Four lawyers held for attack on Bengaluru journalists
Four lawyers were arrested late Saturday for their suspected involvement in a violent attack the day before on journalists and policemen at the city civil court complex, police said.
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Advocates attack mediapersons; judicial probe ordered
For the second time in two months, lawyers went on the rampage on Friday, this time at the City Civil Court against television journalists covering the Janardhan Reddy case, and the hundreds of police
Probe again, but to what end?
With all hell breaking loose at the City Civil Court complex on Friday, the government has ordered a judicial probe into the incident with Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda saying there was a need
Sarkozy takes refuge in Basque bar as insults and eggs fly
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took refuge in a bar Thursday after hundreds of Basque separatists and opposition Socialist party supporters mobbed him and some shouted insults and threw eggs.
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Bhopal gas tragedy victims take Dow protest to UK govt
Activists and victims of India's Bhopal gas tragedy submitted a petition signed by 20,000 people on Monday calling on British authorities to drop Dow Chemical as sponsor of the London Olympics.
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Two Western journalists dead, Syria's Homs pounded
Two Western journalists were more than a dozen people killed on Wednesday as Syrian forces pounded the rebel city of Homs, activists said, while calls mounted for a truce to allow in humanitarian aid.
Nasheed rejects police summons
A defiant Mohammad Nasheed has rejected a police summons to record his statement on his controversial order to arrest a top judge when he was President, amid claims by his party that he still enjoyed
Protests continue over killing of youth in Baramulla
Protests rocked Rafiabad area of Kashmir's Baramulla district for the second day on Saturday over the killing of a youth allegedly in firing by security forces.
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Syria's Homs under new deadly blitz
Regime forces launched a new blitz on the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, killing dozens of people, activists said, as the UN weighed a joint mission with the Arab League to end the unrest.
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17 dead as Syrian forces pound powderkeg Homs
Syrian forces on Monday pounded powderkeg Homs with rockets and mortars, killing 17 people and wounding dozens amid growing outrage over a Russia-China veto of a UN resolution to stop the violence.
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