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Thousands of riot police and Revolutionary Guard members armed with tear gas, batons and firearms were deployed Monday outside Tehran University to prevent student demonstrations backed by the opposition.
Six members of an anti-Al Qaeda militia were gunned down in broad daylight near the Iraqi capital on Monday, police said, in the latest in a series of such attacks.
Iranian police clashed on Monday with opposition supporters in a central Tehran square, a witness said.
Pakistan's Supreme Court began hearing a case Monday against an amnesty that had protected President Asif Ali Zardari and many key allies from graft charges.
Greek youths are planning more protests in Athens and other major cities as part of the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager that sparked riots last year.
Gunmen loyal to a powerful clan accused in the Philippines' worst political massacre clashed with police in the first reported violence since a southern province came under martial law, officials said Monday.
Greece on Monday geared for a second day of demonstrations after weekend protests to mark the death of a teenager shot by a policeman a year ago turned violent, leaving at least 30 injured.
A police officer responding to a domestic disturbance was shot dead outside a suburban Pittsburgh home where another man was killed inside, authorities said.
Hundreds of policemen were deployed around Tehran University on Monday as defiant Iranian students called for mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to mark Students Day.
Sudanese police detained three senior figures from the south's ruling party and dozens of protesters on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a pro-reform protest, witnesses said.
An explosion killed two people and wounded 20 others outside a court in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Monday, but police said it was not immediately clear if the blast was caused by a bomb.
A Chinese woman arrested in Japan for illegal entry had altered her fingerprints through surgery to fool a biometric security system at the airport, media reports said Monday.
He could be called the "Bad Breath Bandit."
Police say an explosion outside a court building in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar has killed two people and wounded 10.
Iranian riot police have surrounded Tehran University to prevent the opposition from hijacking a state-organized rally on Monday to stage new demonstrations against the government, witnesses said.
Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said.
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