Protesters boo British PM and blame Tory cuts for the fire that killed dozens

The horrible fire at the Grenfell Tower that killed over 70 people have brought families of those killed on streets who booed the British PM May when she tried to visit them.

The Prime Minister failed to address people demanding a response to the devastating fire and was heavily cordoned by police.

The protesters were heard shouting 'May must go' as they blame Tory cuts for the fire that killed more than 70 people mostly by complete burns and suffocation.

Deaths occurred due to inadequate fire fighting arrangements that could extinguish fire on tall buildings like the Grenfell Tower. The firefighters are seen extinguishing fire with water hoses that barely reached the lower few stories of the ill fated tower which was completely consumed by fire.

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Turkey Protests Grow Violent

Angry protesters are reported to have gathered at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's offices in Istanbul and Ankara, calling on him to resign.

"Dictator, resign!... We will resist until we win," yelled the crowds, in the latest of a string of protests that have by some accounts left hundreds injured.

Turkey's Islamist-rooted government is presently facing  growing pressure after angry demonstrators clashed for a third night with police in a nationwide wave of protests.

Accused by critics of pushing an increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda, Erdogan's government is facing the biggest protests since it took power in 2002.

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Fans' outrage at soaring Rolling Stones ticket prices

Rolling Stones fans reacted with fury on Wednesday at the steep cost of tickets for the British band's 50th anniversary shows, while prices soared to thousands of pounds on re-sale websites.

After months of rumours, the Stones announced on Monday that they would play two nights at London's 02 Arena on November 25 and 29, followed by gigs at New Jersey's Newark Prudential Center, just outside New York, on December 13 and 15.

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But hundreds of fans have taken to the Internet to complain about the ticket prices, with a seat for the London shows costing £406 ($650, 500 euros) on the official ticket website.

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Belfast's first abortion clinic unleashes a flurry of campaigns

The opening of the first private abortion clinic in Northern Ireland, set for October 18, has unleashed a flurry of campaigns on both sides of the abortion divide and exposed the murky status of anti-abortion laws in the region.

Women - and men - trying to enter the Belfast offices of the Family Planning Association (FPA), a British sexual health charity, have been heckled and sometimes harassed by a raucous picket of anti-abortion activists wielding grisly photographs of apparently aborted foetuses.

The FPA motto is “Talking sense about sex”. But when it comes to abortion, sense often gives way to inflamed sensitivities in this largely self-governed region of the UK.

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Pakistan urges US to rethink about concept of free speech

The vising Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has urged the US to  rethink about its concept of free speech. Th statement comes in the wake of anti-America protests in many parts of the world over an anti-Islam film, including Pakistan.

“It is not good enough to say it’s free speech, it should be allowed. I think if this does provoke action against American citizens or Americans anywhere else in the world, then maybe we do need to rethink how much freedom is OK,” Khar told the CNN in an interview.

Khar was responding to questions on violent anti-US protests in cities across Pakistan against the film made in the US.

Though the Obama Administration has termed the video as “disgusting” and said that the US has nothing to do with this video, it refused to ban such a movie arguing that freedom of speech is enshrined in its constitution.

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Police fire rubber bullets to regain control of besieged U.S. embassy in Pakistan

Protesting against the blasphemous anti Islam fil made by an American, Thousands of protesters descended on the U.S. embassy in Pakistan today over an anti-Islam video causing police to fire live rounds and tear gas into the crowds, injuring 50 people. 

An estimated 5,000 demonstrators carrying the flags of hardline Islamist groups pelted police with stones as security forces tried to prevent them from reaching the embassy compound in Islamabad. 

The military were forced to intervene due to the size of the crowd, many of them students, and helicopters hovered overheard. Several policemen were injured in the clashes.

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Anti Muslim Film: Google Refuses to Remove YouTube Video

Despite the outrage expressed by the entire Muslim world and the Muslim community in the USA against the airing of the anti Muslim film and White House officials' asking YouTube to review an anti-Muslim video Friday, the Google-owned site doesn’t have any intention of taking it down, according to The New York Times.

Google told the publication that the “Innocence of Muslims” video does not violate terms of service for YouTube regarding hate speech because it is focused on the Muslim religion and not the people who practice it. Although Google put up a temporary block on the clip in Egypt and Libya due to local violations in those countries, it still remains accessible to most worldwide.

The 14-minute video, which was a trailer for an upcoming “Innocence of Muslims” film thought to be created by an American man — upset the Muslim community for insulting the religion’s Prophet Muhammad.

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Sacrilegious Film: Protests spread over entire Muslim World

The sacrilegious film that has attacked the religion of Islam has its sever reaction seen across the entire Muslim world as protests have erupted in most of the Islamic countries.

Angry demonstrators and  protesters smashed into the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and stormed the US embassy in Tunis, after the American ambassador was killed in Libya, the recently 'liberated' country by USA from the clutches of Gaddafi. 

The national assembly of Pakistan has unanimously condemned the making of this anti Islamic film, while protests, though peaceful, were seen all over the country.

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Anti Islam Film: Saudi Arabia joins world wide condemnation

Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday a film Muslims consider blasphemous to Islam while denouncing the violent anti-American protests it sparked in some Middle East countries.

"Saudi Arabia has expressed... its condolences to the United States of America for the victims of violent actions in Libya that targeted the American consulate in Benghazi," state news agency SPA reported citing a senior official.

Arab outrage over the virulently Islamophobic film, "Innocence of Muslims", spread to Yemen earlier in the day when hundreds of angry protesters stormed the US embassy in Sanaa. 

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Anti-Muslim film: Afghanistan bans YouTube

Afghanistan banned the YouTube website on Wednesday to stop Afghans watching a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad that sparked protests in North Africa and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

"We have been told to shut down YouTube to the Afghan public until the video is taken down," Aimal Marjan, general director of Information Technology at the Ministry of Communications, told Reuters.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the film, in which Mohammad is portrayed as a philanderer and a religious fake, saying its makers had done a "devilish act" and that insulting Islam was not allowed by freedom of speech.

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US ambassador 'killed in Libya'?

The US ambassador to Libya has died after an attack by militiamen on the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi. However, the US state department has only confirmed the death of one official - but it has not named them.

Ambassador Christopher Stevens is said to be among four US officials killed in a protest over a US-produced film that is said to insult the Prophet Muhammad.

Protesters have also attacked the US embassy in Cairo over the film.

In the attack in Benghazi, unidentified armed men stormed the grounds, shooting at buildings and throwing handmade bombs into the compound.

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Egyptian protesters scale American Embassy wall in Cairo

Protesting against a video attacking Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, many ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt’s capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscription.

Hundreds of protesters marched to the embassy in downtown Cairo, gathering outside its walls and chanting against the movie, which was reportedly produced in the United States.

“Say it, don’t fear: Their ambassador must leave,” the crowd chanted.

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The protest was sparked by outrage over a video being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the U.S., clips of which are available on the social website YouTube and dubbed in Egyptian Arabic. 

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Protests as USS Osprey aircraft arrive in Japan

The US military's Osprey aircraft arrived in Japan early Monday as residents rallied against their deployment after recent crashes raised safety concerns. Live television footage showed MV-22s being unloaded from a cargo ship at the US Marines' base in Iwakuni, western Japan. 

Local protesters in a dozen small boats demonstrated against the controversial aircraft's arrival, chanting "We don't want the dangerous Osprey!" and "Osprey, go back to America". The demonstration against the unloading of the aircraft would continue throughout the day, protest organizer Kiyoshi Oka told AFP by telephone. 

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Spanish PM to unveil fresh cuts

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has begun addressing parliament, setting out a new raft of austerity measures aimed at balancing the budget.

His speech comes as hundreds of Spanish miners arrived in Madrid to protest against government cuts to subsidies.

Mr Rajoy is expected to unveil a rise in VAT as well as cuts to social security and unemployment benefits.

The measures are in return for a eurozone bank bailout and an extension to Spain's deficit reduction targets.

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Mass protests in Egypt over Mubarak verdicts

Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage against what they feel are lenient sentences given to ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs.

A judge sentenced Mubarak, 84, and his interior minister Habib al-Adly to life in prison on Saturday for involvement in the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted them from power last year.

Mubarak, the only autocrat toppled in the Arab Spring to be put in the dock, could have been sent to the gallows as demanded by the prosecution. He was also cleared of graft charges.

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Veterans symbolically discard service medals at anti-NATO rally

Nearly 50 U.S. military veterans at an anti-NATO rally in Chicago threw their service medals into the street on Sunday, an action they said symbolized their rejection of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some of the veterans, many wearing military uniform shirts over black anti-war t-shirts, choked back tears as they explained their actions. Others folded an American flag while a bugle played "Taps," which is typically performed at U.S. military funerals.

"The medals are supposed to be for acts of heroism. I don't feel like a hero. I don't feel like I deserve them," said Zach LaPorte, who served in Iraq in 2005 and 2006.

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Cairo: Clashes over army rule leave 11 dead

At least 11 people were killed in the Egyptian capital in clashes outside the Defence Ministry between protesters and armed men whom they said suddenly attacked them.

For hours the security forces seemed unable or unwilling to put an end to the violence.

The demonstrators were demanding an end to army rule and are angry that an ultraorthadox Salafi sheikh has been barred from running in the forthcoming presidential elections.

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Syria: Revolt 'over,' but violence continues

Syria says the yearlong revolt to topple President Bashar al-Assad is now over, but it will keep its forces in cities to "maintain security" until it is safe to withdraw in keeping with a UN-backed peace deal.

The agreement proposed by United Nations-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan says the Syrian authorities must be first to withdraw troops and stop violence immediately.

The army kept up an offensive against opposition strongholds on Saturday, pummelling the Khalidiya district of Homs city.

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Spain police and protesters clash

Spanish police have clashed with demonstrators on the day of a general strike called in protest at the government's labour market reforms, Thursday 29 March.

Some of the marchers in Barcelona smashed windows and set rubbish bins alight. Police responded with tear gas and baton charges.

There were also protests in the capital, Madrid, and other cities. Land and air travel were all affected, and domestic and European flights cut to a fraction of normal levels.

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Lower Turnout At Anti-Putin Rally

Fresh protests have been taking place in Moscow and other Russian cities following Vladimir Putin's victory in last weekend's presidential election.

Up to 20,000 people lined one of central Moscow's main avenues.

However, this was much lower than the turnouts that followed December's parliamentary election, which the opposition said was rigged.

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