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Riot police take positions during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday, June 18. Demonstrations began in response to plans to increase fares for Brazil's public transportation system but have broadened into wider protests over economic and social issues plaguing the country.

Just five days ago, a mild-mannered architect who was among the first to object to plans to raze central Istanbul's Gezi Park thought his group was on its way to becoming a vanguard of a movement against Turkey's leader that was far broader and more enduring than he could ever have imagined.

Turkey's PM has become the personification of the corrupt despotism of the regime he was elected to sweep away Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip ErdoAYan, has turned 'an insignificant protest in a scrubby little park into a national emergency.'

World powers will meet this weekend in Qatar to decide on how to answer a list of requests for help from Syrian rebels, a French diplomat said Wednesday.

Protestors burn a Sao Paulo state flag in front of City Hall, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Ghana's U20 Management Committee chairman George Afriyie has assured of the team's safety despite civil unrest in Turkey.

This is a Saturday, July 25, 2009 file photo of a woman as she protests against the political situation in Iran in Berlin.

The image was stark - a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul.

As the budding protest movement in Turkey against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to gain a foothold, Israel is watching the developments with some measure of ambivalence.

In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, seen during a meeting with Khalid Mashaal, the Hamas chief in exile, center, and Gaza's prime minister Ismail Haniyeh in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Performance artist Erdem Gunduz has become the new symbol of anti-government protests in Turkey after his eight-hour vigil in Taksim Square on Monday earned him the nickname “the silent man.” Images of Gunduz standing quietly in the large, open square, the cradle of three weeks of often violent unrest, have struck a chord with ... (more)

A protester raises her fist and shouts a slogan during a demonstration on June 9, 2013, on Gundogdu Square in Izmir.

Turkey has seen tireless civil unrest sparked by a police crackdown on a local protest over an Istanbul park.

New airborne laser scanning data has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating an entire bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.

Holly Selliger, an Occupy activist writing in The Portland Press Herald , believes the Turkish protest movement that began as a bid to save an Istanbul park could reverberate as far as the Pine Tree State.

The anti-government protests taking place across Turkey have not bypassed Antakya, down near the Syrian border.

When Yanos Gramatidis, the president of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, looks west from his homeland, he sees an economically ravaged European Union.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike.

Labor unions and political foes of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan rallied by the thousands across Turkey Monday, hoping to capitalize on weeks of initially small-scale protest to register broader discontent.

Police fire tear gas as riot police spray a water canon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline stand against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, near city's main Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.