Baraa Melhem poses for a photo at her mother's house in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the ...
Protestors marched to Goldman Sachs headquarters where they held a demonstration demanding accountability for destructive financial practices. The group entered the World Financial Cent...
Davy Keo recounts her life and the brutality inflicted on her family by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1970's Cambodia as three of Pol Pot's ageing Khmer Rouge top commanders face ...
Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin a hunger strike in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to demand their pensions are re-instated. Ukraine. 1st December 2011
Piles of garbage grow in the residential areas as the flood waters recede and residents return to their flood ravaged houses. Thailand. 28th November 2011
After a sharp fall in the first hour of the day's trading, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has closed with the benchmark index gaining over 160 points and prices of most shares risi...
The legacy of R. K. Narayan has been forgotten in the city where he lived during the most productive years of his life. Mysore, India. 26th November 2011
Mr Aye lost thousands of rare, scarce and secondhand books when his shop flooded in the Sai Noi area North West of Bangkok. He salvages what stock he is able to and dries all the ruined...
Dozens of villagers have demanded the East Java Police Chief immediately investigates the alleged corruption case of land compensation for the Lapindo mudflow victims. Surabaya, Indones...
Internally displaced persons go onto the streets in various locations around Kenya, demonstrating against the government to compensate those who where displaced from there homes during ...
Hungarian police, firefighters and other emergency services march in protest against austerity measures. The march culminated in a demonstration outside the Hungarian Parliament Buildin...
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD, will submit complaints to the UN's Special Rapporteurs, claiming that Israel's policy in East Jerusalem violates intern...
Young people unable to afford to buy flats arranged a march to urge the government to meet their election promises concerning construction of housing at affordable prices and compensati...
Ten years after the invasion of Afghanistan, the Stop The War Coalition, CND and MAB held a lengthy mass rally in Trafalgar Square before marching to Downing Street to demand an end to ...
Dozens of residents from Mindi village, Porong, went to the Sidoarjo Mud Mitigation Agency and questioned the government that only three villages were repaired in the region affected, 2...
Leader of Basildon Council, Tony Ball looks through a window as he hides from Dale Farm residents and members of the media waiting outside after a temporary reprieve in the travellers b...
The British Ministry is set to compensate the families of those who were killed by paratroopers, during Bloody Sunday, in Londonderry on 30th January 1972. UK. 22nd September 2011
Teachers in Madrid stayed off the job in large numbers during the second day of a strike over staff cuts. Colleagues in the northwestern region of Galicia joined them. 21st September 20...
Two Palestinian families that run the vegetable souk outside Damascus Gate, rioted when a trader was caught selling produce at 1 shekel less than the agreed rate, causing severe disrupt...
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