On Inauguration Day, Black Lives Matter activists blockaded security checkpoints.
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Some groups have also blockaded ports and other oil facilities.
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In 2018, dozens of unemployed youth blockaded the phosphate mine,
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Protesters then blockaded the stadium where the meeting was held.
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Aid will be sent simultaneously to two villages blockaded by rebels.
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Bridges were blocked, ports were stalled, and railroad tracks were blockaded.
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The Panduro protest turned violent this week after a highway was blockaded.
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In others, polling stations were blockaded, and protesters clashed with the police.
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My wife has blockaded all political news since Election Day as well.
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A mile-long stretch of Collins Avenue was blockaded, leaving many civilians stranded.
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Six days later, Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran, Israel's southern shipping route.
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American patrols have then blockaded roads, forcing these Russian patrols to turn around.
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After a bumpy drive, we wandered around the blockaded path until 3 a.m.
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He had blockaded Qatar, only to push the gulf country closer to Iran.
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Protesters blockaded key thoroughfares and occupied the streets in the city for 79 days.
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The crude devices launched by Palestinians inside the blockaded territory have not been lethal.
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Mr Jathran has promised to reopen installations that his forces blockaded because of disputes.
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Last year, the two Middle Eastern nations blockaded Qatar with initial support from Trump.
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In response, Malaysia briefly blockaded the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur last week.
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Some of the buses were blockaded, others had their tires slashed, their windows broken.
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They had little chance to evacuate, as the area has been blockaded for months.
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Since January, eastern-based forces have blockaded the country's main oil ports, preventing exports.
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Ras Lanuf is one of the oil ports that has been blockaded since Jan.
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Hundreds have blockaded a major power plant and fought deadly battles with security forces.
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They've glued themselves to trains, blockaded major bridges, and chained themselves to government buildings.
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The headquarters of his party, the Forum for Democratic Change, was blockaded by the police.
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Protesters blockaded parts of Caracas on Tuesday and a national strike was called for Thursday.
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Gaza remains blockaded by Israel 11 years after Israeli forces withdrew from the coastal strip.
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The towns blockaded by pro-government forces are Zabadani and Madaya, near the Lebanese border.
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The city even partially blockaded cars from driving down the road in the early 90s.
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An Education Ministry spokeswoman said 40 schools were completely blockaded Monday, and another 80 affected.
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The city even partially blockaded cars from driving down the road in the early 90s.
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Saudi forces have also blockaded Yemeni ports, preventing vital supplies reached the country's besieged population.
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I slither past the blockaded East Gate and marvel at the graffiti and protest art.
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Zueitina is one of three eastern oil ports blockaded by Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG).
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Groups of Chinese road builders sat gloomily by their isolated campsites on the blockaded highway.
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On Thursday night climate activists in France blockaded the entrance to a warehouse outside Paris.
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In 2000 Tony Blair's administration was plunged into crisis when protesting lorry-drivers blockaded oil refineries.
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Protesters tried to push their way through into the hotel, where police had blockaded the entrance.
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The others have been unable to return ever since protesters arrived and effectively blockaded most entrances.
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In Guanajuato, they blockaded roads with burning vehicles to impede the movement of government security forces.
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In 1975, logging trucks blockaded his business on two of the busiest weekends of the year.
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So there is deposit coming from the blockaded countries into Qatar and there is vice versa.
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Freight traffic in eastern Canada has been stopped after campaigners blockaded a main line in Ontario.
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Gaza remains blockaded by Israel 11 years after Israeli forces withdrew from the small coastal territory.
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Their opponents, an Iranian-backed rebel group known as the Houthis, have killed civilians and blockaded cities.
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With tacit Indian support, they occupied key border crossings and blockaded fuel supplies to their landlocked country.
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"My favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot," she wrote.
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Yemen gets 90 percent of its food through ports that have been blockaded for over a year.
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They are surrounded in every single city that they are in … and they are blockaded from the sea.
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It has flourished amid Iraq's civil war but may struggle to maintain investment if it is blockaded economically.
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For over a year Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have blockaded Qatar over its contrarian stances.
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During the height of The Great Depression, angry farmers blockaded highways in protest of a decimated agriculture market.
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"The poorest Arabs are being blockaded by air and sea by the richest -- with our help," Riedel said.
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They are discussing reopening the nearby Backwater Bridge on state highway 1806, which has been blockaded since Oct.
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Protests by miners in Bolivia demanding changes to laws turned violent this week after a highway was blockaded.
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A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the armed Houthi movement in Yemen has blockaded Yemeni ports since Nov.
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He has blockaded Qatar, accused Iran of acts of war and encouraged the resignation of Lebanon's prime minister.
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The resulting damage — burned and looted businesses, blockaded streets, cars set ablaze — has left Haitians fearing the worst.
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The six young men had never left Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2300.
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I was told that it only went up when protests on the Colombian side blockaded roads, making it scarcer.
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That is because one is a Palestinian town inside the blockaded Gaza Strip and the other no longer exists.
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Since then, Israel and neighboring Egypt have kept Gaza blockaded and Hamas and Israel have fought three bloody wars.
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More than 2 million people are crammed into the narrow Gaza strip, which is blockaded by Egypt and Israel.
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A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen's civil war blockaded ports last month.
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Police accused him of inciting violence and blockaded his home in Kasangati, a suburb of the capital of Kampala.
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Now, after effectively being blockaded by the coalition for more than two and a half years, it faces famine.
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On Monday morning, much of downtown was blockaded by demonstrators peacefully demanding that the assembly select an interim president.
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While Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and the port of Zueitina had been blockaded, Brega remained open with reduced capacity.
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Hundreds of demonstrators, both for and against Park, have gathered outside the court, which was blockaded by police buses.
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Several major eastern Libyan terminals remain blockaded by the Petroleum Facilities Guard, a national force that is internally divided.
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The police blockaded the village where he was to speak, and it came under virtual siege from Yellow Vests.
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He has blockaded neighboring Qatar, accused Iran of acts of war and encouraged the resignation of Lebanon's prime minister.
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The police and authorities blockaded roads leading to the town and prevented protesters from gathering in its main square.
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With the exception of depots adjacent to its refineries, no other Total depots were blockaded and shipments were normal.
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In April 2015, during Harvard Heat Week, students, faculty, alumni and community members blockaded President Faust's office once more.
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In June, dozens of locals blockaded a Xinfa facility for three days to demand water before police dispersed them.
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Venezuela: The military blockaded a major highway to prevent opposition leaders from trucking in food and medicine via Colombia.
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"Imagine your biggest investment project is blockaded illegally," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his office in Yerevan.
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On Wednesday, protesters in Jakhira said they had blockaded production, accusing the NOC of failing to respond to local demands.
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Oil from Al-Majid is pumped to Zueitina, one of three eastern terminals that was blockaded until September last year.
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Eastern Ghouta, the only major rebel-held area near the capital, has been blockaded by Syrian government forces since 2013.
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These include free access for humanitarian aid to opposition-held areas blockaded by government forces and a release of detainees.
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Security personnel blockaded staff inside their offices late on Wednesday and conducted searches, staff members of the organizations told Reuters.
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Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar and blockaded the country earlier this month.
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Abbas' Palestinian Authority is also at odds with Hamas in Gaza, which has been blockaded by the Israelis for years.
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Their warships have blockaded Yemeni ports, helping to create a humanitarian catastrophe in which children are literally starving to death.
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Later that decade, 100,000 activists similarly blockaded CIA headquarters to protest U.S. backing for the dirty wars in Central America.
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Qatar was isolated, blockaded, and threatened with the building of a canal to physically isolate the state from the mainland.
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In an effort to stop the missiles, the Saudis and the Emiratis blockaded Yemeni ports, which intensified the humanitarian disaster.
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Two people died in Ixmiquilpan in clashes with state and federal police after protesters blockaded a highway and burnt vehicles.
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He has ordered the arrest of princes and business elites, given women the right to drive and blockaded neighboring Qatar.
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In 22, eight protestors who blockaded the fair were acquitted after the judge saw evidence of illegal weapons on sale.
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These include free access for humanitarian aid to opposition-held areas blockaded by government forces, and a release of detainees.
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Towns were being blockaded and isolation camps planned, as Venice's iconic Carnival was canceled and fear permeated Milan Fashion Week.
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I have freedom of movement, neither trapped in the blockaded Gaza Strip nor under military occupation in the West Bank.
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Also, according to relief officials, many of the Syrians in need of food are in areas blockaded by the Army.
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In 2014, protesters broke up a groundbreaking for the Thirty Meter Telescope and then blockaded the mountain, preventing any construction.
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Although large demonstrations have been peaceful, in some areas people have blockaded roads, burning tires and tree branches in protest.
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Blockaded from the outside by an enemy force, a siege lays bare the psychological factors of war and its indiscriminate cruelty.
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For much of the week, protesters have blockaded gas stations and some people have broken into stores to carry off merchandise.
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On July 4, miners represented by the union had blockaded access to a road used during shift changes at the mine.
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On July 31, a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher blockaded herself inside her 183 Ford Pinto on an MVP work site.
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It is shipped from the eastern port of Es Sider, which was blockaded by an armed faction between 2014 and 73.
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The Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it would open the Houthi-controlled port it had blockaded.
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So a few days later, I was blockaded from entering my house, at risk of succumbing to a literary shame avalanche.
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"Fasting has already been imposed upon us," Jihad, who lives in the blockaded neighborhood of Al Waer, in Homs, told me.
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All ports under Houthi control are still blockaded, and the majority of food that enters the country comes through these ports.
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Thousands of anti-government protesters blockaded the main terminal at Hong Kong's airport for a second straight night, temporarily stopping flights.
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Additionally, production in Libyan has fallen almost 21500%, according to Reuters, as production facilities in the country continue to be blockaded.
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In France climate protesters blockaded the entrance to a warehouses with hay bales and old household appliances salvaged from garbage dumps.
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When Israel and Egypt blockaded the enclave in 217, Hamas pivoted from ground to air, and sent rockets into Israeli territory.
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Jathran has said he is willing to work with the unity government and reopen oil terminals that the PFG has long blockaded.
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While parts of Homs and the Damascus suburbs have been blockaded for years, Madaya managed to survive relatively unscathed, until last summer.
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For months, tens of thousands have been blockaded by government troops in Madaya and surrounded by rebel forces in the two villages.
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They have blockaded its borders to cut off food imports and banks have been advised not to do business with Qatari institutions.
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Those blockaded by rebels are al-Foua and Kefraya in the northwestern Idlib province, both predominantly Shi'ite and loyal to the government.
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The main thoroughfare running through downtown Seoul was blockaded after the court's decision in anticipation of growing protests later in the day.
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Several tech buses, ones headed for Google and Apple campuses, were blockaded Thursday morning by demonstrators protesting the "techsploitation" of San Francisco.
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A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi movement blockaded ports last month after a missile was fired toward Riyadh.
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Federal police officers blockaded streets in protest against being forced to join the National Guard, saying they would lose pay and benefits.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian official has condemned reported U.S. plans to secure Gulf funding for major economic projects in blockaded, impoverished Gaza.
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Arguing that the next president should pick Mr Scalia's replacement, they blockaded the ninth seat throughout the final year of Mr Obama's presidency.
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Its land border with rump Ukraine is blockaded by activists agitating for its return and Ukrainian tourists no longer flock to its beaches.
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Inside an amphitheatre blockaded by a pile of chairs and upturned tables, over a thousand students are voting to continue a sit-in.
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Protesters in San Francisco blockaded several tech commuter buses with a pile of electric scooters on Thursday morning, according to local news reports.
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Soon afterwards, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates blockaded Qatar, accusing its ruling Al Thani dynasty of supporting Iran and Islamist terrorism.
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Monday's violence followed several weeks of mass protests in the Israeli-blockaded territory of Gaza, which is governed by militant Islamist group Hamas.
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Then they blockaded the Golden 1 Center, where the N.B.A.'s Sacramento Kings were scheduled to play the Atlanta Hawks at 7 p.m.
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Police subsequently shut down traffic on a 10-lane highway in front of the parliament's grounds and blockaded a bridge leading to the area.
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The action came a day after Greenpeace protesters blockaded the entrance to BP's London headquarters, demanding it end all new oil and gas exploration.
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Greece's finance minister on Thursday rejected the idea of additional pension cuts, while Greek farmers have blockaded roads to protest existing pension reduction plans.
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Subsequently, the West stood by as Russia blockaded Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov, starting in November 28503 and thereby threatening Ukraine's economy.
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Bolivia unrest: At least five people died in clashes outside an important fuel depot that had been blockaded by supporters of the ousted president.
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Libya's dollar earnings for oil sales, on which the economy is highly dependent, partially recovered last year after previously blockaded fields and ports reopened.
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Abu Yassin left Homs's besieged Old City neighborhood under a 2014 truce, only to be bussed to the northern Homs countryside, which is also blockaded.
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"There must be a halt to the bombardment of civilians by Russian planes, and sieges of blockaded areas must be lifted," Sabra said by telephone.
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In continental Europe, terror attacks targeted airports and tourist spots, while striking workers blockaded sea ports, grounded airlines and nobbled the air-traffic control system.
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For more than a decade, their 140-square-mile strip has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt, sharply restricting the flow of goods and people.
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The protesters gassed in Paris on Friday had reportedly blockaded the Sully Bridge, a major crossing of the Seine River not far from Notre Dame.
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Islamic Jihad accused Israel of delaying implementation of previous understandings brokered by Egypt in an effort to end violence and ease blockaded Gaza's economic hardship.
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The White House has faced criticism for not doing more to help Syrian civilians caught in the conflict, particularly in the blockaded city of Aleppo.
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Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman for ICRC Syria, tweeted that all trucks in the convoys had entered the blockaded cities, and offloading of their cargo had begun.
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In Libya, the National Oil Corporation opened three previously blockaded ports, allowing AGOCO, an NOC subsidiary that operates mainly in eastern Libya, to boost output.
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The Union Navy blockaded Confederate ports, thus Mexico's thousands of miles of coastline not covered by the U.S. Navy were valuable in supplying the Confederacy.
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That rhetoric has grown more common since 2017, when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other nations blockaded Qatar and broke off diplomatic ties.
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Palestinians in Gaza, an impoverished coastal enclave largely blockaded by Israel, suffer up to 18 hours of power cuts per day due to fuel shortages.
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The veterans blockaded the central bank to warn the government against curbing their benefits in an escalation of strikes against plans to cut state spending.
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In 2628 the Soviets blockaded all road, rail and water routes to the Allied-controlled sectors of Berlin, then surrounded by communist-controlled East Germany.
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There remain dozens of besieged enclaves -- including eastern Ghouta, a key region east of Damascus, where more than 250,000 people have been blockaded for four years.
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A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen's civil war blockaded ports last month after a missile was fired toward Riyadh.
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Libya has more than doubled its national crude production to around 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) since several previously blockaded oil ports were reopened in September.
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Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman for ICRC Syria, tweeted that all trucks in the convoys had entered the blockaded cities, and the offloading of their cargo had begun.
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And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our blood!
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In mid-1948, the Soviets blockaded Berlin in an attempt to squeeze the US, Britain, and France out of the enclave in Soviet-occupied East Germany.
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But by nightfall he was back, despondent after his third failed attempt this week to exit the blockaded Gaza Strip through the congested Rafah border crossing.
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Government forces have besieged rebel-held areas near Damascus for several years and more recently rebel groups have blockaded loyalist areas including al Foua and Kefraya.
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In the Olympic media cycle, much of the focus on Palestinian athletes tends toward the lack of resources for training, particularly in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Between 2013 and last September, these blockaded nearly all of Libya's main oil ports and tried to leverage that chokehold into ransom money and political power.
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Today's Iranians, who will most suffer whatever fallout there is from his death, remain economically blockaded, in a suspended state of siege in all but name.
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And so the buildings of that era were designed with multiple entrances and staircases to ensure that lectures could continue even if several entrances were blockaded.
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America's secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, visited Qatar hoping to broker a solution to the crisis that has seen the Gulf state partially blockaded by its neighbours.
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In Libya, a group guarding oil infrastructure said late last week it had reopened a long-blockaded pipeline leading from the oilfields of Sharara and El Feel.
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In his homily, the chief justice judiciously ignored the elephant in his own courtroom—the empty chair Senate Republicans successfully blockaded after Antonin Scalia's death last February.
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It said the situation in three places — Madaya, Fua and Kafraya — was a source of particular concern, saying they were besieged or blockaded by various militant groups.
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Islamic Jihad accused Israel of delaying implementation of previous understandings brokered by Egypt in an effort to end violence and ease the economic hardships of blockaded Gaza.
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Hamas won legislative elections in 2006 as the alternative to a corrupt Fatah, but today presides over a scene of utter despair in war-ravaged, blockaded Gaza.
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I thought, how cool would it be to have a band blockaded in this room during a throbbing grindcore live performance with bass coming through the walls?
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On Feb, 85033, an operation to introduce humanitarian aid into the struggling country, led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, was blockaded by security forces loyal to Maduro.
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But he was arrested again last month on charges of unlawfully organizing a June rally in which protesters blockaded the headquarters of the Hong Kong Police Force.
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Security forces "blockaded and locked the Supreme Court building from outside and hence the justices are without any food," Maldives' former Attorney General Husnu Al Suood tweeted.
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My table had a view of the "five points" intersection that truckers blockaded in June 1979 when skyrocketing gas prices revealed how precarious their suburban existence was.
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Hamas's armed wing still remains the dominant power in the territory of 2 million people partially blockaded by Israel and Egypt, which cite security concerns for border restrictions.
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Fishermen have blockaded the principal access point to the island of Chiloe for the past three weeks, largely isolating its population of around 140,000 and stranding some tourists.
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Its sole major port in Ukrainian territory, Mariupol, is now effectively blockaded; even before Sunday's incident, Russian interference with shipping was causing serious harm to the local economy.
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The protests are meant to call attention to the dire economic situation in the territory, which is blockaded by Israel and Egypt, with only essential supplies allowed in.
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And what could be more perfectly symbolic of that resistance than the sun — a symbol of male power in many occult traditions— being blockaded by the feminine moon?
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Activists on Tuesday disrupted BP's annual shareholder meeting, a day after protesters blockaded the entrance to its London headquarters, demanding it end all new oil and gas exploration.
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Activists on Tuesday disrupted BP's annual shareholder meeting, a day after protestors blockaded the entrance to its London headquarters, demanding it end all new oil and gas exploration.
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Activists from the group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants (LGS Migrants) blockaded the headquarters of Serco, the security firm in charge of Yarl's Wood with rotten food.
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In addition, Shangri-La Hotel and St. Regis that Trump and Kim Jong-un stay in will be blockaded for around 1 week, affecting the short-term profit.
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According to Raw Story, protesters on Monday evening blockaded a garage, preventing ICE vehicles and employees from leaving the facility, which is used to temporarily house detained immigrants.
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Zakaria, the president of the Rohingya Culture Center in Chicago, told CNBC that his parents are "blockaded" in Rakhine, a state of affairs affecting many U.S.-based Rohingyans.
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In 2018 that projection carries an additional security element, because the state has since June 2017 been blockaded by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
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The protest movement — now known as gilets jaunes, or "yellow vests" — has blockaded streets and highways, burned cars, and brawled with police in response to the price hike.
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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, would have his own motivations to bypass or block House proposals as he blockaded legislation pushed by President Barack Obama.
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The sentence triggered days of protests in which masked demonstrators first blockaded Barcelona airport and then set dozens of fires and barricades in the centre of the city.
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In 2015, a groundbreaking for the telescope project was broken up by protesters, who then blockaded the road up the mountain, preventing equipment and construction workers from passing.
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Roughly two million Arabs also live in Gaza blockaded by Israel under the rule of Hamas, which the United States and other countries have deemed a terrorist organization.
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He was on board a Turkish-owned ship, part of a 2010 attempt to send relief to the blockaded Gaza Strip, when it was intercepted by Israeli forces.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians began a six-week-long protest last Friday in tent encampments set up along the fenced border of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
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And demonstrators blockaded the rail lines that lead to a pair of oil refineries outside Seattle over the weekend, resulting in more than 50 arrests, according to organizers.
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The ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider were among the facilities blockaded from December 2014 until July this year by the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) over payment disputes.
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LAS BAMBAS: A Peruvian judge ordered three years of jail time for three lawyers representing indigenous villagers who have blockaded shipments from a massive copper mine, worsening the dispute.
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When Kurdish separatists barricaded Cizre, fighting to carve out an autonomous state, Turkish Special Forces rolled in and blockaded the town for 79 days, bombarding every building in sight.
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The background: On Feb, 23, an operation to introduce humanitarian aid into the struggling country, led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, was blockaded by security forces loyal to Maduro.
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A 64-year-old woman was arrested earlier this week after she reportedly blockaded herself into a 1971 Ford Pinto and prevented Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in West Virginia.
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iranian-backed rebels blockaded Yemeni ports in early November after a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted over the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
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" He said the Peruvian military had blockaded the street and "we have been threatened with arrest and imprisonment up to 10 years if we try to leave the hostel.
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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, would have his own motivations to bypass or block House proposals, much as he blockaded legislation pushed by President Barack Obama.
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South African media reported that a bus was set alight, vehicles stoned and roads blockaded by protesters calling for Mahumapelo to quit because of a failure to adequately deliver services.
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The protests have spread to schools, with dozens of high schools blockaded in Paris, Marseille, and Nantes Thursday in opposition to Macron's planned changes to the baccalaureate university entrance exam.
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Hotel chain Accor and motorway operator Vinci hit 18-month lows on Thursday as protesters blockaded roads around the country, while the threat of a broader transport strike is growing.
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On Sunday Haftar's forces repelled a counter attack at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf by an armed faction that previously controlled the terminals and had blockaded them for several years.
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In September, Ateiwish had appealed to a faction of Libya's Petrol Facilities Guard (PFG) to relinquish control of blockaded oil ports to Khalifa Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).
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Scarborough, once a U.S. bombing range, was blockaded by the Chinese in 2012, prompting the Philippines to launch its successful legal case in the Hague against China's excessive territorial claims.
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In the following year, Truman came to the military rescue of a blockaded outpost of freedom, West Berlin, and he came to the moral rescue of another embattled outpost, Israel.
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Zueitina is one of three previously blockaded ports in Libya's oil crescent region that reopened last month after forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar took control of the terminals.
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For instance, Ende Gelände (End of Story) blockaded German coal facilities in June, and the Sunrise Movement staged sit-ins at the offices of US House Democratic leaders last December.
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But Israeli officials privately welcome the Qatari largesse in Gaza, seeing a means of preventing humanitarian crises even if the money helps Hamas maintain its rule over the blockaded strip.
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People aged 63 to 29 make up a third of the population of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and partially blockaded Gaza strip and a disproportionate number of the many unemployed.
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The regime has systematically encircled, blockaded and bombed the remaining pockets of rebel control in the west, from the capital Damascus up through the city of Homs to the Mediterranean coast.
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The protest movement — known as gilets jaunes, French for the "yellow vests" demonstrators wear — has blockaded streets and highways, burned cars, and brawled with police in response to the price hike.
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For more than three weeks, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has been blockaded by its neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE, over allegations of Qatari support for terrorism.
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The protest movement — known as gilets jaunes, French for the "yellow vests" demonstrators wear — has blockaded streets and highways, burned cars, and skirmished with police in response to the price hike.
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Since June, three out of six GCC members (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) have blockaded a fourth (Qatar), cutting ties and trade until it stops backing Islamist groups.
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A second Rohingya man inside the blockaded area told Reuters the residents were being stopped from going to work at the local river jetty, where many carry loads for a living.
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Other workers took a somewhat safer, though (in a country where strikes are illegal) no less provocative measure to demand their missing wages: they marched out and blockaded a nearby highway.
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As someone who had never set eyes on Gaza, his assignment was to use those unfamiliar eyes to record life beyond the daily drumbeat of violence in the blockaded Palestinian territory.
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A degree of normalcy has returned to Lebanon in recent days as the protests that paralyzed much of the country have ebbed and roads that were blockaded by protesters were reopened.
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This time they were taking part in a car-free experiment in Hong Kong's Central district, where the protests erupted two years ago and blockaded the area from traffic for weeks.
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The cessation of hostilities agreement has been followed by more aid deliveries to opposition-held areas blockaded by the government, though the opposition says the quantities fall far short of needs.
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The closure of the road to Aleppo risked a much larger scale repeat of crises in Ghouta, a besieged Damascus suburb, or even Madaya, a blockaded town were residents have starved.
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The police blockaded the village where he was to speak, Grand Bourgtheroulde, banning most traffic, preventing Yellow Vests from reaching it, and screening those leaving the highway and entering the village.
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But while crowds in other countries blockaded and shut down coal plants, Karim and Arguelles are aiming for a more peaceful – and potentially powerful – means of uniting people against coal: religious faith.
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Jadhran&aposs group had previously controlled the ports at Libya&aposs oil crescent and blockaded them, costing oil-rich Libya billions of dollars, before losing them to national army forces in 2016.
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What this means is that protesters who need urgent medical care will need to leave the camps under their own power to find it — and the fastest route to care is blockaded.
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What should have been a serendipitous alignment of the stars for the artist was blockaded by a cavalcade of curators building the canon of modernism with an exclusive roster of male artists.
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A faction of Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) that has blockaded one pipeline since November 2014 and another since April 2015 said in a statement that they had agreed to reopen both.
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Residents from the area around the $1.4 billion Tia Maria mine began protesting on Monday and blockaded a section of coastal highway after the mine was granted a permit earlier this month.
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"My favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot," a 16-year-old student named Chondi Chastain tweeted at the NRA, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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This week, as part of Egyptian-mediated efforts to ease the plight of 210 million residents of the blockaded Gaza Strip, Israel has extended the area where it permits Palestinians to fish.
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As a descendant of the Armenian Genocide, a genocide perpetrated by Turks, there is absolutely no logical reason I would sneak into Turkey from Armenia (especially since Turkey has blockaded that border).
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Workers blockaded the entrances and exits to the parking lot of the city's Bureau of Environmental Services for 90 minutes while demanding hazard pay and improved protective equipment such as face masks.
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In his quest to subdue rebellious communities, Mr. Assad has blockaded rebels along with civilians, forcing them to agree either to leave or to surrender their arms and reconcile with his government.
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In one 2015 case, the targets were cartel foot soldiers who blockaded dozens of roads with burning trucks, torched gas stations and shot down a military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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In a statement released on its website, France's Ministry of National Education said that protesters had blockaded 176 high schools across the country, but that most schools were functioning normally by 11am.
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During the HRC's National Dinner, No Justice No Pride and a second queer activist group, Trans Woman of Color Collective, blockaded the entrance to the HRC fundraiser using bike locks and PVC pipes.
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The union has blockaded 11 highways in Oaxaca, a hotbed of dissent for protesters opposing President Enrique Pena Nieto's education reform that allows the federal government to remove teachers who fail evaluation exams.
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Turkey has also fast tracked a decision to approve the deployment of troops to Qatar -- part of an existing bilateral agreement but widely interpreted as a show of support for the blockaded nation.
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They have a potential combined capacity of some 600,000 barrels per day (bpd), but have been operating at a fraction of normal levels after being repeatedly fought over and blockaded for two years.
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Her career path as a high-profile endorser and motivational speaker was blockaded by broad-backed, husky-voiced East Germans later found to have been unwitting victims of a government-sponsored doping program.
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When the Brits blockaded German ports, keeping supplies from reaching German shores, U-boats turned their guns on unarmed ships in retaliation to try to limit the flow of supplies to the Allies.
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Nearly three weeks after a Saudi-led coalition blockaded Yemen's airports and seaports, cutting off much of the country from desperately needed aid, shipments have begun re-entering ports held by Houthi rebels.
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The opposition and Mr. Maduro are at loggerheads over the delivery of humanitarian aid, which Mr. Maduro's government has blockaded at the border with Colombia, a short distance from where their journey begins.
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LIMA (Reuters) - A Peruvian judge on Wednesday ordered three years of jail time for three lawyers representing indigenous villagers who have blockaded shipments from a massive copper mine operated by Chinese miner MMG Ltd.
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MOSCOW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Friday for all sides in the Syria conflict to use their influence to ensure that humanitarian aid was delivered to areas blockaded by militants.
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Eastern factions had effectively blockaded exports from the territory they control since last month, saying too much oil revenue processed through Tripoli was going to armed groups based in western Libya, including their rivals.
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They come amid Saudi's ongoing war against the Houthis in Yemen and a confrontation with fellow Gulf monarchy Qatar, which Riyadh and its allies have blockaded since June over its independent-minded foreign policy.
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He also said aid delivered in recent days to opposition-held areas blockaded by the government "is not enough to meet 10 percent of the needs, and nothing has entered most of the areas".
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The population living in the increasingly Israeli-occupied West Bank and blockaded Gaza Strip knew that their struggle would not end even if Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud Party were to be ousted.
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Thousands of demonstrators blockaded police headquarters on June 21 protesting against a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial in Communist Party-controlled courts.
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This is the country that saved the world from Adolf Hitler, rebuilt Europe with the Marshall Plan, blockaded Cuba to prevent Soviet missiles in this hemisphere and knocked back the Taliban after 9/11.
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It was one of a dozen blockaded campus sites in the country and the clear-out was accompanied by a government message that law and order would be restored as the exam period approaches.
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In Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt for nearly a decade, journalists say Hamas has grown steadily more uncomfortable with criticism since it seized full control of the territory in 2007.
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The NOC has blamed the attack on the terminals on militias led by Ibrahim Jathran, who blockaded oil crescent ports for several years before losing control of them in September 2016 to the LNA.
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Eastern forces have also blockaded oil exports in recent months, straining the GNA's finances and testing international commitment to uphold the role of the NOC (National Oil Corporation) as Libya's only legitimate oil exporter.
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In the thick of the city's rush hour, a row of protesters blockaded the stretch of Michigan Avenue to call out a museum trustee for his complicity in cuts to higher education in Illinois.
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The new line would provide 100 megawatts to Gaza, which currently gets a total of 120 megawatts from Israel, short of the 500 megawatts to 600 megawatts that Palestinians say the blockaded enclave needs.
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Refugees comprise most of the 2 million population of Israeli-blockaded Gaza, an enclave ruled by the Islamist movement Hamas which calls for Israel's destruction and is designated by Western states as a terrorist organization.
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Gunmen associated with the cartel ambushed state and federal police patrols, simultaneously blockaded dozens of roads across Guadalajara and in surrounding areas with burning buses, and even shot down an army helicopter with an RPG.
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Many Syrians in the north worry about how neighboring Turkey, which has already blockaded Rojava and occasionally bombs positions inside, might treat an enclave so thoroughly under the sway of the PKK or its allies.
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Frenemies again Israel and Turkey agreed to normalise relations, ending a six-year break caused by the killing by Israeli troops of ten Turkish activists on a ship carrying supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Sunday culminated in a mass role play in which kayakers blockaded a large vessel and unfurled banners emblazoned with "Stop Kinder Morgan" while pretend law enforcement boats circled around creating noise, waves and simulating arrests.
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From the actions of the students of Soweto grew a vast campaign led by college students in the United States, who built shantytowns on campus quads, blockaded buildings and disrupted speeches by South African politicians.
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Last month, the countries blockaded Qatar and issued a list of 13 demands, including that Doha close the broadcasting network Al-Jazeera, cut diplomatic ties with Iran and close Turkey's air base in the country.
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In one of the largest evacuations from besieged areas, 515 sick and wounded people were extricated from four blockaded areas — two opposition-held towns, Madaya and Zabadani and two government-held towns, Fouaa and Kfarya.
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TIMIKA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Limited access to the giant Grasberg copper mine in eastern Indonesia is expected to resume on Monday, its operator said, after hundreds of former workers blockaded the site and clashed with police.
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The National Association of Self-Service and Department Stores of Mexico has said in a statement that more than 79 stores had been looted and 170 were closed or blockaded in central Mexico, including the capital.
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It was crazy because we were lost as well, trying to find the Pussyhat Project and sing for them, but we were blockaded at Independence and 4th Streets and decided to just sing where we were.
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For years, she'd done all the things law-abiding climate change activists do: filed petitions, lobbied legislators, hosted speakers, wrote letters, blockaded refineries, and tried to block Shell from moving their drilling rigs into the Arctic.
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And she repeatedly sidestepped questions about reports that the Syrian government has blocked humanitarian food and other aid to many thousands of desperate civilians, including in a Damascus suburb, Daraya, that has been blockaded since 2012.
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The Saudis have also blockaded Yemen, with the stated purpose of keeping weapons out of Houthi hands, but that has also made it extremely difficult to get food and humanitarian assistance into an already poor country.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are holding a six-week-long protest in tent encampments along the fenced border of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, an enclave of 2 million ruled by the Islamist Hamas group.
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Police have seized a TV station's broadcast facility, government supporters have burned down radio stations, and for nearly the last year and a half, customs officials have blockaded shipments of newsprint and ink for print newspapers.
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In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, it also called for the lifting of sieges on blockaded areas among other steps outlined by the U.N. Security Council in a resolution passed last month.
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"They tell us we're Indians: we're the black race, the cursed race," said Jaime Pablo, a protest leader from a highland province, as he blockaded the plant supplying La Paz with gasoline, diesel and cooking gas.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a working-class corner of south Delhi, a nearly half-mile stretch of a wide, six-lane highway connecting India's capital city with a burgeoning suburb has been blockaded for 10 days.
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The Venezuelan military has blockaded a major highway link with Colombia to prevent opponents of the government from bringing food and medicine into Venezuela, a country gripped by life-threatening shortages and a deepening political crisis.
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Their village, Koe Tan Tauk, had been blockaded by soldiers and Rakhine Buddhists and they spent several days hiding in the forest before managing to sneak past the military one night to reach the water, he said.
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The strike over pay and bonuses adds to challenges confronting fuel companies, which are also facing protests from the "yellow vest" movement of citizens who oppose higher fuel taxes and have sporadically blockaded oil depots this week.
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Georgia 2008: The next year, very similar cyberattacks were used during Russia's war in Georgia, bombarding the country's web sites at the same time as Russian tanks rolled toward its capital and Russian ships blockaded its coastline.
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Zaanoun said her family took the decision to reconcile, despite their intense grief over the loss of their son, "for the sake of preventing bloodshed, for the sake of blockaded Gaza and for the sake of Palestine".
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Palestinians say funding cuts would especially impact Gaza, an impoverished, Islamist-ruled enclave blockaded by Israel and Egypt where half of its 2 million population rely on humanitarian aid and where the jobless rate is 46 percent.
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The agitation forced the cancellation of hundreds of trains and bus services through the state as protesters attacked train stations and blockaded key highways leading in and out of the capital city, with its 17 million people.
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The HNC, which includes political and militant opponents of Assad, has indicated it will leave Geneva unless steps set out in the U.N. resolution are implemented, including releasing prisoners, lifting sieges of blockaded areas and ending bombings.
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Jathran headed an armed group that blockaded the terminals in Libya's oil crescent for three years before being forced out by the rival Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar, the dominant figure in eastern Libya.
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A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen said Hezbollah militants smuggle weapons through Syria and then Iran before reaching Yemen by sea, even though the coalition has blockaded Yemen's ports since 2015.
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GAZA (Reuters) - A Qatari envoy overseeing the Gulf state's humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip said on Monday that he had proposed building an airport in the blockaded Palestinian enclave but had received no response from Israel.
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Thousands of members of a hardline Islamist party have blockaded roads for two days in major Pakistani cities to protest against the Supreme Court's decision, even calling for the assassination of the judges who made the ruling.
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It was aimed above all at ending the years-old Israeli-led blockade of Gaza, which has restricted the movement of people and goods in and out of the territory and blockaded its access to the Mediterranean.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Humanitarian aid will be delivered to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya and two blockaded villages in the northwest on Monday according to an agreement finalised on Saturday, two sources familiar with the details said.
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And rather than follow his righteous lead, what kind of nation becomes a pariah state in only a very few years, blockaded not only by the Saudis but also by the Emiratis, Bahrainis and even the Egyptians?
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators blockaded police headquarters on Friday as Asia's leading financial center braced itself for a third weekend of mass protests against an extradition bill that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into crisis.
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Last year, hundreds of protesters blockaded a major highway into the capital Islamabad over a minor change in a parliamentary oath, accusing the government of having committed "blasphemy" by softening the language of the declaration against Ahmadi beliefs.
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The PFG, which protects Libya's oil terminals and fields, has blockaded the major eastern terminals of Ras Lanuf, Es Sider and Zueitina for months, and promises earlier this year to reopen them have so far come to nothing.
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With a permanent presence of large coastguard vessels, China blockaded the Scarborough Shoal for more than four years but ended that in October 2016 at the request of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who said Filipino fishermen were suffering.
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Clashes in Libya on Sunday, however, halted the loading of the first oil cargo from the port of Ras Lanuf as the state-run National Oil Corporation prepared to restart exports from the ports blockaded for several years.
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Yemen's stocks of fuel and vaccines will run out in a month unless the Saudi-led coalition allows aid into the blockaded port of Hodeidah and the airport at San'aa, UNICEF's representative in the country said on Friday.
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Facing a United Nations commitment to start airdropping aid to civilians in rebel-held areas, the Syrian government eased some limits on humanitarian truck convoys on Wednesday and allowed one into a deprived Damascus suburb blockaded since 2012.
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The National Oil Corporation has ambitious goals of producing more than 900,000 bpd by year-end, but said it needs funding for its operating budget and the reopening of blockaded pipelines in western Libya to reach that target.
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Above, a Ukrainian soldier on the Azov Sea in Mariupol, Ukraine, a port city that the Ukrainian government claimed Thursday had been blockaded by a Russian cargo stoppage in the narrow Kerch Strait, the site of the attack.
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True, in June 2.9 the small desert peninsula was blockaded by Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia for a litany of alleged sins, which precipitated a $30 billion nonresident funding exodus from its banking system.
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Relations between Doha and Riyadh have been icy ever since June 230, when Saudi and allies including the UAE and Egypt blockaded routes representing 90% of domestic trade and stopped Qataris from visiting or even using their airspace.
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Across Canada, from the Port of Vancouver in British Columbia to Quebec, multiethnic groups of demonstrators blockaded the railways (and some roads) for almost four weeks in support of the Wet'suwet'en Nation's hereditary chiefs, who oppose the pipeline.
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The new line - known as Line 161 - would provide 100 megawatts to Gaza, which currently gets a total of 120 megawatts from Israel, short of the 500 megawatts to 600 megawatts that Palestinians say the blockaded enclave needs.
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Blockaded Gaza — a likely focal point of any future U.S.-endorsed Palestinian entity — has been sinking deeper into a humanitarian crisis in recent months, while cross-border violence between Gaza&aposs Hamas rulers and Israel flared again this week.
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Late last week, a group guarding oil infrastructure in Libya said it had reopened a long-blockaded pipeline leading from the oilfields of Sharara and El Feel, but a separate group had prevented a production restart at El Feel.
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For four years, Chinese ships have blockaded the tranquil lagoon rich in fish stocks and forced fishermen from the Philippines to travel further for smaller catches, reflecting tensions in the South China Sea where several countries have overlapping claims.
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The NOC has ambitious goals of producing more than 900,000 bpd by the end of the year, but says it needs funding for its operating budget and the reopening of blockaded pipelines in western Libya to reach that target.
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LILLE, France (Reuters) - French fishermen blockaded Calais throughout Thursday, halting shipping movements at France's busiest passenger port and a major entry point to Europe for British goods, in protest at losses inflicted by the practice of electric pulse fishing.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen's stocks of fuel and vaccines will run out in a month unless a Saudi-led military coalition allows aid into the blockaded port of Hodeidah and Sanaa airport, UNICEF's representative in the country said on Friday.
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Some people have even joked about being "blockaded" inside the world's richest country: a Twitter page called "Doha under siege" pokes fun at the prospect of readying "escape yachts", stocking up on caviar and trading Rolex watches for espresso.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - South America's biggest city and main business hub declared a state of emergency on Friday, suspending non-essential administrative services to save fuel amid a trucking protest that has blockaded major Brazilian highways for five days.
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In the thick of the city's rush hour, a row of protesters donning caps, gowns, and chains blockaded the stretch of Michigan Avenue to call out a museum trustee for his complicity in cuts to higher education in Illinois.
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JERUSALEM, July 22 (Reuters) - Israel will reopen Gaza's main commercial crossing and expand the Palestinian fishing zone off the blockaded enclave's coast on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.
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On Wednesday, Bend the Arc protesters again blockaded a road and disrupted a speech President Trump was giving to a conference on fracking downtown (that this event had nothing to do with the attack's anniversary was its own kind of insult).
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Around 70 people blockaded a distribution centre in the southern city of Toulouse and another 80 were gathered at a centre near the city of Lille, with workers forced to go home and operations at both warehouses halted, organisers said.
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Life is tougher than ever for most of the 2 million Palestinians locked into tiny, blockaded territory, where electricity is off most hours of the day, unemployment approaches 50 percent and the Islamic militant group Hamas rules with a tight grip.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a western Myanmar village, residents say, as religious tensions in troubled Rakhine state spread to a more ethnically mixed part of the region.
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Instead of paying the fine, they said, they would use the publicity the ruling had created to raise at least the same amount for mental health treatment in Gaza, a Palestinian enclave under Islamist rule that is blockaded by Israel.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian truckers association that says it represents 600,000 drivers called on Friday for drivers who have blockaded roads for five days nationwide to clear their rigs from roadways and allow transportation to begin returning to normal.
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For now, security will depend on an array of armed factions including the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), a semi-official corps that has blockaded ports and whose attempt in 2014 to export crude independently was thwarted by U.S. special forces.
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The price of fuel remains a sensitive topic in Britain where lorry drivers, angry at the price of fuel, blockaded refineries in 2000, bringing the country to a halt and forcing many forecourts to shut and others to introduce rationing.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters who had blockaded police headquarters in Asia's leading financial center had mostly dispersed by Saturday morning with some roads reopened for traffic as normal but it remained unclear whether further mass protests would take place.
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Rather than cling to the old ideologies that no longer reflect our new realities, the state of struggle continually demands new paths as the existing ones are blockaded by state, institutional, and corporate players that benefit from the status quo.
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The NOC has said it hopes to raise production to as much as 900,000 bpd by the end of the year, but that reaching this target depends on funding for operating costs and the reopening of blockaded pipelines in western Libya.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - In a working-class corner of south Delhi, a nearly 1-kilometre (half mile) stretch of a wide, six-lane highway connecting India's capital city with a burgeoning suburb has been blockaded for 10 days.
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Sheriff Paul Laney of Cass County said that officers wanted to calm things down after weeks of rising tensions and violent flare-ups, and that they were willing to pull back from a blockaded bridge where several confrontations had occurred.
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Polytechnic University, known as PolyU, became the scene of the most intense standoff of Hong Kong's nearly six-month protest movement when police blockaded the campus earlier this month, trapping inside more than 1,000 protesters who had occupied the complex.
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Around 70 people blockaded a distribution center in the southern city of Toulouse and another 80 were gathered at a center near Lille in the north, with workers forced to go home and operations at both warehouses halted, organizers said.
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It has been impossible for aid agencies to get food or medicine into Deir al-Zour, which is blockaded by the Islamic State; there, he said, plans for airdrops of relief supplies were abandoned because planes were certain to be fired upon.
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It also blockaded Macedonia's southern border in the early 1990s, at least in part leading to a change in Macedonia's first flag, which depicted the Vergina Sun, a symbol from the gravesite of the ancient kings of Macedon, which is in Greece.
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"The National Oil Corporation is keen to preserve production but at the same time it's a part of the problem," said Ghaith Salem al-Rooq, a negotiator from Zintan who took part in talks to reopen blockaded pipelines near the western town.
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The NOC blamed Ibrahim Jathran, who headed an armed group that blockaded oil crescent terminals for three years before being forced out by the LNA, and who appeared in a video posted on social media on Thursday announcing the start of a campaign.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - During a security lockdown inside and outside Singapore's five-star St. Regis hotel before the arrival of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday, only two journalists moved freely along the blockaded street, flanked by crowds penned back by police.
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The company said sales in the Middle East — its key international business — would be hurt by the recent escalation of hostilities in Yemen which resulted in the supply route to its Yemeni customer being blockaded and some reported slowing in the Saudi economy.
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Another former senior Administration official told me that the U.S. government spent four million dollars on cranes to unload relief ships at the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah, but the coalition, which had blockaded Yemen, did not allow the cranes into the country.
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Dozens of mainland students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong were so fearful they called police and fled by police boat from a dock near the Sha Tin campus on Wednesday to avoid having to use roads blockaded by black clad protesters.
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"We had something planned in the four towns, but for now it is put on hold to reassess the security conditions," he said, referring to rebel-besieged Foua and Kefraya in Idlib and government-blockaded Madaya and Zabadani near the Lebanese border.
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Libya, which is allowed to ramp up production as part of the OPEC deal, is close to increasing output crimped by unrest after a group of oil guards said they reopened a long-blockaded pipeline linking some of the country's biggest oilfields.
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Libya, which is allowed to ramp up production as part of the OPEC deal, is close to increasing output crimped by unrest after a group of oil guards said they had reopened a long-blockaded pipeline linking some of the country's biggest oilfields.
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Israel has blockaded Gaza for more than a decade, with severe restrictions on the flow of goods into the territory and people out of it, hoping to contain Hamas and also, perhaps, to pressure Gazans to eventually oust the group from power.
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He was active in protests against the pro-Kremlin government of Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was toppled as president of Ukraine in February 2014, and activists have described how he helped evacuate Ukrainian servicemen who were blockaded in Crimea after the Russian takeover.
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Democrats are still angry that Republicans, led by Mr. McConnell, blockaded President Barack Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick B. Garland of the Federal Appeals Court here, by denying him a hearing — and giving Mr. Trump opportunity to put Justice Gorsuch on the court.
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BEIRUT, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A convoy of several trucks carrying aid has entered a Syrian town blockaded by pro-government forces and two villages besieged by insurgents for the second time this week, a monitoring group and state media said on Thursday.
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Background coverage: The Venezuelan military has blockaded a bridge on the country's border with Colombia to prevent the opposition from bringing into the country tens of millions of dollars worth of food and medicine donated by the United States, Colombia and Venezuelans abroad.
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JERUSALEM/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Israel and Turkey on Sunday reached agreement to normalize ties, senior officials from both countries said, to end a rift over the Israeli navy's killing of 10 Turkish pro-Palestinian activists who tried to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2010.
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U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said Russia's proposal was limited and said the U.N. was ready with a much more comprehensive operation to take aid to the 250,000 civilians blockaded inside eastern Aleppo and to evacuate those who wanted to leave, including the wounded.
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But the agreement was held up by Turkey's demand that Israel open access to the Gaza Strip, blockaded since 2006; and Israel's demand that the Turkish government close the offices in Turkey of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist party-cum militant group that runs Gaza.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's state oil company said on Sunday it welcomed the "unconditional" reopening of blockaded oil ports following a deal between the U.N.-backed government and an armed force which controls key facilities, saying it would begin work to restart exports from the terminals.
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A group of oil guards in Libya said on Thursday they had reopened a long blockaded pipeline leading from the major oil fields of Sharara and El Feel, but an oil worker said a separate group had prevented a production restart at El Feel.
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"The Chinese will not occupy new features in the South China Sea nor they are going to build structures in Scarborough Shoal," Lorenzana told lawmakers late on Monday, referring to a prime fishing ground close to the Philippines that China blockaded from 2012 to 2016.
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When four Arab nations blockaded Qatar's airspace and shipping channels last month in a bid to force it to drop its maverick foreign policy and shutter its influential TV station, Al Jazeera, there was an initial burst of panic as some supermarket shelves emptied.
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On Saturday, a truck drove into a line of federal police, injuring five, during clashes at another blockaded storage terminal in Baja California, while local media reported that shots were fired during protests on Sunday in the city of Nogales, across the border from Arizona.
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Eight people were killed, a human rights official said, in the clashes outside a major fuel depot in El Alto, a working-class city in the mountains outside La Paz that had been blockaded for days by supporters of the ousted president, Evo Morales.
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The continuing crisis with the neighboring Gulf state of Qatar -- which has been blockaded and isolated by the Saudis and their allies on spurious charges that it backs terrorism and extremism -- also looks reckless for a man trying to project an image of cool-headed statesmanship.
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READ: Parents are begging Hong Kong police to let their kids leave a besieged university campus A hard core of about 50 protesters, some armed with weapons like bows and arrows, remained on the campus Wednesday, resisting surrendering to police who have blockaded the university since Sunday.
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When the Saudis blockaded their gas-rich neighbor Qatar in June 2017 shortly after Trump had visited Saudi Arabia, Trump went along for the ride despite that fact that Qatar housed the key US military base that was coordinating the war against both ISIS and the Taliban.
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Video PORTLAND VOWS TO CLEAN UP &aposDISGUSTING&apos OCCUPY ICE CAMP, CALLING IT A BIOHAZARD On Wednesday, more than a dozen activists stormed city hall and blockaded an internal stairwell for more than an hour after police rebuffed their attempt to rally directly outside the mayor&aposs office.
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Libya could raise output to 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) within a month and to 950,53 by the end of the year from about 290,000 currently, Sanalla said this week, but he said NOC would need new funds and blockaded pipelines in southwest Libya would need to be reopened.
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Campaigning to contain the rival power of Iran, he launched an ill-conceived war in Yemen, which has blown up into a humanitarian disaster of unspeakable proportions in which America is complicit as provider of weaponry and military support; he blockaded Qatar; he detained the prime minister of Lebanon.
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When European navies blockaded Venezuela in 1902 to compel Caracas to repay debts owed European bankers, President Roosevelt dispatched virtually the entire U.S. Navy battle fleet to the Caribbean Sea to shadow the European fleet and deter it from seizing South American territory in defiance of the Monroe Doctrine.
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And Republicans bet that the American people wouldn't care either way, so they blockaded President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 85033,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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She places its start at the moment of a famous failure: the Mayday Vietnam protest of 1971, when twenty-five thousand people blockaded bridges and intersections around Washington, D.C. A manual describing the demonstration's tactics allowed Nixon's Attorney General to summon the police, the military, and the National Guard preëmptively.
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After five years of civil war, the international community is no closer to solving a vexing problem: A vast majority of starving civilians are being besieged by the Assad regime, but humanitarian aid groups cannot enter blockaded territories without regime approval, and they must stage their convoys from regime-controlled Damascus.
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MBS had variously entered an ongoing war in Yemen that, according to the UN, had precipitated the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet; he had blockaded the gas-rich state of Qatar, a close American ally and the site of the most important US military base in the Middle East.
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"The island has been blockaded since 2012 but hasn't been built up so this would be new," said Ashley Townshend, a research fellow at the United States Study Centre at the University of Sydney and a visiting fellow at the Center for Asia-Pacific Cooperation and Governance at Fudan University in Shanghai.
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Second, given Yemen's urgent need for an infusion of commercial and medical supplies, it might be time to consider tapping Oman as an alternative hub for relief flights, especially if a comprehensive deal can't be reached soon for the use of the blockaded Hudaydah port, which is critical to the relief effort.
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"To see Israeli soldiers, inside Israel, firing live ammunition from a distance at unarmed Palestinian protesters inside the blockaded Gaza Strip, with the figures of injuries and fatalities that resulted from that — you do not need to be a legal expert to look at that and say this is outrageous, illegal, immoral and unacceptable."
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The posters of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and a map of the world look out of place on the walls, given the sense of isolation that pervades Gaza, a narrow strip of land hemmed in by Israel on two sides, Egypt to the south and the blockaded Mediterranean to the west.
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When the Pacific Patriots Network, a sympathetic coalition of militia groups from across the Northwest, mounted an armed demonstration early this month in which members with semiautomatic rifles and tactical gear blockaded the entrance to the refuge, Bundy and other occupation leaders said they were put off by their military display, which occasioned an emergency strategy meeting.
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Publisher's Weekly gave the book a starred review, saying that "Asher's work continues to combine the best of advanced cybertech and military SF." Ascendant by Jack Campbell Jack Campbell continues his new Genesis Fleet series with Ascendant, which follows former fleet officer Rob Geary and former Marine Mele Darcy as they work to protect the blockaded world of Glenlyon.
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The airlift began on June 26, 1948, in an ambitious plan to feed and supply West Berlin after the Soviets — one of the four occupying powers of a divided Berlin after World War II — blockaded the city in an attempt to squeeze the US, Britain and France out of the enclave within Soviet-occupied eastern Germany.
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But it would also be a catastrophe if Taiwan were blockaded or squashed into submission, because it is a pillar of technology (the source of more than 90 percent of the most advanced computer chips), a pillar of democracy and an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" standing in the way of any Chinese projection into the Pacific or toward, say, Okinawa.
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Today, Arab Israelis have a different legal status from the 350,000 Palestinians who live under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem, the 2.5 million who live in the Palestinian Authority-administered West Bank, and the 13 million who live in the blockaded Gaza Strip under the rule of Hamas, which the US and several other Western countries have designated a terrorist organization.
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Here 2000chan—or at least, 22007chan back in 247—wears its influences on its grubby sleeve: there are references to South Park, the Habbo Hotel raids (a 20073 incident where /b/ users blockaded the game en masse), Fight Club (Rules 22007 and 219: "Do not talk about /b/") and the cake from Portal, which you probably know by now not to trust.
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Politicians and civil servants are still haunted by events of 18 years ago next month, when what started off as an apparently innocuous, small-scale protest by UK farmers over the rising cost of fuel turned into a full-blown crisis within a matter of days when an oil refinery was blockaded, gas pumps ran dry across the country, supermarket shelves were emptied by panicking citizens and hospital operations were canceled.
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According to the AP, the two Gulf countries were hoping to use Broidy's leverage with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in order to turn his administration's policies against Qatar, another Gulf country the two nations have blockaded.
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Meeting up with our driver, we were taken a gridlocked mile to a blockaded street (though motorcycles zigzagged through) and, my camera at the ready now, we stepped out into a stream of people passing kiosks selling firecrackers, chewing tobacco, incense, plastic figurines of Vishnu and Ganesh, and swamis with painted faces offering to pose for 50 rupees, about 75 cents, toward broad steps of the ghat, a word derived from the Sanskrit term for embankment.
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