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Anti-austerity protests rock Bosnia
Unemployed workers in Bosnia-Herzegovina set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest the country has seen since the end of the 1992-95 war.
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Burgos and Gezi Square: contradiction?
Protesters in Burgos, Spain, defeated a redevelopment plan that included replacing traffic lanes with greenways—a contrast to the struggle to save Istanbul's Gezi Park.
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Ukraine, Thailand, Italy: hope and contradiction
In Ukraine, Thailand and Italy, riot police stood down and ceded control of urban space to protesters—yet the demonstrators in all three countries have problematic politics.
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Neo-Nazi pogrom targets Warsaw squatters
On Poland's Independence Day, masked far-right militants rioted in central Warsaw, attacking the city's bohemian district and two squatter buildings run as community centers.
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Romania: protest wave against mega-mine
Thousands of Romanians have been occupying Bucharest to protest plans by Canadian firm Gabriel Resources to establish Europe's biggest open-pit gold mine at Rosia Montana.
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Next: Free Catalonia?
Over one and a half million Catalans formed a human chain stretching 400 kilometers across the territory to press demands for independence—despite Madrid's intransigence.
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Sweden: Sámi protest British mining company
Swedish police have repeatedly broken up a protest occupation by Sámi indigenous people against iron mining in a crucial reindeer herding area above the Arctic Circle.
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Greece: anti-fascist activist on trial
Anti-fascist militant Savvas Michael-Matsas went on trial in Greece, charged with "libellous defamation" in a case brought by members of the far-right Golden Dawn party.
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Monastic donnybrook rocks Greek abbey —again
In the latest irruption of the stand-off at Greece’s Esphigmenou Monastery, ultra-Orthodox rebel monks reportedly hurled petrol bombs at police who came to evict them.
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France: whither the hijab intifada?
The on-again/off-again Parisian intifada has exploded once more—this time over the arrest of a man whose wife was ticketed for wearing a face veil in the suburb of Trappes.
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Srebrenica: 18 years later, quest for justice goes on
A jurist at The Hague warns that the acquittal of Bosnia war crimes defendants sets a precedent for the "military elite of prominent countries"—including the US and Israel.
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‘Carlos the Jackal’ loses French conviction appeal
Ilich RamÃrez Sánchez AKA “Carlos the Jackal” lost an appeal of his conviction for taking part in four bombings in France. He has spent eight years in solitary confinement.