At least one person has been killed and more than 20 injured in clashes outside Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral following the funerals of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence. Coptic mourners leaving Cairo’s main cathedral are said to have clashed with local residents. Police fired tear gas to break up the violence. The head [...]
At least 30 people have died in today’s Port Said clashes sparked by the sentencing to death of 21 local people over football riots in Egypt. Supporters of the defendants tried to storm the prison holding them and attacked police stations. The 21 were sentenced over riots which killed 74 people after a football game [...]
An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 21 defendants over clashes between rival football fans at Port Said stadium in which 74 people were killed last February. The riots began after a league game at Port Said stadium between local side al-Masry and Cairo club al-Ahly. The violence – Egypt’s worst football disaster – sparked [...]
Fresh clashes have broken out in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on the eve of the second leg of voting in the country’s constitutional referendum. Police fired tear gas as thousands of Islamists were met by a smaller group of protesters near a large mosque. The Islamists back President Mohamed Morsi and his draft constitution. [...]
At least 56 people have been killed and hundreds of homes torched since Sunday, as clashes spread in Burma’s Rakhine state. Several were killed overnight as violence erupted despite a night-time curfew in at least two towns. The latest clashes are the first serious outburst of violence since June when a state of emergency was [...]
Fresh fighting in many parts of Syria throughout the night has followed the deaths on Wednesday of three top regime figures in a suspected suicide attack. Syrian government and opposition both said large numbers of people died, in one of the bloodiest days of the conflict. Activists said artillery and helicopters were used in the [...]
Protesters against Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin have clashed with police in the capital Moscow, ahead of his inauguration on Monday for a third term. The protest was peaceful until a small group of demonstrators tried to break through the lines of riot police. Opposition activists Alexei Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov and Boris Nemtsov have all been [...]
At least 73 supporters have been killed in clashes between rival fans following a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said. The supporters have been killed when fans invaded the pitch after a match between top-tier clubs Masry and al-Ahly on Wednesday. It is feared the death toll could rise as about 1,000 people [...]
At least 51 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by gunmen during the latest clashes in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state, according to regional governor Kuol Manyang. At least 22 others were injured after attackers raided and burned the village of Duk Padiet, governor Kuol Manyang added. All wounded people have been evacuated [...]
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