"Limited use of tear gas or περιορισμένη χρήση χημικών" as they say in Greek is such a benign phrase suggesting that the police sent a few squirts in the general direction of those...
Marc Wadsworth for The-Latest.com Photograph: Deborah Hobson Big media headlines screamed "Riot police battle anarchists in City". One seasoned Fleet Street colleague told me wearily that press photographers and broadcast media cameras outnumbered G20 protesters when a...
Cecilia Anesi for The-Latest.com Desperate to escapeApril 1 morning, at 9 am, three friends of mine and I, all freelance photographers, were already walking around the City of London in order to check the situation and understand police positions and strongholds. However,...
The issue over the use of English in teaching science and mathematics in Malaysian schools has brewed up hot and heated over the weekend. Riot police fired tear gas to break up a 5,000 people mass street...
created by WisdomMountain | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 491 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
Giorgos Papandreaou, leader of Greece’s opposition in parliament was tear gassed during a speech in the Greek port of Pireaus this morning.Papandreau, head of the PASOK party was addressing protesting farmers...
Violent clashes between farmers and riot police followed the Greek authorities to prevent 2000 protesters from Crete from leaving the port city of Piraeus to demonstrate outside the parliament in Athens....
The move to bulldoze one of the last remaining parks in the Kypseli district of central Athens sparked off clashes between local residents and Greek riot police. Yesterday's decision by Athens mayor, Nikitis...
As George Bush and Gordon Brown quaffed fine wine and talked about history 2500 angry protestors are held back by british riot police."
Discussions around the dinner table centred not on politics but...
Hundreds of fishermen clashed with riot police as they protested outside the European Union buildings in Brussels.The latest clashes follows weeks of strikes by French fishermen.The fishermen are upset at EU...
created by cynthia yoo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 150 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
With 70,000 tons of rubbish laying uncollected in the greater metropolitan Athens area the Greek government has sent in riot police to ensure than the garbage trucks can enter the capital's Ano Losion land fill....
"German police detained 50 English and German football fans after skirmishes following Germany's quarter-final win over Argentina on Friday. Riot police had moved in to separate hundreds of English and German fans...
created by Golden Goal | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1764 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments