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2/22/2021 2:07:07 PM
Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city on Monday despite the ruling junta's threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military's takeover three weeks ago
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2/21/2021 2:03:52 PM
Many thousands of opponents of Myanmar's 1 Feb. military coup marched on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day when security forces opened fire on protesters
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2/20/2021 12:07:40 PM
Opponents of Myanmar's coup took to the streets again on Saturday with members of ethnic minorities, poets and transport workers among those demanding an end to military rule
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2/18/2021 12:30:55 PM
Big crowds returned to Yangon's central Sule Pagoda while many young people also massed at another favourite protest site, at an intersection near the main university campus
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2/18/2021 12:19:23 PM
In Barcelona, demonstrators lobbed objects at police and set barricades ablaze, with police firing foam rounds and charging at the protesters
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2/17/2021 6:20:24 PM
Some protesters set fire to trash containers, looted shops and clashed with police who used batons and foam projectiles on various occasions
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2/17/2021 10:03:08 AM
Protesters are deeply sceptical of the junta’s assurances, given at a news conference, that there would be a fair election and it would hand over power, even as police filed an additional charge against Suu Kyi
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2/16/2021 2:18:48 PM
'Our objective is to hold an election and hand power to the winning party,' Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun, spokesman for the ruling council
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2/16/2021 10:04:01 AM
Despite the deployment of armoured vehicles and soldiers in some major cities on the weekend, protesters have kept up their campaign to denounce the 1 February takeover and demand the release of detained leaders
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2/15/2021 10:15:33 PM
The shutdown comes after a day of protesters taking to the streets in defiance of heavy troop presence around Yangon -- although turnout was smaller than in recent days
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2/14/2021 7:45:13 PM
Soldiers were deployed to power plants in the northern state of Kachin, leading to a confrontation with demonstrators, some of who said they believed the army intended to cut off the electricity
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2/13/2021 10:22:01 PM
Protesters had gathered at a park in central Nicosia where they were surrounded by dozens of police in riot gear
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2/13/2021 10:40:31 AM
Protesters in Yangon, the country's biggest city, again congregated at Hleden intersection, a key crossroads from which groups fanned out to other points, including the embassies of the United States and China
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2/10/2021 5:08:15 PM
Hundreds of Thai protesters gathered in Bangkok on Wednesday to demand the release of four activists remanded in custody pending trial on charges of insulting Thailand's king, a crime punishable by 15 years in prison
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2/10/2021 4:48:28 PM
Police and protesters clashed outside Greece's parliament Wednesday amid student demonstrations in Athens and other cities against an education bill that would allow police to patrol university campuses
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2/10/2021 1:28:59 PM
Tsai and her government have offered strong support for the protesters, which considers Taiwan its own territory and has denounced the island for encouraging violence and criminality
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2/8/2021 10:14:06 AM
State media appears to have ignored the protests, but videos and reports on the demonstrations were being posted by social media users
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2/3/2021 1:29:34 PM
More than 250 people were detained during protests in Istanbul this week. Most have been released 29 are still in detention and 11 remain under house arrest, authorities said. In Ankara, 69 protesters were detained
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1/31/2021 4:24:06 PM
Kurdish security forces opened fire on pro-government protesters in northeast Syria Sunday, killing one person and wounding several others, a monitor and state media said, as tensions rise between the sides
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1/31/2021 1:08:59 PM
Russian authorities have mounted a massive effort to stem the tide of demonstrations after tens of thousands of people rallied across the country last weekend in the largest show has seen in years
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