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One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... difference: one minority was in power, another felt exploited. One evening, Washington, D.C., police arrested Daniel Enrique Gomez, 30, a Salvadoran immigrant, on charges of public drinking. Police say Gomez pulled a knife and lunged at Officer Angela Jewell, a black rookie; she fired in self-defense. Word spread in the Hispanic community that Gomez was handcuffed when shot. Within...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
South Korean police refused to allow more candlelight protests against the resumption of American beef imports, after the government announced Sunday it would not tolerate violent, illegal rallies.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Text Size: The police on Monday raided the offices of two civic groups accused of leading weeks of protests against American beef imports. The raids followed government warnings that it would get tough on the demonstrations.One of the civic groups, the Korea Solidarity for Progressive Movement, said the police confiscated 22 desktop computers and a box-load of documents from its office...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
South Korean authorities are refusing to allow more protests against the government's decision to allow beef imports from the United States, after hundreds of people were injured in clashes with riot police overnight Saturday.
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
MEXICO CITY -- The police commander who led a botched raid on a Mexico City nightclub will be charged with 12 counts of homicide, one for each person who died in the crush at the bar's entrance, prosecutors said Wednesday.City Atty. Gen. Rodolfo Felix Cardenas said his office was bringing the charges against precinct commander Guillermo Zayas for failing to halt Friday's mismanaged raid, in...
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Brave New Traveler (Free subscription) | yesterday
... be dropping like the flies feasting on their corpses. Thousands of people on the streets , riot police, water canons, blockades - you can also bet this is a more complex issue than bovines going bonkers. And I had a window seat, since the action was taking place below my hotel window at the Somerset Palace in downtown Seoul. A rock narrowly misses my cameraman Sean’s head, slamming into...
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Common Sense and Wonder (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... Dec 2007: At least 13 people killed in a suicide car bombing Sept 2007: Suicide bomb attack on bus kills 30 Afghan soldiers June 2007: Bomb attack on Afghan police bus kills up to 35 people “The sophistication of this attack and the kind of material that was used in it and the specific targeting, everything has the hallmark of a particular intelligence agency that has conducted similar terrorist...
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
New Delhi: Bajrang Dal activists have held demonstrations outside the Jammu and Kashmir house here protesting any move to cancel a controversial land allotment to the Amarnath shrine authorities. ‘They were carrying swords and were throwing stones on the J&K house. They also damaged a police bus and broke its window panes,’ the police [...]
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Oh My News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
There is a sentence I cannot get out of my head. For a week, it is the only thing that comes up when I read the news, talk with friends, or walk through downtown Seoul where the streets are filled with police buses and people protesting beef imports and government policies. Last week, I was discussing the protests in Korea with a friend. Both of us have been following the conflict between...
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Pedestrian Infidel (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Who says Muslims and leftists don't think alike? This photo, taken this week in Seoul, is rather strongly reminiscent of the French 'car-bee-ques' that are lit up most nights in Europe. Only this time, Korea's anti American thugs have one-upped their Muslim brethren--here a Korean police bus goes up in flames. Korea's chronic anti Americanism, of which the so-called 'anti US beef' protest are...
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Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... back calm to rallies that have mostly been peaceful but recently turned violent with mobs smashing police buses blocking the way to the presidential Blue House. About 200 catholic priests led the peaceful rallies for three days, followed by a Protestant Church group KNCC (The National Council of churches in Korea) leading Thursday’s candle-lit vigil. A protester said he has joined...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
More than 100 people protesting South Korea's decision to resume imports of U.S. beef were injured in clashes with police in Seoul Sunday, officials said.The rally spearheaded by trade unionists and anti-U.S. militants turned violent early Sunday morning when a police bus barricade stopped protesters from marching to the office of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's Yonhap...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Thousands of protesters, who opposed U.S. beef imports into South Korea, clashed violently with riot police in downtown Seoul until early Sunday morning, leaving over 100 people injured. In the first weekend rally after Seoul implem ...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Indonesian police have arrested nine suspected militants who were planning to attack an area frequented by tourists, authorities say.
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Oh My News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
As the Candlelight Vigil ended last Saturday night, people started marching along Taepeong Road and Jong Road [in downtown Seoul] thanks to the barricade of police cars in front of the Press Center. The situation felt different...
