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Afghans Hold Rare Public Protests Against Taliban Rules

The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about the arrests of dozens of women, and reported that two people were killed in protests organized to support them.

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In Herat, Afghanistan, on Monday.
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The Casting Call Was for Zombies. The Job Was Actually a Landlord Rally.

Housing debates often involve theatrics. But when a group of actors, many of whom are renters, discovered they had been hired to join a pro-landlord demonstration, several said they felt deceived.

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New York City actors who responded to a casting call asking for people to portray zombies found upon arrival that they would be marching to protest a proposed rent freeze on rent-stabilized homes.
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Anti-Immigrant Riots after Belfast Stabbing Leave City on Edge

In two nights of violence in Northern Ireland after a brutal stabbing, people were targeted because of their skin color, the authorities said.

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Attempting to clear protesters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday evening.
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In the U.K., a Violent Cycle: Hateful Attacks, Right-Wing Agitation and Riots

Two stabbings have fueled violent protests in England and Northern Ireland in the last 10 days, fanned online by right-wing voices. In Britain and across Europe, it’s a grim pattern.

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Protests north of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday in response to a stabbing attack two days earlier.
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Night of Violence Grips Belfast After Stabbing Attack

Cars and a bus were set on fire and families were driven from their homes after a stabbing caused tensions to spill onto the streets.

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Strife erupted in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday amid anger over a stabbing attributed to a Sudanese man.
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Violence in Belfast After Brutal Stabbing Attack: What to Know

There was unrest in Belfast and elsewhere after video of a brutal stabbing circulated online, amplified by far-right activists.

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The aftermath of overnight riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday.
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‘Clumsy Diplomacy’: Inside the U.S.-Kenya Feud Over an Ebola Camp

Hundreds of Kenyans have marched through the streets to oppose a quarantine facility that would be reserved exclusively for American patients.

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Protesters confronting Kenyan police officers at a demonstration against a U.S. Ebola quarantine facility in Nanyuki on Tuesday.
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