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Jordan Charges Syrians over Riot in Zaatari Camp
Eight Syrian refugees were charged on Tuesday with “unlawful assembly” after rioting last week at the Zaatari refugee camp injured 10 policemen, a judicial official said. A court in the northeastern city of Mafraq “charged the eight Syrian men today with unlawful assembly for taking part in [...]
25 petrol bombs thrown during riot in Fountain, Derry
About 25 petrol bombs were thrown during rioting in the Fountain area of Londonderry on Friday night, police have said. The trouble broke out at about 19:30 BST with nationalist youths throwing stones in the area. When police arrived, petrol bombs were thrown towards [...]
Palestinian wounded in clash with Israelis dies in hospital
A Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers during a confrontation with stone-throwers in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago died of his wounds on Thursday, his family and a hospital official said. The incident occurred during protests in support of a hunger strike by four Palestinian [...]
Top NPA leader arrested in Bohol
MANILA, Philippines – Combined government security forces on Tuesday arrested in Bohol a top New People’s Army (NPA) leader in Central Visayas. Arrested for illegal possession of firearms was Ruben Nabas, who is also known as Ka Ebyong, Ka Elmer, Ka Padi and Ka Rex in the underground movement. [...]
1 dead, 3 hurt in NPA attack on Del Monte compound
MANOLO FORTICH, Bukidnon — A security guard was killed while three others, including a civilian, were wounded when armed men believed to be New People’s Army rebels stormed the compound of a multinational firm here at around 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. Capt. Christian [...]
Thousands of security cameras installed across Baghdad
At least 13,000 security cameras have been installed across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the security committee on the Baghdad provincial council said Saturday (February 9th). The cameras began operating on Friday and are “linked to a sophisticated control centre supervised by security personnel specialised in surveillance”, committee head [...]
AMMAN, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Rioting in Jordan after the government raised fuel prices left one protester dead, the first fatality of violence sweeping impoverished towns in the kingdom, and Islamists called for more protests on Friday. Hundreds took to the streets this week after the government decided to raise gasoline, cooking gas and heating [...]
AMMAN — Jordan was hit Wednesday by a wave of protests and strikes while rioting broke in southern cities and a police station was attacked, security officials said, as anger mounted against a whopping rise in fuel prices. The sudden price hike, followed by an 11 percent increase in public transport fares, [...]
Jordanian riot police used tear gas to disperse Syrian refugees at a camp in the north of the country who set fire to tents and destroyed property in protest at their living conditions, a charity said Tuesday. “Some 500 refugees demonstrated against their living conditions in the Zaatari camp,” said Zayed Hammad, president of the [...]
AMMAN, Aug 28 (KUNA) — Some 26 Jordanian security personnel were injured on Tuesday when chaos erupted in a refugee camp for displaced Syrians. Around 200 Syrians were protesting what they claimed were low standards at Zaatari camp, and attacked the camp’s coordinators and security personnel with stones during a meeting with them, Jordan’s state [...]
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