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Police keep watch in Sweden after a riot in February. Reuters

Could Malmo become Sweden’s Chicago

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Malmo – When you wander in the Sweden Möllevången district, you may not quickly notice that the southern city is known as one of the international hot spots of organized crimes. Young women hold their babies’ carriages, and elderlies sit in the sun, while the...

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Followers of Iraq’s Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are seen in the parliament building after they stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government, in Iraq April 30

Al Sadr Secretly Flies to Iran, Shocking Supporters

by Hamza Mustafa | May 3, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad- Amidst the rising political crisis in Iraq, Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shi’ite cleric, managed to throw his Green Zone protesting supporters off guard by heading on Tuesday secretly to Tehran. Iraqi sourced confirmed that al-Sadr had left the...

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A resident reacts as he is detained by police during a protest against the death of a man in the Pavao-Pavaozinho slum, in the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, on April 22, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Landau)

Violence erupts in Rio slum near Olympic venues

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 23, 2014 | World

Rio De Janeiro, AP—A Rio de Janeiro slum erupted in violence late on Tuesday following the killing of a popular local figure, with angry residents setting fires and showering homemade explosives and glass bottles onto a busy avenue in the city’s main tourist...

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Firemen extinguish a blaze at a nursery school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm, Sweden for a fourth consecutive night on May 24, 2013. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstand)

Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2013 | World

Stockholm, Reuters—A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze. The...

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Plain-clothed Bangladeshi police brandish sticks as they attempt to break up demonstrating garment workers following the collapse of an eight-storey building, in Dhaka on April 26, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/STR)

Anger on Streets as Bangladesh Building Toll Passes 300

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 26, 2013 | World

Dhaka, Reuters—Bangladesh textile workers vented their anger on Friday, burning cars and clashing with police, as the death toll passed 300 following the collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands. Miraculously rescuers...