Riot News

The 70 UC Santa Cruz students who locked themselves inside Kerr Hall for three days left a "huge mess" and will face possible criminal or campus sanctions, a campus spokesman said Sunday night.

Investigators have concluded that bad food wasn't the primary cause of a fiery riot at a Kentucky prison in August.

Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers were separated at an island immigration detention centre after a riot left 37 injured, an official said Monday.

Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Sunday the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government's harsh methods as riot police prevented a demonstration by moderates taking place.

Bad food was not the primary cause of a prison riot in central Kentucky in August.

Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital Saturday, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

Early next year, for the first time in its history, Pennsylvania plans to contract with another state or states to board as many as 2,000 convicted criminals.

President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated.

Coimbatore: The crime rate has come down considerably in the West Zone while the fatal accident rate has gone up by 7 per cent during the period from January 1 to October 2009 compared to the corresponding period last year, Pramod Kumar, Inspector-General of Police, West Zone said on Friday.

FRANKFORT - Despite previous claims, investigators said Friday that bad food wasn't the primary cause of a fiery riot at a central Kentucky prison in August.

Dressed in riot gear, University of California, Davis police officers stand near the entrance of Mrak Hall on the U.C. Davis campus on Thursday, November 19, 2009 as student sit in protest of the U.C. Board of Regents decision to raise student fees.

By Graeme Hosken Crime Reporter A six-hour Pretoria robbery rampage in which several homeowners were attacked and two security guards seriously injured was brought to a bloody end when police gunned down a robber, critically injured another and arrested three others.

Greek riot police and anarchist protesters have clashed in the capital Athens during a march to commemorate an uprising in the 70s.

GREEK police have fired tear gas and detained more than 200 people as clashes broke out with stone-throwing protesters at a march to honour a 1973 anti-junta student revolt in Athens.

Greek police have detained up to 200 suspected rioters following clashes with anarchists after thousands of people marched through Athens to mark the 36th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising.

A crowd of Algerian football supporters attacked the headquarters of the Algerian subsidiary of Egypt's Orascom Telecom, smashing windows and destroying office equipment, the company said on Monday.

A key ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in a trial that has opened wide fissures within the country's fragile coalition administration.

Alcohol-related violence "just keeps going on and on", NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione claims.

French Budget Minister Eric Woerth said today he was horrified by a publicity stunt that attracted huge crowds hoping for a cash handout and led to serious violence when it was cancelled for safety reasons.

At least two inmates were killed and two others were injured in a riot at a prison in central Venezuela, officials said.