The Washington Post reports that Chile’s largest labor union called a nationwide strike on Thursday to demand improved labor conditions and tax reform, but officials said only a small percentage of workers participated. Small groups of hooded protesters set up flaming barricades ahead of the strike, blocking morning traffic. They also threw firebombs and torched a public transit bus in the capital Santiago. Police arrested 67 people, and six officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators. Read article
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our Turkish journalists who had earlier been taken into custody in Egypt, where days ago the military toppled the nation’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in a coup d’état, were released on Tuesday. Star TV News Coordinator Nazlı Öztarhan said on her Twitter feed earlier on Tuesday that Star TV reporter Murat Uslu and […]
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According to the BBC, Turkish riot police have been using tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters trying to enter a park cordoned off by police in Istanbul. Thousands have converged on Gezi Park, near the city’s Taksim Square – which was a focus of unrest last month. Protests against plans to redevelop the […]
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The Irish Times reports that between 60 and 70 supporters of desposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gathered at the Egyptian embassy in Dublin this evening to protest his overthrow. Supporters of Mr Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood in Ireland voiced their anger at how the man who last year became Egypt’s first democratically-elected president could […]
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According to telegraph.co.uk, Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, has been wounded while covering the uprisings in Cairo. The veteran reporter was photographed by his colleagues having a bandage tied around his head, with blood on his face. He tweeted after the attack: “Thanks for the messages. I’ve been hit by a couple of […]
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According to The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer travel to Egypt and U.S. citizens living in Egypt to depart at this time because of the continuing political and social unrest. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning issued on June 28, 2013. On July 3, 2013, the Department of State ordered […]
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Reuters.com reported that, one person was killed and more than two dozen injured in fighting on Sunday between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in the Nile city of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, security sources said. Read Article
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According to thelocal.se, a Swedish journalist was arrested by police during demonstrations at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Saturday evening, according to a Turkish colleague. “I think she will be deported back to Sweden,” Ongun Burak Guzel told the Expressen daily. The journalist is reported to have spent the evening in the Vatan police station and […]
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Hurriyetdailynews.com reports that the governor of the southeastern province confirmed that one person had been killed as a group of villagers trying to prevent the construction of a gendarmerie facility in Diyarbakır’s Lice clashed with security forces. “One person is dead and nine others have been injured,” Gov. Mustafa Cahit Kıraç told state-run Anadolu news […]
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According to Travel.state.gov, The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Egypt to defer non-essential travel to Egypt at this time due to the continuing possibility of political and social unrest. On June 28, 2013, the Department of State authorized the departure of a limited number of non-emergency employees and […]
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