Anti-bin tax activists to hold Dublin protest on Saturday (Evening Echo)

Campaigners against the imposition of waste charges are due to hold a demonstration in Dublin to protest at the introduction of nationwide pay-by-use charges on January 1.

Abortion protest row as police move in (Belfast Telegraph)

A Northern Ireland anti-abortion group today hit out after police disrupted one of their protests and seized graphic posters. One member of Precious Life is now facing possible prosecution after police seized the display board showing images of abortions during the protest in...

South Korean activists protest Japan's claim to islets (AP via Yahoo! Asia News)

Activists ripped and burned Japanese flags outside Japan's embassy in Seoul on Thursday to protest Tokyo's territorial claim to a group of tiny islands controlled by South Korea.

Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of 'Ideology of Evil' (Reuters)

Reuters - Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.

"If you don't like gay marriage, don't marry somebody of the same sex."

That's what Richard Schaal says, according to www.pressconnects.com in their article covering a Manhattan judge's decision that denying couples a marriage license just because they are both male or female is unconstitutional. Who can argue with logic that straightforward?

Protest in Vancouver

On the steps of the Art Gallery...

Thousands March in Growing French Protests

From Reuters:   Some 210,000 public sector workers marched through French cities on Thursday in widening protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.