He prepared two firebombs in the yard of one house, sprayed graffiti on some outside walls then threw the firebombs into two homes.
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No one was injured, and the firebombs did little damage.
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Later, two firebombs were thrown at a Jewish chapel in Malmo.
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Video showed at least one person tossing homemade firebombs at the embassy.
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Some of them threw firebombs at a police station in Tsuen Wan.
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Protesters threw firebombs and police officers fired multiple rounds of tear gas.
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The firebombs did little damage to the building and hurt no one.
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Firebombs worked against the tanks, but the army couldn't make them fast enough.
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Officers said that protesters had attacked them with firebombs, logs, feces and debris.
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The military said Palestinians had thrown explosive devices and firebombs towards Israeli troops.
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Another group threw improvised firebombs and stones at a police van, they said.
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The IDF also claimed that "rioters" were throwing firebombs and explosives into Israeli territory.
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Demonstrators built barricades and flung firebombs, bricks, and other objects back at law enforcement.
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More than a dozen men thew firebombs at the synagogue shortly after 10 p.m.
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On Wednesday night, some threw firebombs at the home of Theodora Tzakri, a lawmaker.
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Some demonstrators, wearing masks to protect themselves from tear gas, fought back with firebombs.
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Throw in some firebombs and a few chemical warheads, just to cover the bases.
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Or they were going around chasing the kids with the firebombs, trying to interview them.
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"It was like the sound of rain, the sound of firebombs dropping," Keiko Utsumi remembers.
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The Palestinians hurled rocks and firebombs and set the vehicle ablaze, the military said Tuesday.
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The exception was a small group of hooded youths who hurled firebombs at police officers.
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This argument isn't limited to shootings, punches or firebombs; it encompasses words and beliefs too.
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The military said troops had fired at "rioters who hurled firebombs and rocks at the soldiers".
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The IDF said Palestinian protesters targeted the fence and Israeli soldiers with explosive devices and firebombs.
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There are credible reports of Palestinian demonstrators throwing rocks and firebombs (Molotov cocktails) toward Israel forces.
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To the north, past the bunker, at least two protesters throw homemade firebombs at the Israelis.
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Most of the firebombs were seen exploding on the ground inside, setting a nearby tree on fire.
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Improvised explosive devices and firebombs were used in the attacks in seven provinces of Thailand from Aug.
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He said he had seen protesters throw 10 to 20 firebombs to deter the police from advancing.
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The IDF said about 16,000 Palestinians had gathered along the fence, with some hurling grenades and firebombs.
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When someone knows they're going home, they have no reason not to throw firebombs at everybody around them.
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Authorities fired rubber bullets and tear gas in clashes with demonstrators armed with firebombs and bows and arrows.
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But the occupiers fought back with dozens of firebombs and set barricades ablaze, forcing the police to retreat.
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The IDF says some 16,000 Palestinians protested along the border on Friday, with some hurling grenades and firebombs.
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The military said Palestinians hurled "explosive devices and firebombs" and in one instance a grenade at Israeli soldiers Friday.
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Protesters hunkered down and barricaded themselves against police, flinging firebombs and debris and even firing arrows at riot police.
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Most of the Palestinian protesters are unarmed, but some have lobbed firebombs and attempted to break through the fence.
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After a march by tens of thousands, some protesters gathered around the main government offices, hurling rocks and firebombs.
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Protesters, who clashed with police across nine districts in Hong Kong, set up fires and barricades and threw firebombs.
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The Israeli military said in a statement: "Rioters hurled firebombs and explosive devices at the security fence and Israeli troops".
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Protesters have used slingshots to fire marbles at police, shone lasers at them and at times thrown bricks and firebombs.
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Black-clad activists, mostly students, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls, and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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Some in the crowd threw firebombs and an explosive device and tried cross into Israel, according to the Israeli military.
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Protesters hurled bricks and firebombs at the police, and at one point an armored police vehicle was engulfed in flames.
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It said some 7,000 Palestinians took part in the demonstrations, who it said threw firebombs and explosive devices towards troops.
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It does when Negan shows up at Alexandria, having escaped the zombie horde, and equipped with what appear to be firebombs.
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And when things threaten to get too tranquil, firebombs detonate amidst clusters of Tao Tei, the carnage both gnarly and beautiful.
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The protests often culminate in rocks or firebombs thrown at the Israeli side, and Israeli tear gas and gunfire in response.
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One clash was violent: Several officers were hurt as masked youngsters throwing firebombs fought with the police, who used tear gas.
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Protesters were armed with slingshots, iron rods and firebombs and were using them on police Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
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Once more I die, having exhausted my firebombs bringing Gundyr to the brink of defeat but failing to deliver a final blow.
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Recent standoffs on university campuses have resembled trench warfare, with officers firing tear gas and protesters volleying with firebombs and other projectiles.
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In its coverage of the July primary debates, The New York Times wrote that the moderates were "throwing firebombs" at the progressives.
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Nearer the fence, young men burned tires, crept up with wire cutters or improvised firebombs — and presented Israeli snipers with easy targets.
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The state of play: Though the march was largely peaceful, some protestors threw firebombs at police and vandalized Chinese banks and shops.
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The Israeli police said rioters threw rocks and firebombs and set off fireworks in the direction of the security forces, endangering them.
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The military, putting the number of demonstrators at about 1,700 and the injured at six, said troops faced firebombs, rocks and burning tires.
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The demonstrations were largely peaceful, but after the vote, small groups of protesters clashed with police, throwing firebombs and setting up flaming barricades.
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The teenagers appeared to be innocent bystanders who were hit while the military tried to halt Palestinians who were throwing stones and firebombs.
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Students wearing gas masks created improvised firebombs out of bottles of alcohol and hurled them onto the street while police fired tear gas.
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The Israeli military said rioters had hurled grenades, firebombs and rocks and in two cases, Palestinians briefly crossed the fence into Israeli territory.
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After the initial release of the "sting" videos, in July of last year, clinics in Illinois, Louisiana and California were attacked with firebombs.
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On Wednesday night, protesters outraged by the shooting poured into the streets, vandalizing shops, blocking roads and throwing firebombs into a police station.
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Over the weekend, anti-government protesters attacked the legislature, occupied the airport, tossed firebombs at police, vandalized metro stations and lit street fires.
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The Gaza protesters set tires ablaze, sending up thick plumes of black smoke, and hurled firebombs and stones toward Israeli troops across the border.
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Black-clad activists at campuses wielded bows and arrows, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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That some protesters have resorted to violence, including firebombs and bats, can only be condemned, as must be the excessive force of the police.
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Police have fired tear gas and water cannons Sunday at protesters who threw firebombs as the protests in Hong Kong escalated into more violence.
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Palestinian protesters rally at the Gaza-Israel border, hurling stones and firebombs, with some militants trying to breach the frontier, according to the Israeli military.
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The police, outnumbered, looked the other way as angry protesters set the embassy ablaze with firebombs, climbed the fences and vandalized parts of the building.
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"Rioters approached the security fence and hurled explosive devices, grenades, firebombs and rocks and tried to light the security fence on fire," the statement said.
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But their presence quickly stoked anger among right-wing groups, who massed around the migrants Thursday night, throwing small firebombs, shouting slogans and threatening assaults.
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The airstrikes came in response to recent terrorist activities along the border fence by Hamas, according to the Israeli military, including throwing firebombs at Israeli soldiers.
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But in 1979, in the midst of her home country's revolution, Iranian students in Los Angeles stormed another property she owned in the area, throwing firebombs.
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Another army video montage showed protesters hurling stones and firebombs and rolling burning tires at the fence, apparently in an effort to set it on fire.
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What followed was a night in which angry youths in three Nantes neighborhoods threw firebombs and burned eight buildings and some 30 cars, the authorities said.
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In a reprise of the clashes that have grown common, protesters threw firebombs at the police and officers fired multiple rounds of tear gas at demonstrators.
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Hooded youths hurled bottles, beer cans and on occasion makeshift firebombs on the fringes of marches against the law that will make hiring and firing easier.
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On Wednesday, an angry crowd numbering nearly 1,000 besieged an army camp hosting police officers sent to Lesbos, with some residents wielding homemade firebombs and shotguns.
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Some protesters gathered around the local government's headquarters, where they threw bricks and firebombs as the police responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons.
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The Israeli military said that the demonstrators, numbering around 15,000, had been "hurling rocks, explosive devices, firebombs and grenades" at Israeli troops and at the fence.
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"The rioters are burning tires and are hurling rocks, explosive devices, firebombs and grenades at IDF troops and the security fence," according to an IDF statement.
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Thousands of officers protested across the country in October after two officers were seriously burned by firebombs in Viry-Châtillon, a struggling suburb south of Paris.
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The police said that a bag in the vehicle contained knives, stun grenades and materials for firebombs, and that the suspects had been heading for Jerusalem.
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Yet under the international standards for policing demonstrations, even the use of rocks or firebombs does not justify lethal force, absent an imminent threat to life.
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Didn't the use of biplanes to drop firebombs on a civilian populace precede the aerial bombing at Guernica (April 26, 1937) by more than a decade?
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Hamas and the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad have launched dozens of rockets, mortar shells and kites carrying firebombs over the Gaza security fence in recent weeks.
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Investigators found nearly 4,000 firebombs on the campus over the past two days, as well as other explosive items and bottles of corrosive liquids, the police said.
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The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq said it had received credible allegations of protesters being targeted with hunting rifles, stones and firebombs on the nights of Feb.
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Protests during the weekend's general strike briefly turned violent on Sunday when hooded youths pelted the police with firebombs and stones outside the Parliament building in central Athens.
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Before the war's end, firebombs dropped by B-2400s killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens in more than 2200 cities before nuclear bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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On Tuesday, 15 assailants wielding firebombs and gas canister bombs attacked a police precinct in an eastern Athens suburb and left a police guard with minor head injuries.
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He is a poet of passionate precision who tells us that "biplanes / From an airfield near town, left over from WWI, dropped firebombs […]" on Tulsa during the riot.
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The police said protesters threw as many as 19973 firebombs over the weekend, and displayed one they seized — made from a Corona Extra beer bottle — at a news conference.
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An Israeli military spokesman said troops guarding the border on Friday were faced with more than 6,000 demonstrators at several points along the fence, some hurling explosive devices and firebombs.
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Wednesday: As China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule, scenes of pageantry in Beijing were met with firebombs and mass protests in Hong Kong, where we reached Javier Hernández.
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In a statement, the military said dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks, firebombs and pipe bombs at troops who deployed in the village and that they responded with "riot dispersal means".
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Israeli officials point to the tactics employed by the protesters, including rolling burning tires or sending kites rigged with homemade firebombs toward Israel, to justify their use of deadly force.
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The police force later used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray against protesters on the front lines, and said in a statement that some of them had thrown firebombs.
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Thousands of Palestinians continue to attend weekly Friday protests along the border that often include the hurling of grenades and firebombs and efforts to breach the fence, according to the military.
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The Israeli military said that confrontation came after days of clashes in Hebron, with Palestinians throwing stones and firebombs at forces near the Jewish settlement in the heart of the city.
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Protesters reported seeing a small number of armed men at the demonstrations, and a larger number of people hurling rocks, including with slingshots; throwing firebombs; and launching kites with incendiary materials.
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Some protesters have hurled firebombs, tried to breach the fence or sent flaming kites over the border to burn nearby Israeli farmland, undermining Hamas&apos claims that the protests were entirely peaceful.
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NEWTON'S LAW on Acorn TV. Josephine Newton, a righteous urban solicitor played by Claudia Karvan, returns to her former role as a formidable barrister after an angry pyromaniac client firebombs her office.
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Recap: Thursday marked a change in the materials used on the ground, as black-clad activists, mostly students, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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Dareen Tatour, 36, posted to Facebook and YouTube a video of herself reading out her poem "Resist, My People, Resist", accompanying footage of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers.
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Vigilante vignerons have raided the offices of two big wine distributors and dumped red wine into the streets, and a group of wine growers threw firebombs at one of France's largest wine brokerages.
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But for Israelis, the weekly demonstrations — which are accompanied by firebombs and burning kites dispatched into Israeli fields and breakthroughs by small groups of Hamas members into Israeli territory — are an intolerable threat.
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Vandalism in Chile Already there has been recent violence in Santiago, Chile's capital, where at least five churches were recently attacked -- some with firebombs -- according to the country's Interior sub secretary, Mahmud Aleuy.
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The Israelis released surveillance video clips late in the day that they said showed attempts to cut openings in the barrier, and military officials said that some demonstrators were throwing firebombs at Israeli soldiers.
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Roughly 2,500 Palestinians rolled burning tires and hurled firebombs and rocks at police in several West Bank cities, and another 3,500 clashed with soldiers along the security fence in Gaza, the Israeli army said.
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In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians set fire to tires and threw stones and firebombs at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and, in a few instances, live fire.
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The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Friday the suspects detained in the Moscow region were planning to throw firebombs at administrative buildings and attack police over the weekend in order to provoke mass riots.
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As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 93 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
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ATHENS — Rioting broke out here and in Thessaloniki late Thursday, as masked youths at barricades pelted the police with homemade firebombs after rallies for the 10th anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager.
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REZZ played some dark bassy ambience, before Josh Pan threw down a chest-caving set, and then Mija took to the stage to pay tribute to the city's history with a few acid techno firebombs.
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While thousands of protesters have demonstrated peacefully in tent encampments set up at five points along the border, some have hurled stones and firebombs and have defied Israeli warnings to stay away from the fence.
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The emblem of the Beach Club was a gas mask, because the throngs of riot police in Darth Vader masks lobbed tear gas canisters at students whose weapons were moral force, rocks and homemade firebombs.
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Dareen Tatour, 36, posted on Facebook and YouTube a video of herself reading out her poem "Resist, My People, Resist", as a soundtrack to footage of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers.
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Later, the military said in a separate statement that just prior to the attack, Palestinians in the car had thrown firebombs at an Israeli checkpoint and that additional Molotov cocktails had been found in the vehicle.
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The military has warned protesters to stay away from the fence, saying it will not allow them to endanger its soldiers or damage security infrastructure by hurling rocks, burning tires, throwing firebombs or cutting the wire.
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At least eight soldiers on the frontlines in Marawi told Reuters the militants were using accurate sniper fire, grenades and firebombs to hold off advancing troops, despite daily bombing raids and artillery fire on their positions.
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Tear gas and water cannon were also used in Bordeaux, and in Toulouse, where some protesters marched behind a "cacatov party" banner - a play on Molotov cocktail firebombs - encouraging people to throw "poo-bombs" at police.
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In recent years, firebombs have been lobbed at his gated home, an obituary claiming he died from AIDS has run in a rival publication and Lai's political donations have subjected him to an anti-corruption case.
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For nearly 20 months, Palestinians have held weekly demonstrations dubbed the "Great March of Return", which have often turned violent as people throw rocks and firebombs at Israeli troops who respond by shooting with live fire.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Firebombs exploded before dawn on Friday at three churches in Santiago, Chile's capital, an act of violence aimed at Pope Francis, who is to begin a weeklong visit to Chile and Peru on Monday.
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The sub-bass firebombs and pitch-warped war crys endemic to this sort of future trap stuff almost never translate for home listening—Apple earbuds and most home stereo setups can't really capture the genre's strange physicality.
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The IDF said several attempts to "harm or breach the security infrastructure" along the border had taken place, including the detonation of an explosive device near the disused crossing point at Karni, and the throwing of firebombs.
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Israel, endeavoring to explain its use of lethal force, released photos and video of a few Palestinians trying to penetrate the fence and said others had thrown firebombs at its soldiers in the latest round of protest.
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The committee report said other contributing factors in the deadly violence was a failure to impose a curfew or to punish broadcasters for airing false reports on the protests, as well as the use of firebombs by demonstrators.
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The committee report said other contributing factors in the deadly violence was a failure to impose a curfew or to punish broadcasters for airing false reports on the protests, as well as the use of firebombs by demonstrators.
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REZZ kicked off the stage takeover with gnarled bass explorations, and just before Mija took the stage, the post-EDM prankster Josh Pan played a downtempo set largely consisting of kick drum firebombs and ear-bleeding synth squeals.
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On Thursday, protesters lobbed firebombs and chunks of concrete hacked out of the sidewalks at riot police, who fired back tear gas and cast a choking, acrid haze, which hung over Exarchia into the early hours of Friday.
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Israel's backers argue that Hamas is responsible for the deaths, pointing to reports they were cajoling protestors to flood the border fence as well as other reports people were throwing firebombs and flaming kites over the fence into Israel.
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The Americans and Israelis have assailed critics for not explicitly blaming Hamas for the border protests, in which some protesters have attempted to breach the fence or have lobbed firebombs and sent flaming kites over the fence into Israel.
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The IDF also said several attempts were made to cross the border fence and said Palestinians also attempted to "carry out terror attacks, including hurling of explosive devices, firebombs and to damage" the fence under the cover of smoke.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Masked men threw firebombs at an intelligence service compound in the city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, activists said on Monday, in an apparent reprisal for the execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric earlier this month.
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In a conference call with reporters, General Manelis said that on March 30, while civilians generally kept to the rear, militants hurled firebombs, crossed parts of the fence or tried to cut openings in it and fired on Israeli forces.
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Over the years the battles between the pro-life and pro-choice camps have become more acrimonious, even violent, with death threats, firebombs and, in a few instances, the murder of doctors or other staff at clinics that perform abortions.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Gangs of masked youths hurled stones and makeshift firebombs at riot police on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people marched through Paris in protest over a planned change of labor laws that would make hiring and firing easier.
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I response to international criticism over its use of live fire in the demonstrations, the Israeli army says it is protecting its border and takes such action only when protesters, some hurling firebombs and trying to plant explosives, come too close.
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"During the activity a violent riot was instigated as approximately 500 Palestinians hurled rocks, firebombs and explosive devices and fired live rounds at IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers, and in addition the rioters built rock barriers," a military statement said.
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Since April, Gaza militants have been turning kites and balloons into improvised firebombs, burning hundreds of acres of Israeli farmland and forcing firefighting crews from all over the country to race from fire to fire dowsing flames before they can spread.
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Hong Kong was transformed into a tear gas-engulfed battlefield on Tuesday as protesters clashed with riot police in nine districts across the territory, building bonfires and barricades and hurling firebombs and other objects in a direct challenge to Beijing's rule.
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HONG KONG — Hundreds of Hong Kong activists armed with firebombs and bows-and-arrows on Monday battled riot police who have laid a days-long siege to a university, the most violent confrontation yet in a half-year of protests.
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Earlier this month police deployed water cannons after protesters hurled stones and firebombs and ripped down a banner in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and set it on fire, the BBC reported.
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Early Sunday, the police in Gothenburg arrested three men in their 20s on suspicion of arson, after a group of about 10 masked people hurled homemade firebombs, setting fire to the courtyard in front of a synagogue on Saturday evening.
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ATHENS — A peaceful demonstration by tens of thousands of people in Athens turned violent on Sunday, as protesters seeking to enter the Parliament building used clubs, firebombs and other objects to attack officers guarding the building, according to the police.
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A military spokeswoman said rioting had broken out while troops were apprehending several suspects connected with that shooting and troops responded with non-fatal "riot dispersal means" against Palestinians throwing rocks and firebombs and then with live gunfire at the main instigators.
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Most keep a safe distance from the border fence, but small groups of young men have pushed to the front lines to snip off pieces of the structure with wire cutters, or hurl flaming tires, firebombs and stones toward the Israeli troops.
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But it did not stop an Egyptian military court from convicting the accused, a boy now 3 ½, of killing three people, carrying guns and firebombs, blocking a road with burning tires, and trying to damage government buildings — and sentencing him to life in prison.
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Curtis E. LeMay, the officer in charge of strategic bombing from the Marianas, drew upon years of U.S. military research on the flammability of Japanese buildings to usher in a more aggressive tactic: dropping firebombs (also known as incendiary bombs) at night on population centers.
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The Israeli military contends that it has fired judiciously and precisely to prevent damage to the border fence or harm to its soldiers as protesters, spurred on by Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, have hurled stones and firebombs and rolled burning tires.
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The two minors were arrested on Saturday during a long day of street clashes in which protesters threw bricks and firebombs and the police fired multiple rounds of tear gas in Yuen Long, a satellite town near Hong Kong's border with the Chinese mainland.
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Police also fired a cannon with blue water at protesters earlier this month after demonstrators hurled stones and firebombs and ripped down a banner in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and set it on fire.
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The document said either group of protesters could fire firebombs in street rallies, set fire on police stations and steal guns there and try to occupy the Constitutional Court&aposs building and the presidential place if the court didn&apost rule to that group&aposs satisfaction.
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That's because the systematic terrorism that abortion providers, clinic staff, and volunteers are threatened with every day — from stalking and threats, to "Wanted" posters that feature doctors' photos and addresses, to vandalism and firebombs at clinics — escalated dramatically after the Planned Parenthood videos came out in 2015.
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Public opposition to the deal was also clear last Sunday, when tens of thousands protested in Athens in a rally that culminated in violence as groups of right-wing extremists tried to force their way into the Parliament, injuring 25 police officers with clubs and firebombs.
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The Israeli military said troops had responded with "riot dispersal means" and had operated "according to standard operating procedures," a term that refers to the use of accurate live fire, after some Gazans broke through the border fence and attacked troops with firebombs and an explosive device.
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Skirmishes ensued, And then at last a huge white mob stormed into Greenwood, shooting Indiscriminately, burning stores and businesses and houses, while biplanes From an airfield near town, left overfrom WWI, dropped firebombs And fired at people on the ground, until the Negro Wall Street lay in ruins.
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Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, anarchists have joined leftist groups in occupying portions of Greek universities to promote their thinking and lifestyle; many of those occupied spaces exist today, and some are used as bases by anarchists to fashion the crude firebombs hurled at the police during street protests.
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The attack was carried out at the Ramona Gardens housing development in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in the early morning hours of May 12, 2014, after Hernandez distributed gloves and disguises to gang members and instructed them on how to maximize the damage of their firebombs, the indictment charges.
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They pare back the seasick distortion and 808 firebombs in favor of cheeky samples—like the speech-to-text "how to make a song" instructions that open "Rap Song Tutorial" or the Teriyaki Boyz riff on "Jailbreak the Tesla"—and casual barbs at biters, influencer-types, and the industry old guard who has little hope to understand them.
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At night, under cover of darkness, you sneak toward your father's compound, and you scale the fifteen-foot-high walls of clay and crawl along the rooftops until you get to the highest point in the compound, where your father stands, on the lookout for incoming jets and firebombs, and you shoot him twice in the back with tranquillizers and, as he is falling, you catch him in your arms, your father, who, at this time, is around the same age that you are now, and in the dark, on the roof of the compound that he will lose to this war, you hold him, his body still strong and well, his heart unbroken, and you set him down gently on the clay so that the sky does not swallow him.
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