Madagascar police tear-gas protesters outside mediation talks

October 9th, 2009 Honduras police break up protests at site of talksTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Police fired tear gas and a water cannon Friday at protesters outside a hotel where talks on behalf of rival claimants to the Honduran presidency showed little sign of progress. Six negotiators — three each for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti — met for a second day after a diplomatic mission sponsored by the Organization of American States brought them together.

October 7th, 2009 Mediators: Madagascar leader can't run in electionANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Madagascar's opposing political factions have agreed to retain the coup leader as head of the transitional government starting Wednesday but will not allow him to run in presidential elections, mediators said. African Union envoy Ablasse Ouedraogo said late Tuesday that coup leader Andry Rajoelina will lead the transitional government until an election is held.

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.

September 9th, 2009 Toppled Madagascar leader rejects new governmentANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Madagascar's ousted president and another former head of the Indian Ocean island have rejected the formation of a new government. Andry Rajoelina, the military-backed politician who seized control of the country in March, unilaterally named a new Cabinet Tuesday.

August 28th, 2009 Madagascar talks fail to decide on interim leadersMAPUTO, Mozambique — Talks aimed at determining who should lead Madagascar in a new interim government ended Friday with the ousted president and the man who replaced him in a military coup failing to agree on who should take the top posts. Parties set a deadline of Sept.

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 4th, 2009 Madagascar political rivals to meet in MozambiqueMAPUTO, Mozambique — Two Madagascar politicians who have waged a deadly power struggle are meeting in an attempt to end the Indian Ocean island's political crisis. Ousted President Marc Ravalomanana and his rival Andry Rajoelina are to hold talks Wednesday in the Mozambican capital Maputo.

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 16th, 2009 International mediators suspend Madagascar talksANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — International mediators say they are indefinitely suspending negotiations in Madagascar because the Indian Ocean island's politicians are blocking progress. The talks are aimed at restoring constitutional order and involve representatives of military-backed leader Andry Rajoelina as well as the president he ousted in March.

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.

April 24th, 2009 2 killed, 6 injured in Madagascar unrestANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Madagascar police and supporters of the African country's ousted president clashed in running street battles Friday, leaving two people dead and six injured, officials said. One of the dead — a woman — was hit by a stray bullet fired as police tried to break up a demonstration by supporters of Marc Ravalomanana, hospital officials said.

April 23rd, 2009 Rioting as Madagascar armed forces dispel protestsANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Armed forces in Madagascar fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators loyal to the island nation's ousted president on Thursday, as looters rampaged through the streets of the capital. Radio Madagascar said numerous casualties were being taken to the Antananarivo's main hospital.

April 23rd, 2009 36 injured in Madagascar protests; Attack thwartedANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Security forces in Madagascar announced Thursday they thwarted an attack against the wife of the country's military-backed president — the same day that 36 people were injured in anti-government protests. Supporters of ousted president Marc Ravalomanana — who still enjoys international diplomatic recognition as the Indian Ocean island's leader — clashed with police and went on the rampage through the capital.

March 21st, 2009 ADDIS ABABA/ANTANANARIVO - Madagascar's new leader was in a corner Friday after the African Union (AU) suspended the country over his 'coup' and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said it was planning sanctions. The chairman of the AU Peace and Security Council, Bruno Nongoma Zidouemba, said Rajoelina's army-backed arrival to power through the streets constituted a 'civilian and military coup'.

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.