EU police fire tear gas, stun grenades to disperse Serb protesters in Kosovo’s tense north

October 6th, 2009 Police break up anti-IMF protest in IstanbulISTANBUL — Turkish police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray on Tuesday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in Istanbul. Dozens of masked protesters shattered the windows of a McDonald's restaurant and several banks, also damaging vehicles as they ran into the streets behind Istanbul's Taksim Square, which is less than a kilometer (half a mile) from the venue of the IMF and World Bank meeting.

October 6th, 2009 Madagascar police use tear gas on protestersANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Police have dispersed protesters with tear gas outside a meeting of mediators who hope to smooth over Madagascar's post-coup political turmoil. African Union commissioner Jean Ping says the third meeting of African Union and southern African mediators on Tuesday hopes to reach a peaceful political solution after a coup in March.

September 30th, 2009 Israeli police, protesters clash at holy siteJERUSALEM — Israeli police used stun grenades Sunday to disperse Palestinian rioters at a volatile Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims, police said. The incident took place during a visit by a Jewish group to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

September 24th, 2009 Cops disperse hundreds of Pittsburgh G-20 marchersPITTSBURGH — Police are throwing canisters spewing smoke after ordering several hundred protesters to stop their march in opposition of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh. The march does not have a city permit and police have declared it an unlawful assembly.

September 16th, 2009 Protesters burn photos of UN judges in SarajevoSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Protesters have set photos of several U.N. war crimes tribunal judges on fire in Sarajevo to oppose the shortening of the genocide indictment against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

August 26th, 2009 SAfrican police clash with protesting soldiersJOHANNESBURG — Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas as violence flared during a wage protest by South African soldiers in the streets of Pretoria, the capital. A policeman and several soldiers were injured.

August 16th, 2009 Protest in Peru over slow recovery from 2007 quakeLIMA, Peru — Residents of a city destroyed by an earthquake in southern Peru two years ago protested Saturday over the slow pace of reconstruction, and police fired tear gas after the demonstrators blocked an important bridge. Some 4,000 people in Pisco blocked the Huamani bridge for four hours, disrupting traffic on the main route linking the south with the national capital, Lima.

August 1st, 2009 Malaysian police tear gas, scuffle with protestersKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Riot police charged demonstrators with batons and fired tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands of people marching in Malaysia's largest city to protest a law that allows indefinite detention without trial. People began massing at Kuala Lumpur's main mosque, a shopping mall and a train station Saturday morning in defiance of government warnings that police would crack down on demonstrators, who are pushing leaders to scrap the Internal Security Act, which allows the imprisonment of people regarded as security threats.

July 29th, 2009 Police use stun gun on man with pistol at GatwickLONDON — British police say officers used a stun gun to subdue a man carrying a pistol at London's Gatwick Airport. Sussex Police say the man was spotted by another passenger on a bus to the airport early Wednesday.

July 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh's Amethi town, the parliamentary constituency of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, remained tense Tuesday following violent protests by people against erratic power supply, officials said. The Congress held the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) responsible for the problem.

June 20th, 2009 Witnesses: police clash with Tehran protestersTEHRAN, Iran — Witnesses say police are using tear and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters rallying in Tehran to demand a new presidential election. English-language state TV says a blast at the Tehran shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wounded two people.

June 12th, 2009 Police fire tear gas in Peru protestsLIMA, Peru — Riot police have fired tear gas to keep protesters away from Peru's Congress as thousands march in favor of Amazon Indians who want it to overturn laws they say threaten their lands. Some 4,000 students, labor unions and other native Peruvians from the country's Andean highlands to its jungle lowlands joined the mostly peaceful nationwide protests.

June 5th, 2009 Court confirms indictment against Bosnian SerbSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia's war crimes court says a former Bosnian Serb police officer accused of taking part in the killing of at least 1,000 Muslim Bosniak men from the town of Srebrenica will be tried for genocide. The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina charged in a statement Friday that, as a member of a Bosnian Serb special police unit, Zeljko Ivankovic, 37, killed the victims in a warehouse into which Bosnia Serbs had herded them, "with a view to entirely destroying a group of Bosniaks." The 1995 massacre of 8,100 Bosniaks that followed the Serb occupation of the east Bosnian town of Srebrenica is considered the worst carnage in Europe since World War II.

March 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - One man died and over a dozen protesters and security men were injured, one of them critically, in clashes after Friday prayers in the old city areas of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. Shahid Ahmed Ahangar was declared brought dead by the doctors at the SMHS hospital.

March 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Over a dozen protesters and security men were injured in clashes after Friday prayers in the old city areas of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. Agitated protesters indulged in heavy stone pelting at the police in the Nowhatta area of the city after Friday prayers, forcing the police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to use batons and fire tear smoke shells to quell the mob.