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Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Arizona

Republican candidates for President met in Arizona in what is believed to be the last debate of this primary season. In a race that has seen numerous...

by Parker Haeg in United States on 23/02/2012

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Occupy LSX camp begins to Pack Up

Activists from the Occupy LSX camp started to strike camp after news filtered through of a judge's ruling ordering their camp be removed. Whilst...

by mirrorimage photos in United Kingdom on 23/02/2012

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OccupyLSX strike camp after appeal rejected

Occupy London camp that was started in protest over corporate greed and corruption outside St Pauls Cathedral in London faces imminent eviction and...

by Heard InLondon in United Kingdom on 22/02/2012

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23/02/2012 - Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Arizona - United States - Republican candidates for President met...
23/02/2012 - Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Arizona - United States - Republican candidates for President met...
23/02/2012 - Occupy LSX camp begins to Pack Up - United Kingdom - Activists from the Occupy LSX camp...
23/02/2012 - Occupy LSX camp begins to Pack Up - United Kingdom - Activists from the Occupy LSX camp...
22/02/2012 - OccupyLSX strike camp after appeal rejected - United Kingdom - Occupy London camp that was started in...
22/02/2012 - OccupyLSX strike camp after appeal rejected - United Kingdom - Occupy London camp that was started in...
22/02/2012 - Students demand resignation of Government delegate - Valencia - Spain - Thousands of people took to the streets...
22/02/2012 - Students demand resignation of Government delegate - Valencia - Spain - Thousands of people took to the streets...
22/02/2012 - Home Secretary attends training exercise in event of Terrorist Attack - United Kingdom - Home secretary Theresa May, London...
22/02/2012 - President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta visits United Nations - United States - Jose Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-...

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Mesa takes to the streets for presidential debate
An overflow audience wanting to listen to the Republican Presidential debate saw over a thousand people watch a 40-foot screen as the four candidates debated. Various protest groups par...
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Arizona
Republican candidates for President met in Arizona in what is believed to be the last debate of this primary season. In a race that has seen numerous front runners, Mitt Romney and Rick...
Protesters Clash at Republican Presidential Debate - Arizona
As Republican candidates debated in the Mesa Arts Center, protesters including undocumented students, tea partiers, occupy movement members and Syrian president opponents, shouted sloga...
Senegalese President Wade continues campaign Rally
Incumbent Senegalese President and presidential candidate Abdoulaye Wade greeted supporters during a campaign rally at the Guediawaye stadium in a suburb of the capital, Dakar.
Occupy LSX camp begins to Pack Up
Activists from the Occupy LSX camp started to strike camp after news filtered through of a judge's ruling ordering their camp be removed. Whilst some began to pack, others vowed to...
Occupy London Stock Exchange camp faces eviction
Occupy London Stock Exchange supporters were refused the opportunity to appeal against the High Court’s decision to allow the City of London Corporation to evict them. The camp was orig...
Thousands march in protest over police violence - Madrid
Thousands of Spanish students marched to protest against police violence, a day after security forces arrested 25 protesters including minors, and reportedly injured four at a demonstra...
OccupyLSX strike camp after appeal rejected
Occupy London camp that was started in protest over corporate greed and corruption outside St Pauls Cathedral in London faces imminent eviction and protesters have begun to pack up the ...
Students demand resignation of Government delegate - Valencia
Thousands of people took to the streets of Valencia to demand the resignation of Sánchez de León, government delegate in the city after a recent education cuts protest saw riot police b...
Anti-violence demonstration in support of Valencia students - Girona
About 300 students from the University of Girona demonstrated in support of students from Valencia after a recent education cuts protest saw baton charges by riot police leaving several...
Home Secretary attends training exercise in event of Terrorist Attack
Home secretary Theresa May, London Mayor Boris Johnson, and police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe all visited the site of a mock rehearsal held as a training exercise in the event of a...
Edlib residents protesters demonstrate against Bashar al-Assad
Protesters gather in Edlib against the Assad regime as bloodshed continues in Syria. Allegedly, 8,000 have been killed in cities and many villages destroyed as Assad faces increasing in...
 President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta visits United Nations
Jose Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, visits the United Nations Headquarters for a Security Council meeting today in New York City.
Small scale austerity demonstration in Athens
No more than 500 people from the public and private sector unions gather under rainy weather in the afternoon in Athens in front of the Greek Parliament to protest against the new auste...
Boris Johnson at the Operation Forward Response Drill - London
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, finds out how well the mock exercise went at the Operation Forward Response Drill, which looked at what happens when a terrorist bombs goes off in an und...
H2: The Jewish neighborhood inside Hebron
The Palestinian city of Hebron contains approximately 120,000 Palestinians. In H2, where more than 500 Jewish settlers live among 30,000 Palestinians. The Palestinian populations' ...
Mock bombing and security services response held in London Underground
Thousands of emergency service crews and actors have been staging a terrorist attack on an underground station in London. The operation was called Forward Response.
Teresa May at the Operation Forward Defensive Drill
Teresa May, Home Secretary, met with fire officers, police men, ambulance crew and dog handlers at the Operation Forward Defensive Drill at the unused Aldwych Tube Station.
Greeks demonstrate in streets despite heavy rain - Athens
Despite the heavy rain that fell all evening hundreds of Greek citizens gathert again to demonstrate against the new austerity measures in front of Parliament.
Peaceful anti-austerity protest in Athens
The worker's unions call for an anti-austerity protest in Syntagma Square. Meanwhile the left wing political party PAME marched, leaving from Syntagma Square.