Riot News

Traffic control was partially lifted Monday morning in parts of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after a deadly riot late Sunday, but tension still exists in the city.

A rare outbreak of unrest has erupted in Urumqi , Xinjiang. Reports say it was triggered by violence at a factory in Guangdong between Han and Uighur workers.

Honduras' exiled president flew toward home in a Venezuelan jet in a high-stakes attempt to return to power on Sunday, even as the interim government ordered the military to turn away the plane.

Protesters have pelted riot police with rocks during an American Independence Day demonstration against the $US500 million enlargement of a US military base in Italy.

In this citizen photograph taken Sunday, June 28, 2009, Alireza Beheshti, center, who is close assistant of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, unseen, speaks during a gathering in Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran.

VICENZA: Police and protesters clashed Saturday at a demonstration against plans for the expansion of a US military base in Vicenza in northern Italy, local media reports said.

Syrian authorities should immediately make public the fate of all detainees at Sednaya prison, at least nine of whom are believed to have been killed when military police used lethal force during unrest in the prison last July, Human Rights Watch said today.

Anti-G8 demonstrators clash with police in Italy Demonstrators, holding placards showing U.S. President Barack Obama, face riot policemen during a protest against the expansion of Dal Molin, a U.S. army base in Italy on Saturday.

As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, Iran enters limbo, an uncertain yet perilous period of time separating anger-driven demonstrations from either bloody tyrannical repression or sustained popular struggle producing a liberalizing revolution.

On Tuesday morning the trial of Sina Brown-Davis, an anarchist and mother of two from Aotearoa begins in Melbourne, Australia.

PHOTO: Shafiqul Alam Kailash Sarkar Garment workers burned down six factories, two warehouses and several vehicles of Ha-Meem Group at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.

Saturday, July 3, 1909 The New York Times Rate columns show number of deaths per 10,000 people for six months.

TWO more alleged members of the Comanchero bikie gang have been arrested over a fatal brawl at Sydney airport, police say.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.

Rubber rounds, pepper spray used to quell uprisin g Seven inmates were injured, one seriously, when a 17-person riot erupted at Pelican Bay State Prison's B Yard on Friday afternoon.

A prominent Israeli peace activist is expected to be sentenced to several months in jail tomorrow in a high-profile prosecution which began after he tried to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Protesters throw stones to riot police during clashes nearby the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa on June 29, 2009.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has ordered an inquiry in to the "suspicious" death of Neda Soltan, the woman shot by government militiamen during a protest in Tehran.

And speaking shams, here is another report from Press TV : Police, Basij 'imposters' arrested in Iran Mon, 29 Jun 2009 Iranian police officials have reportedly arrested the armed imposters who posed as security forces during post-election violence in the country.

Police and soldiers are using tear gas outside the Honduran presidential palace to scatter thousands of people protesting a coup that drove President Manuel Zelaya into exile.