A curfew-like situation prevailed in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday as troops were deployed in strength to thwart a planned protest march by separatists to "formally" announce their anti-poll campaign.
Pro-independence protesters in southern Taiwan assaulted an envoy from rival China on Tuesday, pushing him to the ground while shouting that their island does not belong to Beijing.
Sporadic incidents of stone pelting at municipal and private buses were reported in Pune on Tuesday morning following the arrest of MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Ratnagiri.
Seven leaders of anti-government protests in Thailand promised to surrender to police Thursday after the Appeals Court dropped insurrection charges against them, their spokesman said.
The organizers of mass marches in which white-clad protesters lit up the streets of Mexico to protest escalating violence, were on Sunday to hand in their demands to the president.
The indefinite siege by West Bengal's opposition Trinamool Congress in front of the Tata Motors small car factory site in Singur on Monday caused a traffic gridlock on the national highway.
The Palestinian protesters massed at the fence expected tear gas and rubber bullets; what they got instead was a putrid yellow wind, Israel's newest weapon against West Bank demonstrators.
The separatists had decided to suspend the strike for three days to provide relief to students, labourers and other sections of the society who were hit by the shutdown.
Police banned demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Paris on Thursday but critics of China's human rights record stepped up protests elsewhere in the world to mark the start of the Beijing Olympics.
Jammu shut down for the eighth consecutive day on Thursday over demands that land be restored to the Amarnath shrine board, as the stage was being set for the first round of talks between Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra and leaders of the agitation.
Thousands of activists and farmers from around the world gathered in northern Japan for a major protest ahead of next week's summit of the G8 nations.
Violent protests erupted across Nepal Tuesday as the government hiked fuel prices from midnight in a desperate measure to keep parity with increased oil prices in India.
Tibetan exiles on Monday expressed solidarity with their compatriots inside Tibet by shaving their heads bald as a sign of protest against a recent Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters.
With situation in Tibet turning volatile, its spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has asked the Chinese leadership to stop using "brute force" and hold dialogue to address the "long-simmering resentment" of the people of Tibet.
