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| Street clashes erupt as Hong Kong police crack down on protesters | |  By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of pro-democracy activists clashed with police in running scuffles in the gritty district of Mong Kok early on Saturday in a bid to reclaim part of one of the largest and most volatile protest sites in Hong Kong. After hours of tense face-offs, with police showing relative restraint at first, hundreds of riot police baton-charged the crowds with shields, pepper spraying and wrestling a string of protesters to the ground in chaotic scenes. ...
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| Man dies after shooting at Mexican consulate, other sites in Texas capital | | | By Jim Forsyth and Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A man apparently upset about U.S. immigration policy was fatally shot early on Friday after firing more than 100 rounds of ammunition at the Mexican consulate, a U.S. federal courthouse and police headquarters in the Texas capital, police said. The suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was an Austin man in his 50s who had a criminal history, police said. ... |
| Ferguson police block cleanup brigade from entering damaged area | |  By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Police on Friday blocked a cleanup brigade from entering a thoroughfare in Ferguson, Missouri, where businesses were damaged in this week's racially charged rioting, as protests erupted outside retail stores in New York and other cities on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Ferguson's West Florissant Avenue is home to a Walgreen Co store and other stores that were looted or burned on Monday after a decision by a grand jury not to indict a white police officer in the August shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. ...
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| Indian among three foreign workers kidnapped in Nigeria | | | YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Three expatriate construction workers were kidnapped on Friday in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the delta region, a security forces spokesman said. The men, two Pakistani and one Indian, were seized at Emakalakala town in the Ogbia council area, a few miles from their construction base. A witness who declined to be named for fear of reprisals said he saw sporadic shooting in the air before the men were pulled into a waiting speed boat. ... |
| Three dead in attack and Islamist protests in Egypt | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Three people including an army general were killed and at least 26 wounded on Friday in a drive-by shooting and violence that erupted at Islamist protests around Egypt, security sources and health officials said. Police were out in force for the demonstrations, organised by a hardline Salafi group calling for the ousting of the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ex-army chief who led last year's overthrow of elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. ... |
| Bombs, gunfire kill 35 at crowded mosque in Nigeria's Kano | | | By Nnekule Ikemfuna KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the central mosque in north Nigeria's biggest city Kano, killing at least 35 people on Friday, witnesses and police said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. "These people have bombed the mosque. I am face to face with people screaming," said Chijjani Usman, a local reporter who had gone to the mosque in the old city to pray. ... |
| At least 35 people killed, many wounded in Nigerian mosque attack | | | LONDON (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed and many wounded in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Nigeria's biggest northern city Kano on Friday, the deputy police commissioner told reporters. Gunmen set off three bombs and fired on worshippers at the central mosque, witnesses said, in an assault that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. (Reporting by Nnekule Ikemfuma, Writing by Julia Payne; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| Bombs, gunfire at crowded central mosque in northern Nigeria's Kano | | | By Nnekule Ikemfuna KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen set off three bombs and fired on worshippers at the central mosque of north Nigeria's biggest city Kano for Friday prayers, witnesses said, an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. It was not immediately possible to determine a reliable death toll in the chaotic aftermath of the attack but the area had been densely packed with worshippers. A police spokesman in Kano declined to make any immediate comment. "These people have bombed the mosque. ... |
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