade battle in which 37 people were killed when security forces stormed a jailhouse.
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Caracas -
At least 37 people died in an hours-long prison riot in Venezuela's southern state of Amazonas, officials said Wednesday.
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Mexico -
Nine inmates were killed Thursday as gang members stabbed and bludgeoned their rivals to death in a prison brawl in Mexico, authorities said, the latest deadly violence in the country's jails.
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Hong Kong -
Two Hong Kong men were jailed for three years on rioting charges Monday, the latest in a series of legal actions against demonstrators.
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Acapulco -
Shell-shocked relatives of Mexican inmates who had been decapitated and mutilated by their rivals behind bars condemned on Friday what they called a reign of terror inflicted by gangs that extort and torture fellow prisoners.
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Acapulco -
Rioting inmates at a Mexican prison slit their rivals' throats and beat them to death Thursday, leaving 28 dead in the latest explosion of violence in the country's often lawless jails.
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Acapulco -
Rioting inmates at a Mexican prison slit their rivals' throats and beat them to death Thursday, leaving 28 dead and three wounded, officials said.
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Acapulco -
Brawling inmates at a Mexican prison beheaded and mutilated their rivals Thursday, leaving five dead and one wounded, officials said.
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Caracas -
Early in the morning, Maria and her comrades-in-arms creep out from the storm drains under the Caracas streets.They put on their helmets and black masks and take up their wooden shields."The ruckus is starting," Maria, 30, tells her companions.
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Riot Image
Anti-government protesters cheer after they tear down barricades during a demonstration outside Government House in Bangkok November 30, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Dylan Martinez
Ole Miss students fill the street after Obama won re-election Screen Capture
Screenshot of rioting taking place outside Millbank tower in London during student protests over decisions made to raise university fees.
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Left image shows second male suspect [Suspect C] pictured in the bottom left-hand corner of the image striking the car; right image shows same male pictured from behind (note: he is the person in the middle). Scotland Yard press release
Athens, Greece 12 February 2012. Greece debt crisis. Javi Larrauri
An inmate at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility talking as the riot is being filmed. YouTube screen grab Live Streaming News
Athens, Greece on fire - 12 February 2012 Athens Daily Secret
Police officers blocking the protesters from walking on the road.
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Riot on May Day in Berlin
Officers at the detention centre.
Aftermath of the Super Bowl Riots in Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA 2009 Ian Alexander Norman
Anti-government protesters cheer after they tear down barricades during a demonstration outside Government House in Bangkok With permission by Reuters / Dylan Martinez
Press conference at Johnnie Simpson Park prior to the march.
Ole Miss students riot, burn Obama campaign signs Ben Smith/Twitter
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Riot on May Day in Berlin
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Riot on May Day in Berlin
Riot on May Day in Berlin
Water cannon in use during a riot in Berlin Eilmeldung
Riot on May Day in Berlin
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