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...members of the anti-gay religious organization—including a 15-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy—finally appeared, entering the area the Cambridge Police had designated for their protest. From the other side, separated by two fences and a neutral zone, the counter-protestors began chanting loudly, drowning out the church group’s words and songs...
...broker a truce, Pakistan's government and leading opposition politicians continue to stagger toward a head-on collision. As Washington and its allies watch with mounting anxiety, the government has broadened its crackdown, requisitioning troops and silencing a leading TV news channel. A senior government minister has resigned in protest over the media clampdown, but President Asif Ali Zardari appears unwilling to negotiate under pressure. And his chief rival, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is pressing ahead with preparations for a lawyer-led protest march due to arrive in the capital of Islamabad on Monday...
...march. Section 144, a British colonial-era law that forbids any gathering of four or more people, has been extended to the North West Frontier Province - although armed militants seem exempt from the order. In the central city of Multan, police and intelligence officials impounded vehicles, forcing the protesters to make the journey on foot. Under a beaming sun, they were overcome by exhaustion, just a few miles out of the city. Travel bans have been imposed on three leaders of the lawyers' protest...
...that Obama's transformed America into a post-racial rainbow land, what will protest punk rockers Propaghandi have to rage about? I have a hunch they'll find something. (Middle East Downstairs; Sunday, 7pm; $17 at the door...
...situation was reminiscent of student protests in the 1990s, which had a tendency to devolve into tear-gas-shrouded street battles between police and looters looking to take advantage of a demonstration to smash shop windows and nab a few things. This time, however, the protest's leaders tried to defuse the situation and urged their followers to head back to the University of Nairobi campus for a prayer session. "The direction they are now taking is not the direction we wanted," said Walter Otieno, 28, a Strathmore University student and one of the protest's leaders, who had gotten...