Another protest against the dispute over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea was held in Beijing on Saturday, following a Friday protest. full story ![]()
BEIJING (AP) - With anti-riot vans and helmeted paramilitary forces, police in China's capital have smothered a southern district for a second day after a protest by hundreds of migrant workers. The move underscores Beijing's sensitivity over unrest fueled by anger over social inequality.
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A courtyard built for a new house on Shelter Island is at the center of a court dispute that pits the home owners against their landscaper.
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A Bahamian court will now decide the fate of private island that was a retreat of the late, famed designer James Wallace Tutt, following a five-year legal dispute.
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POLICE in Beijing are confiscating the year's hottest product: an annihilation-themed pyrotechnic known as "Tokyo Big Bang".
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State regulators want Wheeling Island Hotel, Casino and Racetrack and greyhound breeders to settle a dispute over how many races are held at the track.The Charleston Daily Mail reports that the...
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Police in Beijing said Tuesday that 13 people have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumors and disrupting public order by inciting a protest after a young woman's death earlier this month.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A group of Venezuelan students has held a protest outside the Cuban Embassy in Caracas, wearing chains and condemning what they call Cuban meddling in their country's affairs while President Hugo Chavez remains on the island undergoing cancer treatment.
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A federal small-business contract to remove superstorm Sandy debris from Fire Island has sparked another protest.
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Demonstrators and police were injured on Wednesday when a protest triggered by the death of a Beijing female sales clerk turned ugly.
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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official says Beijing plans eventually to land a survey team on uninhabited islands at the heart of an increasingly dangerous territorial dispute with Japan.
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