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"restive" Definitions
  1. unable to stay still, or unwilling to be controlled, especially because you feel bored or not satisfied

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ESSEN, Germany — The mood among the comrades was restive.
The country feels restive, placid on the surface, tense beneath.
Every country or restive region has its own idiosyncratic history.
Zubair was in Shirzad, one of Nangarhar's most restive districts.
Turkey, struggling with a restive Kurdish minority, has the same preoccupation.
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The 250 who did get in made for a restive crowd.
Her Christian Democratic Union and its coalition partners are increasingly restive.
Six former fighters were killed in restive Narino province in October.
His winning coalition consisted of restive whites and scarcely anyone else.
Behind the altered political terrain are two restive groups of voters.
By midday, those on the growing line outside had become restive.
Realities, which reports on the situation in Russia's restive southern region.
Hockey remains Canada's king, but basketball is its restive crown prince.
Khpalwak, now 20, is from the restive Kunar province in Eastern Afghanistan.
He presides over a restive group of Republicans who deposed his predecessor.
Still, something of that early '80s restive spirit has stayed with us.
Investors had become restive at its performance, particularly in the past year.
Now they are restive again, following rows over Russia and anti-Semitism.
Hu, 53, has spent much of his career working in restive Tibet.
The new line will cut through some of the most restive areas.
The situation in Rakhine State has once again grown restive and violent.
India's restive Communist circles came to extol and emulate his tactical prowess.
He has also had to face another restive group: his own employees.
The Senate had been growing increasingly restive over the war for months.
He has also had to face another restive group: his own employees.
Deep state institutions will be tempted to become more restive and politicized.
Two suspects detained on Friday are from Narathiwat province in the restive region.
Beijing blamed that on separatists from China's restive far western region of Xinjiang.
But shareholder activism is on the rise, with restive investors demanding corporate overhauls.
In a restive neighbourhood, it has good reason to become more self-reliant.
There is nothing new about restive students on campuses in Africa, or anywhere.
But they say the greater priority is to mollify restive liberals backing Sanders.
Breakingviews imagines a missive sent sometime in late 22019 from a restive shareholder.
Iran's presidential election next week presents a false choice to their restive people.
Amnesty regularly accuses India of violations in the restive Himalayan region of Kashmir.
The city's reputation for peace in a restive region has lured more corporations.
Yet the corridor runs right through the country's most restive—and inequitable—areas.
Before long, however, Stakhanovite bosses clashed with a restive and outspoken factory floor.
A parliament that is restive may reject any deal she does cobble together.
The public's restive mood and high level of engagement so far matter, too.
The trainee teachers studied at a rural college in the restive state of Guerrero.
Critics in Venezuela and outside the restive nation have called the vote a sham.
In 1982, it was bought by Condé Nast, and Brown, restless and restive, left.
It was the first major assault in the restive region in nearly two years.
Having been repeatedly let down, we're restive, ready to reset the realm of possibility.
More recently, Saudi Arabia supported anti-Kremlin rebels in the restive republic of Chechnya.
There, the struggle over the restive region of Catalonia plays out in parallel universes.
CHILEAN GENERAL JAVIER ITURRIAGA DEL CAMPO ANNOUNCES CURFEW IN RESTIVE AREAS OF CAPITAL SANTIAGO
Thus the majority of the Democratic Party is growing very restive as Sanders advances.
But when bloodshed spread to one particular poor, restive Baghdad district, they responded differently.
But Jayapal and Pocan represent a group of restive progressives itching to go further.
Hong Kong's leader must contend with powerful tycoons, restive residents and an almighty central government.
Pro-independence groups have called for a general strike in the restive region on Wednesday.
Whoever takes charge will inherit a restive, youthful country that has been mismanaged for decades.
"They're from Baluchistan in Iran," he said, referring to a violent and restive eastern province.
Suspicion immediately fell on the restive Uighur minority in the neighbouring Chinese province of Xinjiang.
Such tones served as the show's collective nerve, sometimes dreamy, sometimes tenuous, and often restive.
The restive coastal province of Cabo Delgado in northeastern Mozambique doesn't often make international headlines.
Her allies argue that she remains the only Democrat capable of leading the restive caucus.
Many of its restive members long to quit government and lick their wounds in opposition.
Turkey, Iran and Syria fear that their restive Kurdish minorities will join in secessionist demands.
Successive Thai governments have refused to allow any degree of autonomy in the restive region.
Andrew M. Cuomo must now deal with a restive legislature to turn them into policies.
The restive region of Chechnya was the site of two separatist wars in the 1990s.
Nigeria's democracy is vibrantly alive, with a rowdy, free media and a restive, engaged citizenry.
Senior Social Democrats frantically toured the country this week, trying to sway their restive base.
Those neighbouring countries fear independence will encourage their own restive Kurdish populations to press for change.
Nigeria's military said it had destroyed 13 illegal refineries in the restive Niger Delta oil hub.
It takes place at a critical junction in his relations with an increasingly restive Republican Congress.
Militants in the restive southern Niger Delta have also called for independence in the last year.
The SDF is regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, which has a restive Kurdish minority.
Mr Morrison's cure involves offering several important cabinet positions to the losing band of restive conservatives.
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi's government has gutted the autonomy of the restive and disputed Jammu & Kashmir.
Chevron briefly closed the facility in the spring due to militancy Nigeria's restive southern delta region.
The terms of Article 155 are vague and could spur more wrangling with the restive region.
Restive Democrats are complaining again: Nancy Pelosi is making it hard for them to win elections.
They may have more to fear from a restive population at home than shale producers abroad.
From the standpoint of an intellectual or a policy wonk, the GOP's restive base looks incoherent.
Those neighboring countries fear independence will encourage their own restive Kurdish populations to press for change.
Any agreement that satisfied American owners would only increase demands from restive Volkswagen owners in Europe.
Of course, Europe's borders are restive and there is huge pressure on the trans-Atlantic relationship.
It also borders Tibet, the sometimes restive region that China took over in the early 1950s.
In place of a restive industrial proletariat, Tsarist Russia had a long tradition of peasant revolt.
Its border with Bangladesh has traditionally been as calm as its border with Pakistan is restive.
The C.C.P. credits him with having quieted there a restive ethnic group unhappy with its rule.
The nationalists on Corsica, a once-restive island of 320,000 people, want more autonomy from Paris.
Growing a little restive, she made her way toward the glass enclosure housing the cafe cats.
Judging by the restive sighs that crowned the screening I went to, not everyone is fooled.
The restaurants in particular are restive, not least because food is already a low-margin business.
The incident took place at a church in Kizlyar in the restive Russian republic of Dagestan.
It's the casting: Claude, the restive leader of a tribe of free-love hippies, is 21968.
Lashio is in Myanmar's restive Shan State where several ethnic insurgent groups are fighting the Myanmar military.
The prospect of oversight hearings, led by restive Republicans investigating an FBI "cover-up," made everyone uneasy.
Since August, 184 people have been killed in three major attacks in the restive Baluchistan region alone.
Restive GOP freshmen eye entitlement reform: Senate Republican frustrated with Washington's spending are pushing for dramatic reforms.
The bombing was claimed by Islamic State and is the latest sectarian attack in the restive province.
Faced with a restive and resentful population, the government is still relying on force to restore order.
They will also find it reassuring, having been made restive by his recent deals with Democratic leaders.
The band's 2013 debut, "Burn," was a restive, rangy album, stretching from slow deliquescence to scorching surrealism.
The flavors here come from the restive minds of Kryse Panis Martin and her husband, Darren McGill.
Lawmakers, however, are getting restive and are threatening to try to seize control of the process. Mrs.
Journalists in the restive provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan have also raised concerns about their safety.
When I was growing up in Montreal in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a restive time.
Now, many of his proposals will lie in the hands of a restive and potentially uncooperative Legislature.
Except that people have already confused it with Chechnya, a restive Russian republic nearly 22016,27 miles away.
Then on Wednesday, in the restive city of Bamenda, another attack left a gendarme dead, Tchiroma said.
The army can seal off restive areas, enforce curfews and impose punishments, such as the demolition of homes.
This year, Haftar's LNA forces have already sought to bring order to the restive southern oil-producing region.
There have also been crackdowns in restive Kurdish areas in southeastern Turkey, with some towns put under curfew.
Saudi Arabia has a sizable Shiite minority whose members reside primarily in the restive eastern province of Qatif.
He was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces in the restive province in 2006.
It also carries far-reaching implications for a restive Middle East and for the rest of the world.
John Kelly, who was brought in with a mandate to instill order in Trump's pack of restive aides.
But it is unclear how much novelty he is planning, and whether it will satisfy Chile's restive people.
Right-wing politicians accused Mr. Sánchez of failing to guarantee law and order in Spain's restive northeastern region.
Those restive voices agree that the Democrats need a hefty shakeup to get back on a winning track.
And it remains unclear what strategy the restive junior Democrats who extended the elections — including Gallego and Rep.
Both had served as inspector generals of the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, in restive southwestern Baluchistan Province.
That's roused unusually strong interest group hostility, and that hostility is reflected in an unusually restive congressional caucus.
The choice is widely seen as a way of maintaining his anti-establishment credentials with restive Greek voters.
The wife (referred to sometimes as the Woman, sometimes as Agnès) is restive; the husband (the Protector), controlling.
Lips scream here, hands clench, a woman in a gray peignoir walks up and down, a restive ghost.
Sisi has felt compelled recently to begin placating his restive working class with salary bonuses and tax cuts.
But the space is too small, which for the crowd growing restive on the porch is a problem.
Catalonia, the restive northeastern region that is Spain's economic powerhouse, attempted to hold an independence referendum on Sunday.
That could make it easier for restive investors, like Keith Meister's Corvex Management, to nominate their own slate.
On Tuesday, many cities remained restive, with schools and university classes suspended and National League soccer matches canceled.
The move raised tensions between India and Pakistan, which have long been at odds over the restive region.
Increasingly angry at Mr. Boehner's efforts to quell his restive right wing, they pushed to toss him out.
A restive minority group clamors for rights it's been denied — rights it might take up arms to obtain.
It wants to prevent other restive states, like Vermont, from following Texas's lead, thus collapsing the entire Union.
How she goes down with restive lawmakers, some of whom would like to topple her, will be closely watched.
The crippling protests were mainly in towns across the restive Oromia region, the largest of Ethiopia&aposs nine provinces.
Earlier this year, the Afghan military received its first surveillance drones, which have been deployed in restive Helmand province.
Baluchistan, a restive province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been racked by separatist and sectarian violence for years.
It is intended to make what Mr Kaplan calls "an end run" around China's restive western province of Xinjiang.
As part of the visit, McCain traveled to Miranshah, the capital of the restive North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.
Restive regulators in Europe are gearing up to enforce tough privacy laws and further court challenges await, activists say.
But neighboring countries worried that Iraqi Kurdish ambitions would embolden their own restive Kurdish populations to agitate for change.
The tension is exacerbated by the KDP's co-operation with Turkey, home to a large and restive Kurdish population.
With Iran's economy reeling and its population restive, the choice could prove an increasingly tough one for the mullahs.
Turkey strenuously objected to this plan because of its restive Kurdish population, but the Trump administration went ahead anyway.
He also announced the legalizing of illicit refineries in the Niger Delta, the OPEC member's restive southern oil hub.
The findings reveal a restive European public worried about their economic prospects, high taxes, inequality, immigration and climate change.
But fears of nuclear weapons proliferation in the restive Middle East could quickly reverse that drop, according to Croft.
Militant foothold Abu Sayyaf is headquartered in the restive Muslim-majority province of Mindanao in the country's far south.
It is also true that Afghanistan's proximity to China's restive Muslim Xinjiang region is a disturbing factor for Beijing.
It speaks its own language, Catalan, has its own cultural traditions, and has long nurtured a restive independence movement.
Calling the demonstrations "the new sedition," the Revolutionary Guards commander sent his elite troops to Iran's most restive regions.
Fans are growing restive as the reality sinks in: There are almost no live sporting events going on anywhere.
Fans are growing restive as the reality sinks in: There are almost no live sporting events going on anywhere.
He described the challenges facing filmmakers, heightened in his case by his ethnic ties to a sometimes restive region.
In the restive period that followed, Louverture consolidated power, ultimately enforcing a labor code no less repressive than slavery.
NIGERIAN STATE OF RIVERS PURCHASES ROYAL DUTCH SHELL'S STAKE IN OIL MINING LICENSE 11 IN RESTIVE OGNILAND REGION - GOVERNOR
China has rejected the allegations of internment camps and accused "external factors" of causing turbulence in the restive region.
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Last month, Beijing moved thousands of troops across the border into this restive city.
Patrick McHenry, the chief deputy whip, to try and figure out a path forward for the restive conservative bloc.
Pakistan denies the charge and accuses India of occupying Kashmir and fomenting trouble in its restive provinces, like Baluchistan.
On the other side is Ms. Pelosi's restive new Democratic majority, which demands a say in setting the agenda.
She faces a restive liberal base that is pressing her to go further and open a formal impeachment inquiry.
But an unstable government or a restive parliament may limit the space that she, or her successor, has for compromise.
Acknowledging tension and the city's restive youth, Lam said she was aware of the city's problems and deeply polarized views.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed five policemen in the restive northern Sinai on Saturday, the Egyptian interior ministry said on Facebook.
For two years, Egypt secretly allowed Israel to carry out drone strikes against militant groups on the restive Sinai peninsula.
Clearly none of them thinks peace is at hand; yet none wants to rule directly over millions of restive Palestinians.
It was the rise of UKIP, more than his own restive backbenchers, that drove Mr Cameron to offer the referendum.
Meanwhile 43% of the urban young are said to be unemployed and the Rif region in the north is restive.
Abu Sayyaf's aims Abu Sayyaf is headquartered in the restive Muslim-majority province of Mindanao in the country's far south.
Rio Tinto was run off the restive Bougainville Island in 1990 by residents who wanted to reintroduce an agrarian society.
Trump's abuse of these children is witnessed by a restive, troubled and committed citizenry that largely opposes this moral outrage.
Duterte has said he will order the pullout of the remaining U.S. special forces stationed in the Philippines' restive south.
Parts of the city are still restive, and the war grinds on in Aleppo and other parts of the country.
Mord is the result of one such experiment, a creature manufactured to protect the Company from the increasingly restive locals.
Most recently, he had worked on an advisory commission in Myanmar on the crisis in the country's restive Rakhine State.
That's the scene in Germany and France, where Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are isolated between restive rights and left.
Anchored by Rosamund Pike's powerhouse lead performance, this restive, raw movie slowly accumulates the heft to render its flaws irrelevant.
In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to the restive Mexican frontier, McLaughlin served in the Illinois National Guard.
As the novel probes relationships laced with curiosity and resentment, what stands out is Costanza's restive questioning of her impulses.
However, Gortazar said Caixabank did not plan to transfer staff or business units out of the restive region for now.
The Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the restive Kashmir Valley, is India's only Muslim-majority state.
It's one of many so-called yellow shops in the restive Chinese territory that openly support the city's democracy movement.
To do so, he must grapple with grasping warlords, crooked civil servants, an unprincipled political class and a restive population.
He knows there are thousands of reporters in Philadelphia eager to write stories about restive Sanders delegates at the convention.
The so-called New Breed fans (named and championed by the swaggering, righteous Daily News columnist Dick Young) grew restive.
Waziristan, the restive region on the Western border with Afghanistan, is one of the most underreported places in the country.
But, in Arantepacua, another restive Michoacan community which is boycotting the election, Dionisio Lopez said he is finished casting ballots.
Some House conservatives are becoming restive at the high price tag for the disasters, which come as the deficit is growing.
Yangon is the country's commercial capital, while Rakhine and Shan are restive states in which the military has a large presence.
Sadah, from the restive Shi'ite-majority Qatif province, has also campaigned to abolish the guardianship system and the right to drive.
From regional parliaments to national referendums and restive constitutional courts, numerous spoilers have been hindering what should be routine European business.
There would be a restive board, a corporate raider, and possibly—ironically enough—a polite inquiry from a private-equity firm.
In 1973, preparing for a trek across a newly kingless, restive Afghanistan, he stashed a hard-boiled egg in his pocket.
In Somalia, Emirati cash has exacerbated the struggle between the internationally recognised federal government in Mogadishu and the restive, secessionist regions.
Gwadar is located in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province, where a low-intensity separatist insurgency for nationhood has been bubbling for decades.
UNREST in Catalonia has focused global attention on Spain, but it is not the only European country dealing with restive regions.
It also risks exacerbating the struggle between Somalia's weak, but internationally recognised federal government in Mogadishu and its restive, secessionist regions.
All are campaigning for greater autonomy to a varying degree for the restive region, a sensitive issue for the Thai military.
"Air strikes will not bring long-term security," said Abdul Jabbar Qahraman, a lawmaker from the restive southern province of Helmand.
Few, if any, issues animate the conference more, particularly its always restive right flank, and a misstep could create a problem.
Both Turkey and Iran have restive Kurdish populations and fear that an independent Iraqi Kurdistan could galvanize their own nationalist movements.
It applies this pattern of economic support, as well as a strict security regime, to its restive western region of Xinjiang.
The value of the proposal House Democrats have stayed unified, but there's no question portions of the caucus have been restive.
Formed in 1982, the PAP was used to suppress insurrection and riots in restive mainland regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet.
But he suggested that the government should not be blamed for not providing health care in the state's restive northern townships.
The first is the tendency of even a diffident, restive 14-year-old to criticize the premise of the program itself.
Authorities also used the law to order an internet shutdown in the restive Rakhine state, home to the persecuted Rohingya minority.
You emerge from it restive and itchy, as though a movie screen could give you sunburn, and the story defies resolution.
The restive region's parliamentary speaker Monday nominated Puigdemont to take up the office of president pending a vote in the chamber.
A restive White House There are few things harder than taking over the White House at the start of a new administration.
Asked about Lam's warnings, Chris Patten, Britain's last governor of Hong Kong, urged greater efforts to engage Hong Kong's restive young people.
The crisis could still be defused if Mr Biya made the right moves, including, perhaps, devolving more power to the restive regions.
The euro-zone debate may yet be derailed or diluted by restive parliaments in creditor countries battling ghosts of their own imagination.
She arrived in the state capital Sittwe on Thursday morning and headed to restive northern Rakhine where many Rohingya villages were located.
Conflicts abound—between the state and groups wanting autonomy, or religious militants, or restive clans, or communist insurgents, or bandits and pirates.
Yusufu Mieraili and Adem Karadag, the two suspects arrested last year by Thai police, are Uighur Muslims from China's restive Xinjiang region.
It also faces a southern secessionist movement, restive tribes and Islamic militants, while many services such as electricity and water are scarce.
Surrounded by more restive Central American nations, such as Nicaragua and Guatemala, Costa Rica has enjoyed six decades of peaceful, uninterrupted democracy.
Earlier on Monday, a bomb went off in Yala, one of the Muslim-majority provinces in the restive south, wounding military officers.
Clinton seemed almost to be trying to grapple with the meaning of her achievement and the overall restive mood of the country.
As President Trump appears to be moving closer to decisive action on trade, free traders in Congress are growing visibly more restive.
While rejecting an independence ballot, Sanchez has taken a more conciliatory tone toward the restive region since coming to power last year.
But the Democrats' liberal wing, including lawmakers like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has become more restive in Mr. Obama's second term.
Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, has seen a period of relative calm in its restive southern delta region over the last year.
It is about a lost body of water at Lop Nur in the restive Uighur region of China, which Ms. Chang visited.
She is widely seen as having the necessary mix of liberalism and conservatism to unite a restive party base, our correspondents write.
MADRID — Almost two weeks after Spain's government took control of Catalonia, the restive region's independence movement is showing some signs of strain.
On Saturday, the United Nations mission in Kinshasa released a statement expressing concern over reports of renewed fighting in the restive region.
Designed to make China's enemies tremble, it also served to warn restive parts of China itself that rebellion will not be tolerated.
The paper described how Mr. Adityanath's pets have become restive in his absence as they await a move to his official residence.
Other than Scotland, no other restive region in Europe has taken the steps that Catalonia has to make independence a viable option.
Those numbers have emboldened Democrats, who feel the political wind at their backs and pressure from an energized, restive liberal party base.
The Wahhabi strain was outlawed in another restive, predominantly Muslim province, Dagestan, and its adherents are persecuted in Russia, rights groups say.
The 43-year-old entrepreneur was born in the eastern city of Banda and grew up in the restive easternmost region of Papua.
ONITSHA, Nigeria June 8 (Reuters) - A Chevron well in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta has been attacked, a local community leader said on Wednesday.
Rampant industrialisation was transforming Britain's landscape; increasingly globalised trade had created new pressures, pitting established interests against a restive and maltreated working class.
At least two members of the Frontier Corps, the main state security force in restive Baluchistan, were wounded in the attack, Wasey said.
Some, like Mushtaq, a 22-year-old student from the restive district of Pulwama, say they were demonstrating when they were shot at.
Turkey is enraged by the expansion of Kurdish influence in northern Syria, fearing it will encourage separatist ambitions among its own restive Kurds.
It's against this backdrop that Turnbull failed to hold on — restive conservatives and an animus toward Turnbull set alit by this energy bill.
But some members of Congress have become increasingly restive about relations with Saudi Arabia, long an important player in U.S. Middle East policy.
Their operations have been made easier by the lack of central authority in Myanmar's restive north and the relatively porous borders, Douglas said.
While the military's high command appears unlikely to act against the government right now, these officials said, its midlevel officers are more restive.
The government responded to this one because the public grew restive, an indication that China's environmental policy is aimed at stability, not sustainability.
He is a leading researcher and journalist on the restive Sinai Peninsula and has helped to shed light on the humanitarian situation there.
Picking Macau would be a useful way for Beijing to shower favour on a pliant territory, while snubbing its restive neighbour, Hong Kong.
Counihan addressed the powerful trade group as ObamaCare officials face new questions about marketplace viability amid bold actions from restive insurers like UnitedHealthCare.
TEHRAN — Gunmen ambushed a car carrying a lawmaker and a local governor on Sunday in Iran's restive Kurdish region, state news media reported.
But a restive officers' union and the shock of four officers killed on his watch have tempered his zeal for pushing reform legislation.
With his diatribes against Islam, immigration from Mexico and economic competition from Asia, Mr. Trump has amassed dominant support from restive white voters.
The bombing, believed to have been carried out by a suicide attacker, occurred in the Khuzdar district of the restive province of Baluchistan.
Ethiopia's prime minister resigned suddenly last month and a state of emergency was imposed but protests in the restive Oromia region have continued.
Many worry he will not be able to push reforms through a restive Congress amid growing frustration on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Some experts note that Trump's outsider image helped him during the primary, when a restive, dissatisfied Republican base was looking for a maverick.
Among the 330 academics dismissed were those who signed a petition last year criticizing military action in the restive southeast against Kurdish militants.
The mood in the Empire was restive, ripe for a self-declared savior ready to deploy the language of violence and identify scapegoats.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, is struggling with mass protests against his plans to overhaul the French economy, and farmers are already restive.
A state-owned company, North Caucasus Resorts, is building a string of ski resorts in the restive, predominantly Muslim areas of the Caucasus.
Kashmir: Easing the complete communications blackout imposed two months ago, the Indian government on Monday partially restored cellphone service in the restive region.
They say it will cause regional chaos, and they also fear secession will encourage their own restive Kurdish populations to press for self-determination.
But once Beijing is able to find a reliable successor who might be acceptable to a restive Hong Kong, her days will be numbered.
YENAGOA, Nigeria Oct 2 (Reuters) - The Nigerian army will carry out training exercises in the restive southern Niger Delta oil production hub from Oct.
Over the past few months, his security forces have clashed with Mr Dahlan's followers in places like Balata, a restive refugee camp near Nablus.
Recently it has ignored orders to downplay tensions with America and has offered defiant candour about Xinjiang, a restive western region turned police state.
Reporting access for foreign journalists in the restive region has been limited, despite Widodo's announcement in 2015 that Papua was open to foreign media.
Now they are beginning to view the territory as yet another restive province with ungrateful subjects—a better-washed version of Tibet or Xinjiang.
The Philippines has had its share of conflict, particularly in Mindanao, a poor and restive southern island that is home to most Filipino Muslims.
Riyadh intervened when the Arab Spring swept through Bahrain, and the Saudis continue to worry about their neighbor's restive Shiite Muslim majority, Schep said.
Increasingly restive protests have plunged Hong Kong into its most serious political crisis in decades, posing a challenge to the central government in Beijing.
The former mayor of Davao, a restive city in the southern Philippines, has long had a reputation for straight-talking and using offensive language.
The outcome, which was a victory for Saudi Arabia, came as the US-Saudi relationship is being carefully examined and managed by restive lawmakers.
It has launched a sweeping "People&aposs War on Terror" in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to more than 10 million Muslims.
Pakistan authorities claimed they detained him in the restive Balochistan province, which is home to a separatist insurgency that Pakistan accuses India of backing.
" He added, "And the technocratic billionaire looking all competent and capable waiting in the wings looks even more appealing to skittish and restive Democrats.
More broadly, Iran is rising as Arab states face increasing challenges to state authority; restive populations and worsening economies; and, in some cases, fragmentation.
European governments are also becoming restive and in the wake of the most recent shifts in U.S. policy, less likely to follow Washington's lead.
One soldier was announced dead on Tuesday after the vehicle struck an explosive device during a patrol in the restive north of the country.
Disputes over land are becoming more common in India's restive northeast, as authorities introduce legislation to free up protected land held by tribal communities.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned up the dial a notch by making a rare reference to Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province in a recent speech.
Right-wing parties are now competing on which would take a harder line on the restive region, hoping to attract more votes on Sunday.
Pompeo described an Iran rife with unemployment, hopeless youth and a brutal repressive dictatorship bent on suppressing a restive population with intimidation and violence.
Spain's biggest political crisis in decades moved into a decisive week on Monday, as Madrid seeks to impose its control of the restive region.
The seventh and ninth are responsible respectively for Tibet and Xinjiang — two restive frontier areas that are home to Tibetan and Uighur minority nationalities.
Zakharov has said that he worked in conflict resolution for Russian intelligence in the restive Russian republics of Chechnya and Dagestan in the 1990s.
Scores of people were killed and many others were seriously wounded in the latest burst of violence in the restive Pakistani city of Quetta.
It comes days after the 73-year-old former military ruler canceled a trip to the restive Niger Delta region at the last minute.
Mr. Rajoy also hopes to make the Catalan crisis a teaching moment to other restive regions in Spain, especially the violence-prone Basque Country.
It also suggested a rogue impulse among still-restive Republican primary voters that could lead to extreme general-election candidates that Democrats can beat.
In the restive Muslim regions, Mr. Putin has empowered local leaders to press agendas of traditional Muslim values, to co-opt an Islamist underground.
He was accused by the Pakistani government of fomenting terrorist activities in the restive southwest province of Baluchistan and sentenced to death last month.
Meanwhile, the long-restive province of Quebec has worked for years to establish itself as a climate change-fighting leader within the Canadian federation.
Its survival could hinge on his ability to bring to an end the long-simmering dispute over Catalonia, the restive region in northeastern Spain.
As soon as Spieth salvaged par after flirting with the water hazard on his approach on the par-4 123th, the patrons grew restive.
In the restive city of Nasiriyah, demonstrators torched the offices of three political parties and a lawmaker whom they blame for their country's ills.
They also criticise Mnangagwa for presiding over soaring prices and shortages of foreign currency and fuel that have sparked anger among a restive population.
Three militants wearing suicide vests attempted to storm the complex in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan when confronted by guards at the entrance.
Apart from the three killed, 10 other policemen were wounded by the roadside explosion in the restive Sinai Peninsula, security and medical sources told Reuters.
Since new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was installed in April, several thousands of prisoners have been released and tensions in restive areas have dramatically declined.
The central government is also investing heavily in the country's sometimes restive western regions to ease poverty and better integrate them into the national economy.
Among other measures, the firebrand leader has said he will order the pullout of the remaining U.S. special forces stationed in the Philippines' restive south.
Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told CNN he was urging his restive GOP colleagues, particularly those in the House, to slow the process down.
Even so they are restive, insisting that they got over the crisis years ago but are still being held back by a thicket of regulation.
Paul Bley, who died a few days into the new year, at 83, was a jazz pianist of enigmatic intention and restive yet soulful composure.
Rights groups such as Amnesty International have accused Saudi Arabia of using the death penalty as a political weapon against the country's restive Shia minority.
Such Republicans were generally comfortable with Mr Cantor and willing to occasionally look the other way over his accommodations with the party's restive right wing.
Throwing a boyar (an aristocratic official) off the porch to a restive crowd was a standard means of placating discontent until Peter the Great's time.
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Eritrea and Somalia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, an official said Monday, in another thaw in the restive Horn of Africa region.
The restive Baluchistan province beset by militant violence was won by a mix of small parties who will have to form a coalition to rule.
Paramilitary police have clamped curfews on restive Kurdish towns and arrested hundreds of alleged PKK supporters; guerrillas have struck back with roadside bombs and shootings.
Ryan and GOP leaders will pitch those changes to their restive conference in a high-stakes meeting on the topic in the Capitol Tuesday evening.
So although Hong Kong lost some of its most productive people, it ended up with an increasingly independent, individualist, confident yet potentially restive middle class.
But behind him, rather than a powerful family, his euro-zone partners see a vast debt pile, a floundering economy and an increasingly restive electorate.
Militant activity in central Sinai is less frequent than in its more restive north, where Islamic State attacks on military and police checkpoints are common.
The violence was among the worst in the restive region in years, leaving more than 30 people dead, including a police officer, and thousands injured.
Salem al-Milqat, police chief of Tawahi district, occurred in the restive district of al-Mansoura which has seen several assaults on local security officials.
It was the most shocking result of 2018's political season so far, and could signal a restive base as the 2020 presidential primary approaches.
General Ragai, according to multiple pro-state papers, had previously been deployed to Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, where the military is fighting Islamic State militants.
Those remaining fighters, officials said, were led by Mahmud bin Ahmad, a Malaysian terrorist who has helped fund the fighting in the Philippines' restive south.
In tapping Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer, she found a candidate widely seen as having the mix of liberalism and conservatism to unite a restive party base.
And I think that the kind of restive, probing spirit that Humphrey embodied is not honored enough by the art world and that's a pity.
The lyrics — about restive dreams amid disappointment, about a desperation to leave the hardship town of his childhood — hit him with the force of revelation.
The president is now balancing the concerns of a restive population and the needs of international investors — and they don't necessarily want the same thing.
And the Kashmir Valley, the most restive part of the state and home to as many as 8 million people, remains under a punishing blockade.
In 250, a restive Mr. Johnson negotiated a $1.9 billion stock swap with the packaged-food juggernaut Nabisco, maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on energy facilities in the restive region that have cut Nigeria's oil production by 700,000 bpd.
The decision threatens to throw an already restive Pakistan into political tumult as the judiciary sets up for a battle of wills against the military.
The Soviet-backed Communist government had left many Hungarians restive, and Mr. Leimdorfer, just 21989 at the time, later recalled that the demonstration on Oct.
McCain, visiting the Middle East as part of a U.S. delegation, also traveled to Miranshah, the capital of the restive North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, claimed responsibility for the attack in Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan Province, in the country's southwest.
Unlike so much contemporary jazz that's informed by global traditions, the album retains the atmosphere of restive jubilation that defines the actual event of Carnival.
Washington is threatening to add oil sanctions to existing measures to stop Venezuela from issuing new debt, while restive creditors are considering more aggressive tactics.
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Five Egyptian policemen were killed and six wounded on Monday by two roadside explosions in the restive Sinai Peninsula, security sources told Reuters.
Shrouded in dense rainforest 30 minutes from the restive Colombian border, Lago Agrio translates as "Sour Lake"–the US town where Texaco was established in 1901.
" When it became clear that this was as close as Cruz was going to get to an endorsement, the restive audience turned angry: "We want Trump!
The party's restive left wing is exerting much more influence, partly because of anger at the financial industry and establishment politics after the Great Recession. Mrs.
The grousing from restive progressives and younger members is largely divorced from the practical dynamics of caucus politics where Pelosi's main critics are to her right.
But while her party colleagues focus on winning elections and managing the coalition with the restive Social Democrats (SPD), the chancellor has shifted her attention outward.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation's refugee agency in Sudan's restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday.
Whether or not any of these results would be repeated in an in-out referendum, there is no question that countries across Europe are growing restive.
Despite a weekend sweep of the rival St. Louis Cardinals, the mood among the restive fans and chroniclers of Chicago's North Side baseball club is bleak.
Now the restive Mr. Macron, 38, the youngest man in Mr. Hollande's cabinet, can be counted as a new element in Mr. Hollande's growing political woes.
Ayub, 16 and wafer-thin, recalled how he left his home in the restive Oromia region of Ethiopia one night after taking part in antigovernment protests.
Seeking more accountability for the dismal results, dozens of restive lawmakers successfully delayed the party's leadership elections to this week to allow more time for reckoning.
You can't always tell where archive footage of the urban turmoil ends and the scripted semi-fictions begin, so restive and so probing is the camera.
Yet there may be more to learn from the radical hopes of 1917, as we weather an era of sclerotic politics, restive masses, and ecological crisis.
He was writing about "A Doll's House," his proto-feminist masterwork, which concludes with Nora Helmer, a restive Norwegian housewife, walking out on her husband, Torvald.
That was widely seen as a political sop to Ramzan A. Kadyrov, Akhmad's son and the current president of Chechnya, the restive region in the Caucasus.
In Minnesota, he addressed the crowd in all three of these Ethiopian languages, as well as some rehearsed Somali for attendees from Ethiopia's restive eastern region.
The attack, which took place on Friday in the restive province of Baluchistan, has renewed concerns that violence could disrupt national elections scheduled for July 25.
As talking heads on cable news wondered whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi could keep her restive caucus patient, Ms. Harris touted her plan to increase teacher pay.
For the last two years, he had supervised the collection of intelligence in the same sort of restive regions to which he deployed with the SEALs.
Two weeks ago, he said, a woman from Jaghori district, in restive Ghazni, had arrived in Kabul with a toddler and a high school graduate, Negina.
The Kremlin's stated goal was fighting the Islamic State, lest it gain a stronghold in Syria not far from restive, predominantly Muslim regions in southern Russia.
Restive House members have also blamed Senate rules for the party's thin legislative record under the first year of unified Republican control in Washington since 2006.
In August, the Indian government injected a new note of uncertainty by stripping away statehood from Jammu and Kashmir State, which includes the restive Kashmir Valley.
His rapturous welcome in both countries suggested that the United States could make a new start with allies who had grown restive during the Obama administration.
Since those days, Mr. Anas has become a champion of peaceful change and dialogue, not only for Algeria but for restive societies across the Muslim world.
Hotel workers in Nan San, a town abutting Myanmar's restive Kokang region where the fighting is taking place, described disoriented people moving rapidly into the town.
As for Netanyahu, after the photo-ops displaying him in the familiar splendor of a White House visit, he will return to an increasingly restive Israel.
Although he was elected by acclamation, it didn't take long before a restive GOP forced him out in favor of his whip, Bob Michel of Illinois.
Such convenience does allow for the possibility that restive children could prank Alexa from the back seat simply by calling out for, say, Rick Astley songs.
The agreement will probably prove more of a challenge for Mayor Guardian, who faces restive city and county officials adamantly opposed to giving up control to Trenton.
Catalonia has sworn in a new government, automatically ending a seven-month takeover by Spain&aposs central authorities following a failed secession bid by the restive region.
That tune, which was music to Netanyahu's ears and to the increasingly restive right-wing within his coalition, has since changed, making Wednesday's talks critical for clarity.
By investing in volatile countries in central Asia, he reckons he can create a more stable neighbourhood for China's own restive western provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet.
Pakistan says it is itself a victim of terrorism and says India is using its close ties with Afghanistan to stir trouble in its restive Baluchistan province.
The programme's apparent aim is to win the support of elites in restive frontier areas and give the brightest ethnic-minority children more exposure to Han culture.
It accused Qatar of supporting what it described as Iranian-backed militants in its restive and largely Shi'ite Muslim-populated eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain.
Urumqi, the Tier-2 capital of China's restive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, recorded the biggest monthly price gains of 1.8 percent among the 70 major cities surveyed.
More than 903,000 police officers will be tasked with securing his trip throughout Jerusalem, the restive holy city that both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital.
Now, she is running for a parliamentary seat in a general election on Sunday, hoping to have a hand in making government policies for the restive region.
And Matt Gaetz, one of Trump's closest allies in the GOP, told reporters the party's base is restive with lawmakers like Omar because of fears of terrorism.
A Canadian kidnapped this week in a restive region of Burkina Faso has been found dead, a spokesman for the security ministry told Reuters earlier on Thursday.
In light of recent developments, one such avenue may run through copper- specifically the 3 billion dollar Mes Aynak copper mine project in Afghanistan's restive Logar Province.
But the loss of each one makes Mr. Ryan's job as speaker in charge of a restive and difficult-to-control Republican majority just that much harder.
Or maybe the sound was intended to help draw the attention of the audience — a frustratingly restive one at Buttenwieser Hall on Monday — back to the music.
The Afghan intelligence agency said Sunday that the Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, had been killed in the strike in the restive Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
Last month, the Hindu-nationalist BJP pulled out of a coalition government with the Muslim-backed People's Democratic Party in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir.
But if Democrats recapture the House, restive rank-and-file Republicans may not want to stick with the same leadership team and instead hit the reset button.
The attack, carried out by three militants wielding guns and explosives, also wounded 120 people at the college near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, a restive province.
He also said allegations of excessive use of force across the two restive regions must be investigated and that his office was in discussions with Ethiopian authorities.
Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by the Islamic State group in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed since 2013.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, May 13 (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a Chevron oil facility in Nigeria's restive Delta region on Friday, a security source and The Nation newspaper said.
The attack came after four paramilitary officials patrolling in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province were killed on Friday in an ambush by unidentified militants, the military said.
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Five people including a soldier were killed after gunmen stormed a five-star luxury hotel in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the military said Sunday.
Stirred by Sori's call for justice, Gera and a couple of other lawyers left Delhi to set up office in the state's restive Bastar region in 2013.
Ryan and his team have signaled they are still hopeful they can strike an agreement on a new piece of immigration legislation that appeases their restive conference.
Television footage and pictures this month from the southern African country have shown baton-wielding riot police taking on groups of young men in restive Harare townships.
The pound eased to seven-week lows ahead of Prime Minister Theresa May's address to restive Conservative Party lawmakers on her Brexit strategy later in the day.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two Royal Dutch Shell oil workers were kidnapped, and their police escorts killed, in Nigeria's restive Delta region, a police spokesman said on Friday.
It has concentrated on restive regions such as Xinjiang, where there have been violent incidents between the Muslim Uighur minority and immigrants from the ethnic Han majority.
In June, he sent the Jungle Commando force, outfitted with tanks, helicopters, armored cars, drones and thermal cameras, to the most restive indigenous areas in southern Chile.
Since last month, the country's military has been locked in a battle against Islamist groups allied with the Islamic State on the restive southern island of Mindanao.
But security forces still maintain a strong presence in the restive region and are often seen as taking a heavy-handed approach to peaceful demonstrations, activists say.
His collaborators — Bill Frisell on guitar, Richard Teitelbaum on synthesizer and piano, Ben Street on bass — bring a fidgety eloquence, creating music of dreamlike but restive beauty.
Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province has been hit by a number of attacks on security personnel but the number of large scale incidents has decreased significantly since 2016.
In Cameroon, a shutdown blocked internet access in the restive, English-speaking western regions of the country, on and off, for 240 days in 2017 and 2018.
In the restive region of Xinjiang, the PAP has been used heavily to counter what China describes as a terrorist threat from Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim minority.
The condemned naval officer, Kulbhushan Jadhav, was arrested in March 2016 in Baluchistan, the restive province in Southwest Pakistan, where a separatist insurgency has simmered for decades.
Evidence in the case points to high-ranking government officials in Russia's restive republic of Chechnya, led by Mr. Kadyrov, who is an ally of Mr. Putin.
Though Google's business has been humming along, the company has been roiled by a restive work force and by the political backlash against Big Tech in general.
A number of foreign militants are believed to have escaped the fighting in Marawi and fled to other restive parts of the southern Philippines, including Jolo island.
CAIRO — Ten Egyptian soldiers and 15 militants were killed during a raid on an Islamist insurgent base in the restive Sinai Peninsula, a military spokesman said Thursday.
Four months later the restive Kashmir Valley, the most populous part of the erstwhile state, remains locked under an internet ban, with its political leaders under arrest.
The investigators had been appointed by the United Nations Security Council to look into a rebellion and accusations of human rights abuses in restive Kasai-Central Province.
Experts believe more than 1m Uighurs—a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in China—have been locked up as part of a campaign to make the region less restive.
President Joko Widodo has sought to ease tension in the restive region with steps such as building the Trans Papua highway to spur economic activity and boost welfare.
Independence for South Sudan in 2011 meant that many previously restive areas escaped Khartoum's rule, except for South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where rebels kept up their fight.
That encompasses not only Han traditions but those of China's 55 official ethnic minorities, from such places as Tibet, Inner Mongolia or the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.
Image 2 of 2 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan&aposs upper house of parliament has passed a bill giving equal rights to 5 million people in the restive northwestern tribal region.
Kenyan opposition areas are calm a day after the country&aposs election commission postponed voting in four restive counties where deadly clashes between police and protesters have occurred.
Local authorities have not declared a curfew, but instead clamped down on non-essential travel and gatherings of four or more, effectively keeping restive people in their homes.
A restive electorate The most important reason is that there have just been many points in this election season when conventional wisdom and social science have been shaky.
That strain on the Western liberal democratic order comes just as geopolitics is getting complicated thanks to a rising China, a restive Russia, and an ongoing refugee crisis.
After all, David Cameron only pledged a referendum on Brexit in January 2013 as a gambit - ill-judged, it now seems - to placate restive Eurosceptics within his party.
Dozens of the stateless Rohingya minority have been killed and tens of thousands displaced since October, when a fresh bout of state-sponsored violence hit restive Rakhine State.
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Security forces in Congo Republic have killed around 15 rebel fighters during a military operation in the central African oil producer's restive Pool region, authorities said.
The picture was taken in March, only hours after soldiers surrounded a group of men at a construction site in Toh Chud, their home in Thailand's restive south.
Though ruled by a theocracy, it is easy to see that the country is poised for transformative change, driven by its increasingly restive and organized pro-democratic population.
In January, a suicide bomber killed at least 15 people outside a polio eradication centre in the restive western city of Quetta, with two militant groups claiming responsibility.
Pelosi, still fighting to regain the speaker's gavel, is loathe to accept a deal that allows any wall money given her restive caucus and a looming leadership vote.
He rebuked his "10-year opposition party" that was accustomed to being against things, and not for things, amid signs his hold on his restive caucus was fraying.
Since new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, 42, was installed in April, several thousands of prisoners have been released and tensions in restive areas, notably Oromia, have dramatically declined.
Many of the projects focus on oil refining infrastructure in Pakistan's impoverished and restive Balochistan region, which lies along the 565-mile border with Saudi arch-rival Iran.
The punters to my back and sides are getting restive, hissing about the nick ae this cunt, the state ae this cunt, the fucking jaw on this cunt.
Many Kurds fear that the exclusion of Kurdish politicians from Parliament will exacerbate tensions in the country's restive southeast region and spur more violent attacks from Kurdish militants.
The far right and the anti-PC crusaders represent the energy of a restive white majority, each reacting to challenges from changing demographics and movements for racial equality.
It was the worst attack in years in the restive Casamance region in the country's south, where a separatist insurgency has dragged on for more than three decades.
Turkey's government has long faced an insurgency from within the restive Kurdish population that straddles the border, so any bolstering of Kurdish military strength is anathema to Turkey.
He arrived on Mindanao, in the Philippines' restive south, in 2014, where he sought out Mr. Hapilon and helped plan the Marawi siege and organize local terrorist cells.
Amid a Democratic electoral wave that swept through New York and beyond on Tuesday, one incumbent Democrat in a restive corner of residential Queens found herself cast ashore.
Binding the two economies more closely together, and handing goodies to some of the restive younger generation, could help offset the chill in relations between the two governments.
GENEVA (Reuters) - China expects U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to visit this year, including its restive Xinjiang region, its ambassador in Geneva said on Wednesday.
At the same time, Mr. Mugabe faced increasingly restive veterans of the independence war, a volatile constituency whose state-run pension funds had been looted by government officials.
In 1915, Ottoman Turks, fearful that the restive Christian Armenian population would side against them in the war, began massacring Armenians and force-marching them to their deaths.
This year an Islamist insurgency has ignited ethnic and religious tensions in Burkina Faso, rendering large parts of the country ungovernable, especially in northern areas bordering restive Mali.
Beijing accuses separatist extremists among the Uighur minority of plotting attacks on China's Han majority in the restive far western region of Xinjiang and other parts of China.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in a town in Ethiopia's restive Oromiya region on Thursday after police opened fire during a protest, witnesses said.
While voters give Trump high praise on the economy, numerous polls show the Democrats with a wide advantage, and show a public restive about the president's trade wars.
This year an Islamist insurgency has ignited ethnic and religious tensions in Burkina Faso, rendering large parts of the country ungovernable, especially in northern areas bordering restive Mali.
Economists of all political stripes argue that finding the right palliative for flat wages has taken on increasing urgency in the face of a frustrated and restive middle class.
Turkey's armed forces have been engaged in simultaneous, low-level fighting against both ISIS militants on the border with Syria and with restive Kurdish elements in Turkey and Syria.
Militants and community groups have also called for the independence of the restive southern Niger Delta oil hub, saying it should receive a greater share of Nigeria's energy wealth.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani official says gunmen have shot and killed one of his staff and wounded three security guards in the restive tribal region along the Afghan border.
The study also notes the BRI's role in developing China's west, including the restive region of Xinjiang, where millions of Muslims from the Uighur minority live under harsh repression.
The attacks are the latest in a series of bombings in the restive northeast that have killed at least 200 people since June 1, according to a Reuters tally.
Frequent in the 5003s, attacks by Islamic militants dropped off after the Sochi Olympics and the simultaneous crackdown on extremists in Russia's North Caucasus, including the once-restive Chechnya.
Local authorities have not declared a curfew, but instead clamped down on non-essential travel and gatherings of four or more people, effectively keeping restive people in their homes.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Three journalists held by Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels were freed on Friday after going missing over the past six days in the restive Norte de Santander province.
Indeed, will India speak up on the atrocities within in its own borders, from the skirmishes and internet shutdowns in Kashmir to the mutinous parts of its restive northeast?
RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's southern separatist movement called on Wednesday for an uprising in the restive port city of Aden and the southern provinces against the country's internationally-recognized government.
COSTLY INFRASTRUCTURE, RESTIVE COMMUNITIES Mining and oil projects in South America have sometimes been halted entirely by protests sparked by concerns about their impact on communities and the environment.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police in Thailand on Friday blamed the worst attack in years in the country's restive south on the region's main Muslim insurgent group, the Barisan Revolusi Nasional.
Democratic leaders hoping to mollify restive liberals through aggressive oversight of the Trump administration are facing early warning signs from the pro-impeachment crowd that it's simply not enough.
Hard-line conservatives rebelled to defeat the farm bill in May, and restive moderate Republicans tried to force the House to hold votes on immigration over Mr. Ryan's objections.
The stripes — one red, one light blue — demarcate the border between China's restive region of Xinjiang in the far west of the country and Kazakhstan, a Central Asian neighbor.
Ms. Pelosi's "cover-up" allegation, made immediately after a caucus meeting, was explicitly intended to placate restive elements of her caucus in an attempt to head off a revolt.
But European political leaders and business managers are nervous that the American leader could grow restive if the talks do not produce quick results — and they probably will not.
From failing to frame a message that matched the restive mood of the electorate to failing to go after Senator Bernie Sanders more aggressively during the Democratic primaries, Mrs.
What's next: The coalition's survival may hinge upon Mr. Sánchez's ability to help end Spain's long-simmering conflict over Catalonia, the restive northeastern region that is governed by separatists.
Elections might be most satisfying for a restive public, except that an electoral law approved last year is under court review and may now be obsolete after Sunday's referendum.
This is especially true since Iran faces its most existential threat from its own restive population, which launched a series of anti-government demonstrations in late December and January.
This is the time when U.S. officials should be assuring restive European nations that they have an alternative to an organization that seems to be in permanent crisis mode.
But such a broad exception around political speech seems extraordinarily unlikely, even in a restive legislative environment — such regulation is much more likely to center on privacy or election interference.
A CENTURY and a half of Kurdish history stares at Altan Tan from the photographs in his office on the outskirts of Diyarbakir, the heart of Turkey's restive south-east.
The suit, filed on Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, seeks to resolve a question of separation of powers at a time when the Council has become increasingly restive.
"The problem with our president, his mind is changing always," said Sharief, a cleric who has had roles in various peace agreements on the long-restive southern island of Mindanao.
He has called President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch" and said he would order the pullout of the remaining U.S. special forces stationed in the Philippines' restive south.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Authorities in Ethiopia's restive Oromiya province have pardoned over 2,000 prisoners jailed for involvement in unrest that gripped the country in 2015-2016, officials said on Friday.
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan opposition areas are calm a day after the country&aposs election commission postponed voting in four restive counties where deadly clashes between police and protesters have occurred.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Nigerian protesters blocked the entrance to a Chevron oil facility in the restive Niger Delta on Wednesday, demanding jobs and housing, a protest leader said.
A string of attacks on oil pipelines by militants in the restive Niger Delta has compounded Nigeria's economic problems and many investors have complained about the poor current business environment.
Restive rank-and-file House Democrats, after briefly considering a move to challenge all three of the top leaders in the lower chamber, settled instead on a challenge to Rep.
The weekend's killings in restive Rakhine state have essentially destroyed any hopes for a swift resolution to the fighting and a gradual restoration of communal ties, observers and diplomats say.
The restive Rakhine state is the home of the Rohingya community, or ethnic Muslims who have long faced persecution in the Buddhist-majority country, especially from the country's Buddhist extremists.
Little known internationally, Hu spent most of his career in the restive region of Tibet, then became governor of northern Hebei province, and later Communist Party boss in Inner Mongolia.
It means as much to Republicans who are desperate to show the spoils of their one-party rule in Washington to restive voters at the dawn of midterm election year.
And it wouldn't be the first time the world has turned a blind eye to human rights violations by the kingdom to preserve these creature comforts in a restive region.
Malik had worked for the paper for the past three years in the restive town of Tral, which is a hotbed of militancy in a decades-old Kashmiri separatist movement.
Pelosi also is the target of restive younger members who are demanding a new generation of leadership in the House, where the top three Democrats all are nearing their 80s.
The economy looks wan and Parliament is newly restive, securing yet another concession from the government in the week before Christmas over the possibility of changing the date for Brexit.
An escalation there could precipitate an escalation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, in Saudi Arabia's restive eastern provinces or in Iraq during parliamentary elections next month, he said.
Some have been attributed to the Islamic State and some to Kurdish insurgents, who last year ended a cease-fire and revived a bloody conflict in the country's restive southeast.
Criticism for Hatch at home While Hatch is revered for his long service to Utahns and easily won re-election last cycle after spending $10 million, voters are clearly restive.
It revealed a cable highlighting the opulence and self-dealing of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and his family, enraging his already restive and economically pinched public.
Restive shareholders are pressing the board to sell the Internet businesses and unlock Yahoo's large stakes in Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company, and Yahoo Japan, an independently traded company.
But behind the scenes, the Republican conference has been restive and many members privately question whether it's tenable for him to last out the year as a lame duck Speaker.
With the general in exile, Mr. Ghani sent government forces to arrest Nizamuddin Qaisari, the commander of the general's militia in restive Faryab province, who was also accused of abuses.
Just two provocative works by Samak Kosem, a gay Thai Muslim who uses art to explore how LGBT+ Thais in the restive south reconcile their religion with their sexual identity.
Ankara was always worried about what would happen if the Kurds of Syria got too powerful, and how that would spill across the border into Turkey's own restive Kurdish region.
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Indonesia has sent more than a thousand security personnel to quell protests in the restive provinces of Papua and West Papua, as violence spirals in the region.
Conservatives were growing restive with the bipartisan, alliance-building style that had led Mr. Milliken to court organized labor, to appoint Democrats to state jobs and to support abortion rights.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta's approach to the restive Papua region.
As she has corralled her restive members this year during the push for impeachment, Pelosi has carved out a persona that is the antithesis of Trump -- somber, dispassionate and restrained.
Since Xi came to power, China's increasingly harsh treatment of the Uyghurs -- a Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim minority group in China's restive far west -- has come under growing international scrutiny.
So there's something slightly rebellious and restive about making absurd, potentially inedible food out of a few carelessly slapped-together ingredients, defying the strictures of centuries of elaborate Chinese cooking.
So he formed a group of restive Sanders delegates, the Bernie Delegates Network, and is staging a press conference each morning on their behalf at the Marriott in downtown Philadelphia.
The campaign strikes at the heart of Beijing's effort to portray the camps as job training facilities, meant to improve detainees' lives and foster stability in a once-restive region.
He said the group included seven Swiss and five Italian tourists as well as six Cameroonian municipal officials, who were taken by English-speaking separatists in the restive southwest region.
Riyadh also accused Qatar of supporting what it described as Iranian-backed militants in the restive, largely Shi'ite Muslim-populated eastern Saudi region of Qatif, as well as in Bahrain.
Puigdemont, the former president of the long-restive Spanish region, was sacked by Madrid in October for spearheading the illegal drive for independence, and fled to Belgium to avoid arrest.
Amid inflammatory rhetoric against Iran -- a country dominated by Shia -- coming from the White House, King Salman seemed encouraged to send a clear message of terror to his restive Shia citizens.
AKSU, China (Reuters) - The Youngor cotton spinning factory is one of the biggest employers in Aksu, an agricultural town on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in China's restive Xinjiang region.
Detailing the coordination between his "Spiv" unit and police killing squads, the officer said police forces seek to instill fear in restive communities by eliminating protest organizers and known opposition supporters.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a family of seven people and injured three others on Thursday morning in the restive Ethiopian state of Oromia, the prime minister's home region, authorities said.
Due to Syria's strategic importance, Russia is willing to fall into the same trap it did in Afghanistan in the 1980s, propping up an unpopular regime against its restive native population.
U.S. stock futures opened to the downside in early trading Sunday, as investors grew increasingly restive in the wake of the U.K.'s decision to extricate itself from the European Union.
The video, released Sunday, anticipates a rapidly-expiring June 13 deadline set by the group, which is headquartered in the restive Muslim-majority province of Mindanao in the country's far south.
Tens of millions were slaughtered in a few brief decades during the 1800s — for their hides and fur and, not least, to subjugate restive Plains Indians by eliminating their food supply.
Duterte placed restive Mindanao, which has a population of 22 million, under military rule after the attack on Marawi, and martial law was due to be lifted there on Dec. 31.
As well as the Iraqi government, Turkey and Iran threatened to take tough action against any move towards secession, fearing it would encourage their own restive Kurdish populations to follow suit.
HANOI, Vietnam — An American drone strike on Saturday in a restive province of Pakistan killed Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, the White House confirmed on Monday.
India has moved an additional 10,000 paramilitary troops into the restive region, because of the security situation, training requirements and the need for rotation, a home ministry official said on Friday.
For weeks, Republican leaders have been coordinating closed-door meetings in search of a partisan compromise that satisfies both the centrist reformers and the conservative immigration hawks in their restive conference.
Mr. Trump told the restive crowd that his advisers wanted him to focus on his core economic message, but that he had no intention of allowing his critics to go unanswered.
ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a $10 billion infrastructure program on Thursday in its restive Delta region as part of a plan to end an insurgency that has hobbled oil production.
The pipeline runs through Turkey's restive southeast, which has seen the worst violence since the 1990s after a two-year ceasefire between the government and Kurdish militants broke down last July.
China is very nervous at the prospect Islamist militants from its restive far western region of Xinjiang getting support from the Taliban and other groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan and central Asia.
The statement went on to accuse Qatar of supporting what it described as Iranian-backed militants in its restive and largely Shi'ite Muslim-populated Eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain.
Mr. Muhly's style is inherently restive — it's all unsettled motion, shot through with tender exhalations — but the sound world is so hyper-polished and unvarying that the restlessness feels paradoxically static.
Sanchez said that if he took power he would stick to the budget approved by Rajoy, and would also seek to start a new dialogue with the restive region of Catalonia.
Faced with restive voters, politicians will inevitably wonder whether fixing these issues wouldn't be easier if they took back control of policy rates, or gave central banks a different mandate altogether.
The warning shots at Biden come as Trump is message-testing ways to drive up excitement among his restive base while struggling with the enormous responsibilities of managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan and India, where the Indian government's move to wipe out the autonomy of the restive - and disputed - Kashmir region, has put rival nuclear powers, and the region, on edge. Afghanistan.
When Iran conducted a mass hanging in August of Sunni prisoners accused of attacks in its restive western Kurdish region, the executions were widely criticized as an egregious human rights violation.
The final phase of the local polls is set for June 14, when the restive southern plains, home to ethnic minority groups demanding greater representation, will head to the ballot box.
It is down below, in Serbia and Kosovo, where old angers are resurfacing as the Balkan region that spawned so much suffering over the last century is again becoming dangerously restive.
The incidents underscore the challenges that Waters, who is 81 and entered Congress in 1991, and other House leaders face in pulling together a restive caucus that has become increasingly polarized.
Thousands more are unable to cross the border, according to the migration office, or have found temporary shelter in Sittwe, the capital of the restive state of Rakhine in western Myanmar.
But Ms. McGrath's victory showed that many campaign conventions might not apply this year with a restive electorate angry at the inertia in Washington and the turbulence of the Trump presidency.
I met him on a Friday morning in the windswept plaza of the looming Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, a giant brick fortress built eight centuries ago to awe the region's restive heretics.
McConnell had canceled the August recess after being pushed by restive conservatives in his caucus to stay in session to approve Trump's picks and make progress on oft-delayed spending bills.
Farther north, in restive Kunduz Province, where the Taliban have twice overrun the capital city in the last year and a half, the government had some welcome news for a change.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The western media is guilty of "double standards" when it comes to reporting on China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, the official China Daily said in an editorial on Friday.
Arab residents under YPG rule who have been complaining of lack of basic services and discrimination against them in local administrations run by Kurdish officials have been growing restive in recent months.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Prominent community leaders in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil hub threatened on Monday to pull out of peace talks with the government unless their demands were met by Nov. 1.
For a few days at least, Pelosi's steps to confront and condemn the President could alleviate some of the pressure building up from restive Democrats angry that she has slow walked impeachment.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed in the restive Mexican states of Michoacan and Guerrero, Mexican authorities said on Sunday, amid feuds between rival drug gangs that have racked the country.
Last month members of an oil prospecting team were kidnapped in the restive Lake Chad Basin region, prompting a rescue bid that left at least 37 dead including members of the team.
Further stoking supply, Royal Dutch Shell has resumed crude exports from the Forcados terminal in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta following repairs after a militant attack, the Nigerian presidency said late on Tuesday.
Pulwama, their home district, is part of restive south Kashmir, the hotbed of an armed insurgency against the Indian government that has raged on for nearly 30 years, killing some 50,000 people.
Among the few projects Osinbajo got underway are the legalizing of illicit refineries in the restive Niger Delta oil hub, often the only work for youth who tend to join otherwise militants.
Switching focus to politics, Spain's central government took the unprecedented step of firing the government of Catalonia on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to prevent the restive region's push for independence.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - More than 100 migrant workers from India's Kashmir will be moved after a spate of killings by suspected separatist militants underlined the threat to outsiders in the restive region.
Her victory over Crowley was a reflection of shifting demographics in certain urban districts, but also revealed a keen new hunger for generational change and fresh ideas within the restive Democratic Party.
As part of the coalition agreement, Mr. Dahal promised to address the demands of the Madhesi people, a minority ethnic group who live on Nepal's plains near a restive border with India.
Although better known for its opium production, Myanmar, a country with restive and porous borders, is a major producer and exporting hub of low-purity pills made primarily of caffeine and methamphetamine.
In 2009, Ms. Quynh was detained for more than a week after writing about a bauxite mining project in Vietnam's restive Central Highlands, in which investors included a state-owned Chinese company.
Look for restive House conservatives (especially the Freedom Caucus) to pressure leadership on everything, including health-care payments, the budget (not nearly enough cuts or entitlement reforms), the wall, and tax reform.
At least 22 people were wounded in a bombing in the restive eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, a government official said, although there was no claim of responsibility for that attack.
His appointment was intended to be a reassuring signal to the vocal and restive members of Mr. Trump's populist, anti-Washington base who are suspicious of power and anyone who holds it.
It is not yet clear who could physically lead the next administration in Spain's restive region: The coalition talks involve party leaders who are either in self-imposed exile or in jail.
All flights have been canceled to Badakhshan Province, in Afghanistan's restive northeast, where residents of at least four provinces under heavy Taliban pressure had relied on Kam Air to get to Kabul.
Modi's abrupt decision this month to cancel the mainly Muslim region's autonomous status triggered weeks of protests, mainly in the restive district of Soura, which has emerged as the center of discontent.
So even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struggles to keep restive conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee on board, lingering concerns from moderates like Murkowski could signal the bill's demise.
The two experts — Ms. Catalán, 36, a Swedish-Chilean, and Michael Sharp, 34, an American — were shot dead by a group of men in March in the restive Kasai region of Congo.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Suspected gang members shot down a helicopter in a clash with police in restive western Mexico on Tuesday, killing four people, the governor of the state of Michoacan said.
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is tapping his star global diplomat, Chrystia Freeland, to help bridge a divide with what increasingly feels like a foreign country to his Liberal Party: Canada's restive Western provinces.
His base, which has become increasingly restive with every day that passes without a plan on how to build the border wall, will eat up the raw and uncut version of Trump.
JAKARTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta's approach to the restive Papua region.
That's how Joyce Gold describes a moment of inflection she experienced several years ago, when a history book opened her eyes to the restive ghosts of Lower Manhattan hiding in plain sight.
Despite having ascended to the presidency on a carefully-crafted image as a dealmaker, Trump was unable to convince recalcitrant Democrats, and even a few restive GOP members, to drop their opposition.
The roles were created by the caucus last week in response to cries for broad changes — sounded largely by restive new members — following the party's disastrous performance at the polls this year.
The attack struck at the heart of still-fragile efforts by the government and rival armed groups to work together to quell violence that has plagued the restive desert north for years.
He feigns diabetes to escape the draft, and wanders north, dabbling in odd jobs and drug dealing before returning to the reservation and getting himself elected chairman of his increasingly restive tribe.
That prompted Mr. Rajoy to impose direct rule from Madrid over the restive region and oust its separatist government, led by Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Brussels to avoid prosecution in Spain.
Identifying a qualified candidate — a person with extensive banking and management experience, the credibility to pacify regulators and the skill to shepherd a company with 103,000 restive employees — will be a challenge.
Sanchez, who is due to meet Catalan leader Quim Torra on July 9, said his administration would seek to reduce tensions with the restive region, following a failed secession attempt last year.
The scheme is part of Beijing's plan to increase social mobility between Hong Kong and its hinterland and bring the restive former British colony deeper into its China's political and economic fold.
And in a wider sense, the attacks, preceded by other terrorist incidents in Jordan and Yemen in recent days, underline the restive, complex world of terror threats, unrest and geopolitical tensions awaiting Trump.
SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) - Fighting raged on Monday between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey as the cabinet met in the restive region to discuss ways of rebuilding its shattered economy.
DOHA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a Saudi child and a Pakistani man during an attack on workers at a building project in restive eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the interior ministry said on Friday.
MADRID (Reuters) - The upper house of Spain's parliament on Friday authorized the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid, minutes after the restive region declared independence from Spain.
Drivers in a restive Chinese province will be required to install GPS trackers on their cars, the Associated Press reports, as part of a public safety measure that the government announced this week.
The latest US deaths came Thursday when two US soldiers were killed, and two more wounded, during a joint operation with Afghan forces in the restive and violence-torn region of Kunduz. Gen.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Police in Indonesia's restive province of Papua have detained a Pole suspected of working as a journalist to cover issues related to illegal activity, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
AKSU, China, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The Youngor cotton spinning factory is one of the biggest employers in Aksu, an agricultural town on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in China's restive Xinjiang region.
The restive southern swampland region has been rocked by violence against oil and gas pipelines since the start of the year, reducing the OPEC member's output by 700,000 bpd to 1.56 million bpd.
RESTIVE WEEKEND Demonstrators threw up barricades across Hong Kong at the weekend, as police fired tear gas into crowded underground train stations as well as rubber bullets and pepper pellets at close range.
Nigeria's output had improved in recent months, after the government managed to end militant attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta by opening peace talks with leaders in the restive oil hub.
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine troops killed two bomb couriers at an army checkpoint Wednesday before the suspected Muslim militants could detonate the explosives in a crowded area in the restive south, military officials said.
Restive Democrats urging the impeachment of President Trump are amplifying their case Wednesday following new reports suggesting Trump pressed the FBI to drop a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Rep.
"She knows hardship," said Bonilla, almost proudly, of his wife, who had lived in a restive part of Honduras, but even that might not blunt the shock when his family arrived in America.
Gun-toting police officers and armies of secret ones ensure that few dare openly to express support for the notion in Tibet and Xinjiang, traditionally restive regions in the west of the country.
All this might explain why Israeli right-wingers are, unusually, complaining that Mr Sisi has been too tough on the Palestinians by cutting traffic and tunnels between Gaza and the restive Sinai peninsula.
An increasingly restive public is raising the pressure on governments around the world to act more decisively to slow emissions amid evidence that catastrophic climate change is becoming an ever more real prospect.
In the United States, two wars without victory that involved vast expenditure of blood and treasure — wars in which Australia (as ever) fought alongside America — have contributed to a mood of restive frustration.
A Reuters investigation of 20 killings by FAES, which is accused of summary executions in restive neighborhoods, found that the official versions that officers acted in self-defense were contradicted by witness accounts.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of school teachers joined an 11th weekend of anti-government protests in Hong Kong on Saturday, as shops pulled down their shutters and braced for another restive summer night.
Chen Quanguo, 22, was promoted to party chief of the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, bringing along with him the tough ethnic management policies he implemented at his previous post in Tibet.
According to the police, Mr. Dimaukom, the mayor of Datu Saudi-Ampatuan, a town of about 20,000 on the restive southern island of Mindanao, was killed after his guards opened fire on officers.
Tillerson landed in New Delhi on Tuesday night after a day-trip to India's arch rival, Pakistan, which he called an important U.S. ally in the restive region that includes war-torn Afghanistan.
Many establishment liberals still hope that the partnership between untrammeled capitalism and liberal democracy can be patched up, but a growing and restive chorus of radical and reformist voices roots for their separation.
"  Zelizer noted Trump's approval ratings and the Russia probes, adding, "he has a restive and angry Congress, and he has Republican elected officials, many of whom are unhappy with how everything has unfolded.
The President's road to a congressional win could be paved by passing the first sweeping tax reform package in decades, which would appease restive Republican voters and represent an undeniable personal political triumph.
The government said Thursday that it had decided to suspend the restive region's autonomy under Article 222 of the country's constitution, after Catalonia President Carles Puigdemont refused to drop his push for independence.
A focused blast of restive, energetic postbop, it was recorded in a single take with the same working trio that will surfaces here, featuring Sean Conly on bass and Chad Taylor on drums.
Restive Democratic activists were not happy; they poured out of a sweltering synagogue (there was no air-conditioning on a steamy summer evening) onto the streets of Park Slope, frazzled by the heat.
A world inhabited only by robots, their billionaire owners and a large and increasingly restive population is the plotline for countless dystopian fantasies, but it's a reality that appears to be drawing closer.
The Republican has promised a focus on burying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's legislative priorities, but without a robust GOP agenda it could prove unsatisfying for lawmakers facing restive voters ahead of 2020 elections.
If confirmed, the incident would be the fourth suicide bombing in the restive southern Philippines in 14 months, adding to fears about the depth of Islamic State's influence in the mainly Muslim region.
Said Sarwar Hussain, a spokesman for the Afghan police in the north of the country, said a unit of about 300 American special forces would be based in the restive province of Faryab.
Indian security forces shot dead seven civilians and wounded dozens of others on Saturday during a protest over the killing of three militants in a gun battle in restive Kashmir, the authorities said.
Canadian criticism of the deal increased after videos emerged showing Saudi security services using the vehicles in a restive enclave of Saudi Arabia's minority Shiite population, where residents sometimes clashed with government forces.
In a televised speech last Thursday, Modi said the decision to strip the state of its autonomy would free it of "terrorism" and claimed the decision would bring stability to the restive territory.
MANILA — Islamist militants seized an elementary school in the restive southern Philippines on Wednesday, holding 31 hostages, including students, for about 12 hours before escaping into a vast marshland area, the military said.
Sanchez had promised Esquerra Republicana to open a round of dialogue over the future of the restive region with Catalan leaders in exchange for the party's crucial abstention during his investiture in Parliament.
Analysts think that Iran, which has severe economic problems and a restive population at home, will now seek to avoid open conflict with the United States while opportunistically striking back against American interests.
The Hamas-hired public servants have grown restive and in 2014 protested over their lack of payment which is partly due to a continued blockade imposed on Gaza by both Israel and Egypt.
Heightening the stakes further, some states in the Middle East are widely considered to be happy to stoke anti-American or anti-Israeli sentiment as a pressure valve for their own restive populations.
The referendum, which was declared illegal by Spanish courts, led to a short-lived declaration of independence by leaders in the restive northeastern region, plunging Spain into its biggest political crisis in decades.
MADRID — Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez, seeking Parliament's backing to form a government, pledged to resolve the Catalan dispute through dialogue as he received renewed support from separatists in the restive region.
The pipeline runs through Turkey's restive southeast, which is engulfed in the worst violence since the 1990s after a two year-long ceasefire between the state and Kurdish militants broke down last July.
Some officials and academics question whether Abiy can control a restive population, amid outbreaks of deadly ethnic violence, and deliver promised economic and political reforms without the system he has allowed to fray.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese paramilitary troops staged high altitude, anti-terror training in the Pamir mountains in the restive Xinjiang region in western China, according to a video broadcast by state television on Thursday.
Internet and text messaging services were suspended by government order in parts of Delhi on Thursday, mobile carriers said, widening a communications clampdown in restive areas stretching from disputed Kashmir to the northeast.
ONITSHA, Nigeria, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Protesters blocked the entrance to a Chevron oil depot in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta for a third day on Thursday, demanding jobs and housing, a protest leader said.
TEHRAN — A suicide bomber killed at least 27 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and wounded 13 on a bus in a restive region of southeast Iran on Wednesday, Iranian media reported.
At noon today, that clogged Congress is being disrupted, with Democrats taking over the House due to victories by activist, restive, insistent freshmen who will change both the face and tone of official Washington.
Malaysia has long been a strong critic of Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya, a heavily-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority of around one million people who live in Rakhine, a restive state in Western Myanmar.
The new, and potentially very problematic, dynamic: For months there have been quiet questions in both chambers about whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi can wrangle her restive caucus on a big must-pass spending deal.
Although militants in Mali's restive center and north have pledged loyalty to international groups like al Qaeda and Islamic State, the jihadists draw chiefly on local grievances against the central government and ethnic rivalries.
This means they exercise two hours per day on three different machines—a bike, a treadmill, and the so-called Advanced Restive Exercise Device, ARED—to prevent loss of bone density and muscle mass.
MANILA (Reuters) - Sixteen people were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas eve mass in the Philippines' restive southern island of Mindanao, a priest and police said on Saturday.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese police have arrested and charged 24 people over an shooting attack in its restive southern Casamance region earlier this month that left 14 villagers dead, a regional prosecutor said on Thursday.
Somalia, which borders restive Kenya and lies across the Gulf of Aden from conflict-wracked Yemen, began to fall apart in 2040, when warlords ousted dictator Siad Barre and then turned on each other.
Just why Hades takes a shine to Eurydice is among the details left vague in "Hadestown" — perhaps during the six months when Persephone is allowed to roam the earth he grows a little restive.
Shi'ite groups across the region accused Saudi Arabia of using terrorism as a pretext to execute Nimr, a figurehead for the kingdom's restive Shi'ite population who calls for peaceful protests in sermons broadcast online.
My character tends to be ruthless and secretive, but if I lean too hard on ambushes and treachery, the bluff, courageous members of my party will become restive while the merciless killers are pleased.
To be clear, this was forced on them by restive moderates, and even if somehow they were able to pull off passage of the GOP compromise proposal, it has no future in the Senate.
Instead, Mr. Ryan finds himself essentially slouching toward Cleveland, hampered in the House by restive Republicans and emboldened Democrats, and his spotlight taken by a nominee who has yet to fully earn his respect.
Tillerson, who flew in from Pakistan which he called an important U.S. ally in the restive region, also held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is driving closer ties with the United States.
Sunday's bombing was claimed by ISIS raising fears of an increase in violence in the country's restive Mindanao region, following a referendum last week in which an overwhelming majority of voters backed self-rule.
Shi'ite groups across the region accused Saudi Arabia of using terrorism as a pretext to execute Nimr, a figurehead for the kingdom's restive Shi'ite population who called for peaceful protests in sermons broadcast online.
Clearly, much of the blame rests on the unwillingness or incapacity of Honduras' political elites to reform their institutions of justice and governance, relying instead on force to keep a restive population at bay.
Islamic State's killing of two Chinese nationals in the restive Baluchistan province in June highlighted the risks posed by Islamist militants, who may see them as soft targets in their war with the state.
In dueling declarations, Spain's Senate voted Friday to approve emergency measures to impose direct rule on Catalonia and to oust its separatist leaders, shortly after the restive region's Parliament passed a resolution claiming independence.
Already in 2018, he has appeared on the premiere recording of Steve Reich's "Pulse," as well as on the composer Wang Lu's "Cloud Intimacy" — a restive composition, inspired by the mechanisms of online dating.
The government in Madrid moved quickly to crush the Catalan secession movement as a violation of the Spanish Constitution and to strip the restive region — at least temporarily — of most of its autonomous powers.
BARCELONA, Spain — The standoff over Catalonia intensified significantly on Thursday as the Spanish government said it would take emergency measures to halt a secessionist drive in the economically vital and politically restive northeastern region.
Nadia Lachance, 250, who works in photo production, was making a batch of hands with the fingers crossed: an apt symbol for the group's mood, both restive and optimistic (the red wine was flowing).
The perpetrator, a restive stranger we will come to know as Elwood (played with chilling unpredictability by Christopher Abbott), has dark business with Lila (Imogen Poots), the young wife of one of the victims.
Turkey, which has a large and restive Kurdish minority, is concerned that the Syrian Democratic Forces have carved out an autonomous semi-state in northeastern Syria that could pose a threat to its security.
EBay said on Friday that it would consider selling the ticket-sales service StubHub, its classified advertising unit and other assets in a potential revamping of the online retailer meant to appease restive shareholders.
It is now wracked with near-daily violence from extremists pouring over its northern border with Mali and Niger, restive farmers and herdsmen battling for land, and militias bent on vengeance for each attack.
DAKAR, Senegal — Dozens of students kidnapped from a boarding school in a restive region of Cameroon were freed late Tuesday after being held hostage for about two days, according to local and military officials.
Northern Ireland, too, where a majority of people voted to Remain, may become restive if its open border with the Republic of Ireland, a mainstay member of the European Union, is placed in doubt.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive border area, urging the two sides to resolve their differences through peaceful means instead.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez, seeking parliament's backing to form a government, pledged to resolve the Catalan dispute through dialogue as he received renewed support from separatists in the restive region.
Sanchez already won approval last week when he appointed a majority of women in his cabinet and initiated a tentative dialogue with the restive region of Catalonia, breaking away from the policies of Rajoy.
The best college football coaches will get statues outside their stadiums, and they'll stand there, scowling in bronze, sternly pointing the way forward in all weather; the rest serve at the mercy of restive subjects.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament will vote to move the capitals of two mainly Kurdish provinces, according to draft legislation submitted on Tuesday, in an apparent effort to tighten strategic control over the restive southeastern region.
Previous terrorist attacks on Russian transport infrastructure, such as the bombings of Moscow's metro in 2004 and 2010, and its international airport in 2011, have been linked to insurgencies in the restive North Caucasus region.
As Trump tries to reassure restive party regulars that he's a dependable standard-bearer, this oddity -- combined with reporting from the Times, CNN and other news outlets about his conduct toward women -- reinforces their anxieties.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Thursday that it had destroyed 13 illegal refineries in the restive Niger Delta oil hub, in an operation in which two soldiers died in clashes with "sea robbers".
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army sunk several boats carrying dozens of soldiers and police officers taken hostage by rebels in the restive western Rakhine state, the Arakan Army said on Sunday, adding that many had died.
A group of 39 opposition activists will be released from prison including Daniel Ceballos, former mayor of the restive western city of San Cristobal, according to a list published by Supreme Court president Maikel Moreno.
Some regimes have embraced emerging technologies the better to control and surveil people: China, for instance, has blanketed its restive regions of Xinjiang and Tibet with facial-recognition cameras, iris scanners and other such kit.
MADRID – Fervent Catalan secessionist Quim Torra has been sworn in as the restive Spanish region&aposs new leader, with his demands for an independent Catalonia set to prolong a standoff with Spain&aposs national government.
Mufti Sayeed's party, the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party, gained popularity in the restive region on a promise to bring a "healing touch," and he was praised for his efforts to bring about reconciliation.
Catalonia's exiled separatist leader Carles Puigdemont announced Thursday that he was dropping his bid to be reappointed president of the restive Spanish region, in a bid to find a way out of a political impasse.
The demobilization of the FARC in 2017 left a power vacuum in restive regions around the Andean country, sparking bloody competition between remaining armed groups for control of lucrative drug trafficking and illegal mining operations.
President Joko Widodo has sought to ease tension in the restive region, which became part of Indonesia after a controversial U.N.-backed referendum in 1969, by freeing prisoners, addressing rights concerns and stepping up investment.
The training drill, dubbed Synergy 2018, came three days after Kosovo police used force to scatter Serb protesters in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo's restive North and briefly detained a Serbian government official.
Though Feinstein has angered the restive portion of the progressive Democratic base here, few longtime California consultants and pollsters are ready to hazard a guess about just how large that portion of the party is.
Another nine million Nepalis are eligible to vote in the second phase of elections set for June 14 that includes the restive southern plains where Madhesi groups are demanding constitutional change to address their grievances.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila pledged on Wednesday to restore order to the country's restive Kasai region, where a worsening insurgency poses the most serious threat to his 16-year rule.
Bahrain, a Sunni-ruled island kingdom with a restive Shi'ite majority, accused Iran of "blatant and dangerous interference" in the affairs of the Gulf Arab countries, in a statement announcing the severing of diplomatic ties.
Spain's deputy prime minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said that the restive region had until Thursday to back down on its push for independence, or it would face the imposition of direct rule from Madrid.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has for the first time accepted mediation by South Sudan's leader in peace talks over the restive Sudanese border regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, a Sudanese official said on Sunday.
On the other hand, Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, Spain's restive northeastern region, and the nerve center of a drive for Catalan independence that is described by its opponents as parochial, exclusive and nationalist.
The matches were dull, a record crowd grew restive at witnessing the inevitable coronation of Roman Reigns, and ticket processing problems were bad enough that a real threat to people's health was in the offing.
Both understood the fact that voters were bored as well as angry, mistrustful of the liberal consensus, angry at globalization's predations, restive for grandeur, thirsty for the outspoken rather than the dutiful warnings of experts.
That raises the likelihood that his next government will neither be able to start ambitious reforms, nor solve Spain's territorial conflict in Catalonia, the restive northeastern region that has split down the middle on independence.
MOSCOW — At least four police officers were injured on Monday in a series of attacks in the mountain republic of Chechnya, Russian law enforcement authorities said, raising fears of renewed violence in the restive region.
LAGOS, Nigeria — In recent days, independence votes in restive parts of Spain and Iraq have captured the world's attention, leading to street clashes, angry threats from aggrieved politicians and even heated words from a king.
Abdul Razaq Qaderi, the deputy police chief of Balkh Province, said Mr. Nasim, who was arrested, came from neighboring Baghlan Province, from the restive Dand-e-Ghori area, which is largely controlled by the Taliban.
"What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies," Dimaguila said, adding that the proceeds would be donated to people directly affected by the restive volcano.
"A world inhabited only by robots, their billionaire owners and a large and increasingly restive population is the plotline for countless dystopian fantasies, but it's a reality that appears to be drawing closer," Reich writes.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has suspended mining in the restive northwestern state of Zamfara, a presidential aide and the police chief said on Sunday, amid concerns that illegal miners were connected to a surge in banditry.
BARCELONA, Spain — The conflict with the restive northeastern region of Catalonia has entered a "new phase" with the sentencing of its former separatist leaders to prison this week, said Spain's caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
He must protect his right flank from a restive Freedom Caucus, which counts as one of its founders Mr. Jordan, a ferocious Trump acolyte who helped derail Mr. McCarthy's bid for the speakership in 2015.
"What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies," Dimaguila said, adding that the proceeds would be donated to people directly affected by the restive volcano.
The restive southern swampland region has been rocked by violence against oil and gas pipelines since the start of the year, reducing the OPEC member's output by 700,000 barrels a day to 1.56 million bpd.
An exciting new work was introduced at David Geffen Hall that evening when Yo-Yo Ma and the Philharmonic, led by Alan Gilbert, performed Esa-Pekka Salonen's restive, cosmic and formidably difficult new Cello Concerto.
The protest comes after midfielder Mesut Ozil of English soccer club Arsenal caused a furore in China after he criticised the country's policies toward the Muslim ethnic minority in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.
The appointment comes nearly two months after Beijing placed the NEA's former head, Nur Bekri, a top ethnic Uighur official and former governor of the restive western region of Xinjiang, under investigation for suspected graft.
One election worker was killed by a stray bullet in Rivers State, a restive region where six civilians and one soldier also died in a shootout, in a separate incident, according to civil society groups.
Philippines: A grenade lobbed into a mosque in the city of Zamboanga killed two Muslim religious leaders, the second attack in a matter of days on a place of worship in the country's restive south.
It's yet another savvy move by Ms. Pelosi to help keep a restive progressive caucus on her side — a unity that'll be crucially important for the battles with Mr. Trump that are sure to come.
In Iran, where a suicide bomber in the restive southeast killed at least 27 members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday, the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said the Warsaw conference would change nothing.
Mike Pence as his running mate on Saturday after days of speculation, a pick that many restive conservatives were quick to praise even as his Democratic opponents sharpened their lines of attack against the GOP ticket.
In 1990, I shared a bus ride with young Chinese Uighurs, Muslims from China's restive northwest, who had spent months training in Pakistani madrasas, including a brief foray into Afghanistan to get a taste of battle.
The role of an opposition should be to challenge the government, but Britain's Labour Party has begun the new year at war with itself as leader Jeremy Corbyn struggles to assert his authority over restive lawmakers.
Karwan, the special forces commander killed Thursday, was stationed in Afghanistan&aposs restive eastern province of Paktika, where he worked closely with U.S. special forces, said Mohammad Nader Katawazi, a member of parliament from the province.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will build a second railway line connecting restive and remote Tibet with others parts of China that will link Tibetan capital Lhasa with the southwestern city of Chengdu, the government said on Saturday.
But Tung stepped down mid-way through his second term, and Leung was prevented from running for a second term as restive citizens were angered by what they saw as Chinese encroachments on the city's freedoms.
Ryan and members of his restive Republican coalition, especially those who still face primary races, also can ill afford to alienate the legions of Trump supporters that have transformed politics back home in their own states.
In a motion read out in the Senate on Tuesday, Yahaya Abdullahi, said the exit from recession was largely due to favourable oil prices and increased domestic production with relative peace in the restive Niger Delta.
Sharmila aimed to force the repeal of the ArmedForces Special Powers Act, which grants armed forces legal impunity and broad authority to violate civil rights in the name of "security" in restive parts of the country.
Ali al-Amin, a Lebanese analyst and researcher, says Riyadh seems to believe the real threat comes from Sunni rivals such as Islamic State and a restive young Saudi population indoctrinated with Wahhabi prejudice against Shi'ites.
That has often run against the instincts of her own Bundestag deputies, and it was Kauder's job, as a link between party leadership and increasingly restive lawmakers, to soothe and cajole them into backing the chancellor.
Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters on Saturday - sending tourists fleeing weeping in Kowloon - only for demonstrators to regroup and gather elsewhere during another tense, hot and restive weekend.
The victims disappeared last Sunday after they were ambushed by militants on a main road in North Kivu's restive Beni territory, where more than 800 people were killed in dozens of massacres between 2014 and 2016.
SRINAGAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A prominent Kashmiri human rights activist who was released from prison on Wednesday said his two-month detention had strengthened his resolve to highlight violations against prisoners in India's restive Himalayan state.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Six hundred Indonesian soldiers will finish building a highway in the province of Papua, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, after 16 construction workers were killed by separatists in the restive area last year.
YENAGOA, Nigeria June 10 (Reuters) - An explosion hit a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Nigeria's state oil company in the West African country's restive Delta region late on Thursday, a security official said on Friday.
Governance and credit ratings have improved and foreign investment has picked up, even in the long restive southern island of Mindanao, where Mr Aquino's government nearly finalised a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency.
Amman, Jordan (CNN)Jordanians turned out Sunday for a fifth day of angry anti-austerity protests, a restive outpouring against government tax legislation and an IMF plan calling for an increase in taxes and energy prices.
It was a convenient target in this restive moment that has also made Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee — and may now take him further still on a similar wave of nativism and anti-establishment rage.
President Rodrigo Duterte is keen to follow through on his election campaign promise to introduce federalism, saying it would be more equitable for Filipinos and would bring peace and development, especially in the country's restive south.
The government is concerned hardliners in the group have been in contact with extremists in the Middle East with a view to setting up Islamic State cells in the restive south of the vast archipelago nation.
New Delhi (CNN)India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulled out of a coalition government in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, potentially destabilizing the already restive region ahead of national elections in 2019.
It was the most shocking result of 2018's political season so far, and -- though Democrats have avoided intra-party feuds so far this year -- could signal a restive base as the 2020 presidential primary approaches.
India has attempted to justify its move in Kashmir by claiming that bringing the state deeper into the national fold will both tackle separatist militancy in the restive region and bring it greater development and prosperity.
Rights monitors have raised concerns over media freedom in Myanmar after a journalist at an English-language newspaper said she was fired following government criticism of her reporting on a crisis in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The leader of one of Cameroon's main opposition parties was released by his captors on Saturday after being abducted by unidentified gunmen in the country's restive Anglophone region a day earlier, his party said.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines ordered the forced evacuation of people from two more municipalities near a restive volcano on Monday as the chief volcanologist warned of a possible hazardous eruption "within weeks or even within days".
In the absence of constitutional legitimacy — a vacuum created by Mr. Mugabe — the military will seek favor in the court of public opinion, with a restive citizenry desperate for any leader offering a remotely better life.
Gunmen killed at least 25 people and wounded 60 on Saturday in an attack on a military parade in a restive Iranian province that is home to most of the country's Arab minority, state media said.
The original caption reads: Thai schoolchildren on Thursday looked through the remains of a school building that was said to have been set on fire by separatist militants in a district of the restive Narathiwat Province.
But with Christmas coming, his political base increasingly restive and a cloud of legal troubles enveloping the White House, the president decided to pull the trigger now, calculating that it would deliver him a quick win.
Deutsche Bank acknowledged on Wednesday that it had used faulty software to screen customer transactions for suspicious activity, another blow to the lender's reputation as top executives prepare to face restive shareholders at its annual meeting.
Mr. Meng's ministry arrests and interrogates political dissidents like the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, rounds up suspected separatists in restive areas such as Xinjiang, and arrests people protesting against environmental pollution or official corruption.
Drawn-out set pieces have become endemic in effects-driven vehicles and can stop a movie dead as filmmakers show off their cool toys (and budget) and ignore everything else, the story and restive audience included.
After two years of circuitous negotiations, London largely granted the restive Anguillans' request to secede from the federation with St. Kitts and Nevis and return to the mother country as a representative democratic dependency of Britain.
After two years of crippling U.S. sanctions (Iran's GDP contracted by nearly 10 percent in 2019), a restive public, and a U.S. administration willing to back up its diplomacy with force, the regime confronts existential choices.
In restive Muslim regions in southern Russia, Mr. Putin has empowered local leaders to enforce their interpretation of traditional Muslim values, partly in an effort to co-opt Islamist extremism, which has largely been driven underground.
The club might have been sending a signal to its slumping — and benched — third baseman, Chase Headley, or assuring its restive fan base that there was no need to panic because help was on the way.
The Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the restive semi-autonomous city, people familiar with the matter said.
No doubt some readers looking for steadier footholds will find the narrative too restive and ruthless for their taste, but this book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the wild ride.
At a party for Mr. Jones, Sue Bell Cobb, a former chief judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, said that he had overcome a culture of "toxic partisanship," reaching out to Republicans and electrifying restive Democrats.
Duterte placed the restive region of 22 million people under military rule on May 23 after Islamist militants took over parts of the southern Marawi City in what was the Philippines' biggest security crisis in years.
The agreement staved off a formal contempt vote against Barr and will give House Speaker Nancy Pelosi new evidence to put before her restive caucus to show that her strategy of pursuing investigations over impeachment is working.
Several businessmen say Modi's government needs to take swift action on the economy, but instead it seems preoccupied with the situation in Kashmir, which is under a lockdown after authorities curtailed the autonomy of the restive region.
Health Minister Sussan Ley's spending inquiry follows a 2015 expenses scandal where a government MP was unseated after billing taxpayers for a helicopter flight and comes with Turnbull languishing in polls and facing a restive party room.
One factor in the government's decision was a spate of attacks on holiday lodges at Lake Langano, and on Turkish textile factories in Sebeta, both in the restive Oromia region south of the capital, on October 5th.
They face resistance from a host of powerful opponents — Iran and Turkey, both wary of their own restive Kurdish populations, along with the Iraqi government and the Shiite militia who back it — and warnings of potential violence.
SANTANDER DE QUILICHAO, Colombia (Reuters) - Indigenous leader Edwin Mauricio Capaz pulls on a bulletproof vest every day before getting into the armored car he uses to travel around the restive part of ​​southwest Colombia he calls home.
Tension remains high in Kashmir, with security forces using tear gas against stone-throwing protesters in Srinagar on Friday, after a third straight week of protests in the restive Soura district despite the imposition of tight restrictions.
Turner witnesses those horrors thanks to his social-climbing master (Armie Hammer), who rents him out to other plantation owners -- offering a black minister whose sermons are seen as a way to calm Virginia's restive slave population.
The victims disappeared a week ago after they were ambushed by militants on a main road in North Kivu's restive Beni territory, where more than 800 people were killed in dozens of massacres between 2014 and 2016.
Obama's struggles to impose U.S. power in the restive Middle East and elsewhere help fuel a Republican narrative that his foreign policy is a bust, to which she is vulnerable as his first-term secretary of state.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Militants attacked the convoy of a minister in the restive Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, killing at least two bystanders and injuring several others though the minister escaped unhurt, police said.
Abdul Qudoos Bezenjo, former deputy speaker of the provincial assembly and member of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) party, was sworn in as third chief minister in four years in the restive southwestern province.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Gunmen in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo kidnapped two Catholic priests in an area at the center of over two years of massacres by unknown assailants, the country's conference of bishops said on Monday.
In an address on India's independence day, August 15th, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, avoided mention of Kashmir and instead lashed out at Pakistan, accusing it of human-rights violations in its own restive region of Balochistan.
Their attacks have driven Nigerian oil output to near a 22-year low and, if the violence escalates into another insurgency in the restive area, it could cripple production in a country facing a growing economic crisis.
Iran's restive Sistan and Baluchestan province, in the southeast on the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, is home to the Balouch minority and has long been a hotbed of Sunni insurgents fighting the Shi'ite-led Islamic Republic.
The incident took place in a restive area near the Syrian border, just outside the Lebanese town of Arsal, which Nusra Front and Islamic State fighters overran briefly in 2014 before withdrawing after clashes with the army.
Sharmila aimed to force the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which grants armed forces legal impunity and broad authority to violate civil rights in the name of "security" in restive parts of the country.
Aside from the candidates telling voters they'll oppose her Speakership bid, a growing number of restive incumbents — many of them newer members with fewer allegiances to the top brass — are itching to break into the leadership ranks.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese forces have killed the leader of an offshoot of a Hutu militia in the restive east of the country, the army said on Sunday, two months after killing the leader of the main faction.
MANILA (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a van in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in what militant group Islamic State called a suicide attack for which it claimed responsibility.
The opening came amid tensions after Serbia on Tuesday ordered its troops on full alert, following the arrests of at least 19 people in an anti-crime operation in restive northern Kosovo, mainly populated by ethnic Serbs.
MANILA (Reuters) - An explosion at a military base in the restive southern Philippines on Friday killed five people, including three soldiers, and wounded nine others in what Islamic State said was an attack by its suicide bombers.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The Spanish government has urged Catalans to accept Madrid's decision to dismiss their secessionist leadership and to take control of the restive region, as the nation's biggest political crisis in decades enters a decisive week.
A bomb attack outside a polling station in the city of Quetta, capital of the restive province of Balochistan, killed at least 31 people and injured dozens more as Pakistanis voted in the fiercely contested general election.
The influential Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, in a sharply worded statement, said the dam project on the Irrawaddy river was an "environmental disaster" that would also hurt prospects for peace in the restive region.
With their repeal, the restive region is now directly under the thumb of the BJP, which has also recently grabbed for itself the unilateral power to declare any individual a "terrorist" without any sort of due process.
Mike Capuano has conceded defeat to Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley in the Massachusetts primary for his US House seat Tuesday, the latest upset to rock the Democratic Party and showcase a restive base eager for change.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed the Ethiopia country manager of Nigeria's Dangote Industries on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive Oromiya region while returning to the capital from Ethiopia's largest cement factory, officials said.
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine on Wednesday refused to pull back troops in its restive east, saying for the second time this week that continued shelling by pro-Russian separatists there precluded the implementation of a disengagement agreement.
Mr. Abiy himself survived a grenade attack last year, and an attempted coup in the northern Amhara region in June revealed the restive political atmosphere brewing in the country ahead of the country's next election, in 2020.
Former LME chief executive Martin Abbott raised the concept of a rival platform to the LME after being approached by restive brokers, unhappy with fee hikes and an LME move to boost volumes by attracting more speculators.
Pelosi's critics are a grab bag of conservative members, restive progressives, and newly elected members from swing districts — all of whom are united more by a lack of seniority in Congress than by a distinct ideological perspective.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in China have arrested almost 5403,2540 "terrorists" in Xinjiang since 211, the government said on Monday, in a policy paper defending its controversial de-radicalisation measures for Muslims in the restive far western region.
Restive Bernie Sanders supporters at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia have taken up a new cause: the alleged mistreatment of Nina Turner, a Sanders delegate from Ohio, by the Democratic convention staff and the Clinton campaign.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May urged restive lawmakers to back her in the final stages of Britain's exit from the European Union, saying talks were in their most difficult phase even if a deal was close.
ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey has begun work to repair a pipeline taking crude oil from northern Iraq to the Mediterranean through its restive southeast and aims to restore flows soon, the Turkish energy ministry said on Saturday.
Moving against Barr and McGahn in such a manner, and potentially other senior administration officials who are blocking Democratic oversight gambits, could be a way for Pelosi to let off some of the steam in her restive caucus.
There were also reminders early on Monday of the restive world that Trump is inheriting, that in some cases appears to be reacting to his vow to ditch the conventions that have underpinned US foreign policy for decades.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita replaced his prime minister late on Saturday, naming the defense minister to head the government of the West African nation, which is struggling to end unrest in its restive desert north.
Amnesty, which regularly accuses India of human rights violations here in the restive Himalayan region of Kashmir, said more than five officials from the Enforcement Directorate raided its office, ordered employees to stay put and searched their desks.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines and Indonesia will jointly patrol the Celebes Sea this week to stop Islamist militants reaching the Philippines' restive southern island of Mindanao, where rebels have seized a city, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
With the Council increasingly restive, and its speaker eyeing the mayor's office himself, de Blasio's approach has invited a power grab by ambitious lawmakers intent on seizing control of the legislative agenda for the administration's final two years.
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed at least three civilians and wounded about 70 in restive Kashmir on Sunday when hundreds of people tried to prevent them from carrying out operations against suspected militants, police and residents said.
What China calls a de-radicalization program in its restive far western region of Xinjiang has also caused widespread opprobrium in Western capitals and amongst rights groups, who say authorities have been placing Muslims there in internment camps.
The new prediction is a sign the Spanish economy remains unaffected by a political crisis in Catalonia which has unnerved investors and prompted hundreds of companies to move out of the restive region or review investment plans there.
But GOP leaders have struggled repeatedly to unite their restive conference behind major spending bills, forcing them to reach across the aisle to prevent government shutdowns — and lending the Democrats a good deal of leverage in the process.
In the rolling hills of the Angoor Adda village in South Waziristan, part of Pakistan's restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), three rolls of barbed wire are sandwiched in the six-foot gap between the chain-link fences.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army said it had rescued 14 people seized by insurgents in restive Rakhine state after Arakan Army rebels reported many dead in military attacks on boats carrying soldiers and police said it had taken prisoners.
YANGON (Reuters) - Ethnic rebels in Myanmar have detained and interrogated a lawmaker and several Indian nationals, one of whom died, the rebels said on Monday, in the latest escalation of violence in the restive western state of Rakhine.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government has resumed cash payments for former militants in the restive Niger Delta, an official said on Monday, in a bid to end a wave a wave of militant attacks on oil and gas facilities.
Sharp increases in asylum applications and ongoing complacency with drug trafficking have forced Venezuela's problems to the U.S. Through strategic diplomacy and multilateral partnerships, the U.S. can work to restore calm to a restive country on the brink.
Republicans leaders, who have been scrambling to quell the internal rebellion, are hoping to broker an alternative deal to allow floor votes on immigration measures that are controlled by leadership and satisfy competing factions in their restive conference.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three Indonesian soldiers were killed in a clash with dozens of rebels in the eastern province of Papua, the military said late on Thursday, the latest deaths amid high tensions and violence in the restive region.
ONITSHA, Nigeria Oct 4 (Reuters) - A military exercise in Nigeria's restive southern Niger Delta oil production hub is unnecessary and the government should focus on economic development, an organisation representing the region's largest ethnic group said on Wednesday.
Among the reforms that the restive lawmakers are urging is a proposal to make the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) an elected position rather than an appointment from the top — a change Pelosi has resisted.
The second season of Succession, HBO's darkly funny drama about billionaire tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his restive, grown-up children, opens with an episode called "The Summer Palace," even though it takes place in the winter.
MANILA — A grenade was lobbed into a mosque in the southern Philippines before dawn on Wednesday, killing two Muslim religious leaders, in the second attack in days on a place of worship in the restive south, officials said.
Instead he was the product of a landscape that is both increasingly restive and fractured, where hate groups have gone underground, avoiding social gatherings and concerts, and newcomers need only the internet to become self-radicalized and violent.
By the time Chasen Shreve, Holder's replacement, allowed a solo home run to the pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe in the sixth inning, the crowd had turned restive, lustily booing Shreve as it had booed Holder leaving the mound.
More than anything, such fights are a reflection of his focus on what it takes to keep his restive populist base behind him, and a ritual of self-preservation intended to divert attention from other, more damaging narratives.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The lower house of Pakistan's Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a constitutional amendment on Thursday giving equal rights to millions of people in its restive northwestern tribal regions and ending a much-criticized legacy of British colonial law.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Internet and text messaging services were suspended by government order in parts of India's capital Delhi on Thursday, mobile carriers said, widening a communications clampdown in restive areas stretching from disputed Kashmir to the northeast.
The Hill's Mike Lillis reports: Restive Democrats urging the impeachment of President Trump are amplifying their case Wednesday following new reports suggesting Trump pressed the FBI to drop a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Rep.
The vice president also discussed security in Africa's most populous nation, which is contending with Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast and working to maintain a fragile peace in the restive southern Niger Delta oil-producing region.
Ambassadors from 37 countries signed a letter praising China's "contribution to the international human-rights cause", including in its restive western region of Xinjiang, where China has locked up perhaps 1m people, mostly Muslim Uighurs, in "vocational training" camps.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Nigeria's state oil company in the West African country's restive Delta region late on Thursday, a security official and a community leader both said on Friday.
OUAGADOUGOU/TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian kidnapped this week in a restive region of Burkina Faso has been found dead, a spokesman for the security ministry said on Thursday, drawing condemnation from the foreign ministers of Canada and Burkina Faso.
The weekend ban on Agnes Chow, a close ally of high-profile activist Joshua Wong, fuels wider fears of tightening political "red lines" by Beijing that could deny Hong Kong's restive young people any political outlet beyond street protest.
While Tim Cook has yet to publicly address the immigration ban that's beginning to rile a restive tech industry into speaking out against newly elected President Donald J. Trump, he did send an email to staff explaining Apple's position.
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India will go on hunting militants in Kashmir despite widespread protests over the killing of a young separatist commander, officials said, as the government bets that force coupled with development will quell rebellion in the restive state.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for a "great wall of iron" to safeguard the restive western region of Xinjiang after a top official said Islamist separatists pose the "most prominent" challenge to the country's stability.
They then took another lurch lower as oil hit the skids and signals emerged from Spain that Madrid was gearing up to invoke a never-before-used clause to re-impose central rule over the restive region of Catalonia.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday called for U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to respect its sovereignty, after she urged it to allow monitors into the restive far western region of Xinjiang and expressed concern about the situation there.
If Trump loses in a landslide, by contrast, the appeal of white grievance politics will fade and the Republican Party will become invested in doing what it takes to prevent restive whites from seeking succor in a new Trump.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Monday accused Uganda of carrying out extrajudicial executions as authorities in the east African country said 62 people had died in clashes between a tribal militia and security forces in a restive western region.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian scientists will continue to search for oil in the restive Lake Chad Basin region despite a kidnapping of some researchers by suspected Boko Haram members, a university and state oil firm NNPC said on Monday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters on Saturday - sending tourists fleeing weeping in Kowloon - only for demonstrators to regroup and gather elsewhere during another tense, hot and restive weekend.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) named the security adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as head of the restive Amhara region on Monday after his predecessor was killed in a violent attempt to seize power there.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian militant group the Niger Delta Avengers said it attacked an oil pipeline in Nigeria's restive southern energy hub on Tuesday and warned international oil companies (IOCs) not to carry out repairs on damaged energy infrastructure.
The poll reawakened fears among Democrats that Clinton's vulnerabilities, as well as the sheer length of time she has been on the political scene, may leave her struggling to appeal to a restive electorate unhappy with the Washington establishment.
Sanchez on Friday ruled out forming a "grand coalition" with PP. Challenged by his rivals on Catalonia, Sanchez, who has hardened his stance on the restive region, said he had tackled the protests with a firm and proportional response.
Surveillance measures long-used in restive areas such as Xinjiang in the northwest are also being rolled out more widely around the country, with a planned drive to centralize and standardize powerful but fragmented systems over the next year.
But General Munguía Payés, who was the military's negotiator with the guerrillas during the nation's devastating civil war, plays a crucial role in the current government as a force for political stability in the face of a restive military.
Around midnight on Friday, Mr. Basir, now in his 40s and the commander of a government militia in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, arrived at a compound in an area called Zyaratgah, part of the restive Qaisar District.
Restive Jammu and Kashmir's constitutional "special status" - a provision that allows the state to make its own laws - has kept it from implementing the Forest Rights Act, which gives indigenous people the right to inhabit and live off forests.
BERLIN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The leadership of Germany's Social Democrats, under pressure from a restive membership over flagging polls and disastrous regional election showings, did not discuss quitting the national coalition at a Monday meeting, the party's leader said.
Greco may have masterminded a three-year turnaround and a doubling of its share price, but he leaves Italy's biggest insurer without a clear successor, a capital base still short of peers, an untested growth strategy and restive investors.
Catalonia's pro-independence coalition splintered on Saturday over a proposal by Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of the restive Spanish region, to select his replacement from his own party while he remained in Belgium to avoid prosecution in Spain.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Armed men stormed the Kangbayi prison on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo, freeing more than 900 inmates, most of them charged with taking part in mass killings in the country's restive northeast.
Long the two most restive regions of Canada's federations, Alberta and Quebec have often shared similar complaints about an intrusive federal government; Quebec's concerns, in particular, have dominated the national agenda as the province occasionally flirts with leaving Canada.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who romped to re-election last May, also withdrew Jammu and Kashmir's autonomy in August with the objective of tightening New Delhi's grip on the restive region, which is also claimed by full by Pakistan.
But as he looks to 2018 and a possible 2020 presidential bid, Mr. Cuomo must appeal to a restive Democratic electorate that is increasingly aware and unhappy that Republicans hold power in the State Senate during such polarized times.
This year, the N.R.A. has been mired in investigations by attorneys general in New York and Washington, D.C. and beset by leaks about its lavish spending practices, while also facing restive donors and inquiries over its ties to Russia.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine must pull back its troops in the country's restive east before there can be any talk of a fresh meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday.
In April, the separate gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Jammu and Kashmir inflamed religious tensions and sparked widespread protests, in a case that is threatening to further destabilize an already restive region.
When a prison riot shook the country in 2011, Mr. El Aissami responded by ceding more control to the restive gang leaders in an effort to end the rebellion, said Jeremy McDermott, director of InSight Crime, a research organization.
The firebrand leader launched more verbal salvos on Monday about what he called atrocities under American colonial rule, calling for the pullout of U.S. special forces stationed in the restive south that he said were complicating counter-insurgency operations.
The restive Himalayan state that borders Pakistan and is home to Muslim separatists battling Indian rule, has the biggest population of Rohingya in the country with around 7,000 people scattered in various makeshift settlements, largely in the Jammu region.
It remains to be seen whether this will be enough to satisfy the chancellor's restive Bavarian sister party and coalition partner, the Christian Social Union, which has threatened unilaterally to turn migrants away from Germany's southern border, threatening a coalition crisis.
Two diplomats said, however, that Osinbajo has now been authorized by Buhari to hold talks with leaders in the restive Niger Delta region to quell unrest that has choked crude production, in a sign some newfound momentum may be retained.
"Four unmanned drones fired six missiles in Monday's attack, and four more were dropped in two strikes on Tuesday," Baseer Khan Wazir, the top administrative official in the Kurram Agency, part of Pakistan's restive Federally Administered Tribal Areasm, told Reuters.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has called on Turkey to support its fight against militants operating in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, following criticism from Turkey about rights in a part of China heavily populated by a Turkic, mostly Muslim people.
Duterte said the presence of foreign fighters in street battles that have raged since Tuesday in Marawi City was proof that Islamic State had gained a foothold on the restive island of Mindanao, but there was still a chance for peace.
His government did move gently on such touchstone Hindutva issues as the building of a Ram temple atop a demolished mosque in Ayodhya, and demands to stamp Indian rule more firmly onto the restive, Muslim-majority state of Jammu & Kashmir.
Restive Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of Central Asia, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, is a key part of what Beijing officially refers to as its "one belt, one road" strategy to develop trade and transport links across Asia and beyond.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Security forces used tear gas against stone-throwing local residents in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Friday, after a third straight week of protests in the restive Soura district despite the imposition of tight restrictions.
Those executed include 11 men convicted of spying for Iran, and at least 14 others who were convicted of violent offenses related to participation in anti-government demonstrations in the country's restive Eastern Province between 2011 and 2012, according to Amnesty.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The assembly of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has approved a bill to merge the tribal region along the Afghan border with its territory, paving the way to granting equal rights to about 5 million people in the restive area.
HONG KONG, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Hong Kong protesters readied to take to the streets again on Sunday, defying a police ban on marches in the Chinese-controlled territory and continuing a restive weekend of demonstrations which saw police fire teargas overnight.
Some senior Catholic clergy and Vatican officials have been urging groups of restive Hong Kong brethren in recent weeks to back a deal many fear will betray the so-called "underground" mainland Catholics that they have been supporting for years.
Members of an oil prospecting team were kidnapped in the northeast's restive Lake Chad Basin region on Tuesday, prompting a rescue bid that left at least 37 dead including members of the team, rescuers from the military and vigilantes, officials say.
Eventually NLD leaders agreed at the early January meeting to offer the posts of deputy parliament speakers to T Khun Myat from the USDP and Aye Thar Aung from Arakan National Party (ANP), an ethnic party from Myanmar's restive Rakhine State.
It's unclear if Morrison can provide that boost, though Brown added that the prime minister will at least have a less restive party to lead, as right-wing media and harder-line conservatives will likely fall in line for now.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's army has reached a breakthrough pact with a Muslim separatist group to create a safety zone in restive southern provinces, the lead negotiator said on Wednesday, but analysts queried if it could succeed without support from other groups.
Dre's scalding reproof — "The system is rigged" — has long been a refrain of African-­Americans; this campaign season, it's also the mantra of Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump, yin-and-yang candidates with restive and largely white voting bases.
BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - China is mounting an increasingly sophisticated counterattack to criticism of its policies in the restive, heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, courting foreign media and running opinion pieces abroad as it seeks to spin a more positive message.
That followed New Delhi's move in August to strip Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir of its special status as a state in what Modi's government said was a bid to integrate the restive region with the rest of predominantly-Hindu India.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Massively stepped-up security in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang has helped prevent "great tragedy", a state-run newspaper said on Monday, in the country's first response to a critical United Nations report on the situation there.
To keep it going, NOC chief Sanalla has to tour the country regularly, placating restive armed factions and local groups while at the same time tussling with the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli over budget and control over the oil sector.
The former Florida governor, who was the prohibitive favorite when the race began, never got traction with a restive Republican electorate that was in no mood to back the sober-minded scion of a family that has already had two presidents.
In short order, this and his agrarian subject matter combined with a national mood of restive nostalgia to make Wood a paladin—routinely yoked with the Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and the Kansan John Steuart Curry—of anti-modernist regionalism.
Convinced that a restive electorate was crying out for nonpartisan, technocratic government, he instructed his closest aides to set up the machinery for a long-shot billion-dollar campaign that would have subjected his image to a scorching political test.
SHOPIAN, India (Reuters) - Three Indian soldiers and a woman were killed when militants ambushed a patrol in South Kashmir early on Thursday, part of an upsurge of violence that has hit the restive northern region as it emerges from winter.
Demirtas, who faces some 60 dossiers for things he has said, told reporters at a briefing the AKP was using the issue to tap nationalist support during a time of clashes between security forces and Kurdish militants in Turkey's restive southeast.
NEW DELHI — By licking a dab of honey from her palm, one of India's most prominent activists ended a nearly 16-year hunger strike on Tuesday as she pledged to run for political office in her restive home state of Manipur.
The main separatist parties of Catalonia have reached a preliminary agreement to re-elect Carles Puigdemont as leader of the restive Spanish region, even as he remains in self-imposed exile in Belgium, the Catalan news media reported on Wednesday.
MADRID — The Catalan Parliament postponed a vote on Tuesday to re-elect Carles Puigdemont, the leader of the movement to break away from Spain, as president of the restive region, extending a standoff with Madrid that could force new elections.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Four soldiers were killed and another four were wounded by a roadside bomb blast in a tribal area of northwestern Pakistan on Friday, in the latest attack in recent weeks in the restive North Waziristan region, officials said.
Restive House Democrats pressed Ms. Pelosi to open a formal inquiry aimed at removing the president from office for high crimes and misdemeanors while both sides sought to gain the upper hand in the escalating conflicts over testimony and documents.
A filmmaker less restive than McKay, having cast actors as gifted as Bale and Adams, might have done his best impersonation of, say, Steven Spielberg directing "Lincoln" — filling his movie with so much solemn soliloquizing and rousing Oval Office debate.
And Mr. al-Bashir is presently wanted on charges of genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Court, which accuses him of playing an "essential role" in the atrocities that occurred in Darfur, a restive region in western Sudan.
Manila brokered a deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front four years ago, but Congress has yet to pass the legislation that would give Muslims an autonomous region in the restive southern part of the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country.
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the taciturn Republican leader, watched stoically from across the Capitol two years ago as Speaker John A. Boehner resigned rather than contend with mounting troubles, restive conservatives and a band of renegade Republicans looking to oust him.
MADRID — Catalan activists on Monday marked the first anniversary of their disputed independence referendum by blocking train tracks and roads across Spain's restive northeastern region and trying to break into the Catalan Parliament, underlining how charged the conflict over separatism remains.
An ethnic Chinese living in Malaysia during politically restive times in 1969, he walked into the local American library one day and, thumbing through a directory of American colleges, saw the name Antioch, applied to the engineering school, and was accepted.
TAGAYTAY CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Hundreds of people who have fled their homes near a restive volcano on the Philippines' main island Luzon attended a Catholic mass at a temporary shelter on Sunday, praying for safety amid fears of a violent eruption.
In a short statement on its website, the state prosecutor said it had begun proceedings against former Sinopec Group president Wang Tianpu, former China Southern Airlines general manager Si Xianmin, and Le Dake, once a senior security official in restive Tibet.
Generously funded by the Saudi royals to placate their restive clerical establishment, the campaign to spread Wahhabism extended to Europe, Africa and Australia, with a large outpost in the Washington suburbs and the gleaming King Fahad Mosque in Culver City.
The situation has raised concerns that the under-funded regional G5 force, comprising troops from Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Burkina Faso, is unable to stop unrest spreading from West Africa's restive hinterland to coastal countries including Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Today, Xinjiang's restive nature has become a key challenge for the CCP, which has harnessed its deradicalization programs as instruments of pacification in a larger effort to remake Xinjiang in its own image for commercial purposes as well as ideological ones.
The 31-year-old history student further angered nationalists in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with what they said was a seditious call for the restive northeastern region of Assam to be "cut" from the rest of the country.
Nancy Pelosi gets this, and it's possible that some of the House Democrats who keep muttering about impeachment get it, too — and are either fulfilling what they see as their constitutional obligation or trying to mollify a restive Democratic base.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Police in Indonesia's restive Papua region pledged on Friday to hold an investigation after a local leader said the bodies of five villagers had been found with bullet wounds in an area where there has been a military crackdown.
MANILA (Reuters) - A restive volcano in the Philippines has a high risk of eruption as it is "recharging" with fresh magma and rising emissions of toxic gas, a top scientist said on Monday, while authorities ordered commercial establishments to stay shut.
The controversy has exacerbated social tensions between Hong Kong and China, fuelling a fledgling independence movement among pockets of the city's increasingly restive youth including those who took part in the 79-day "Occupy Central" democracy street protests in late 2014.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful car bomb near a Shiite place of worship in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 22 people and wounded at least 90 others on Friday, breaking a brief lull in militant violence in the restive region, officials said.
Calling the group of National Police officers from Manila, the capital, "rotten to the core," Mr. Duterte said he was ordering them to Basilan, an island in the country's restive south and home to the Islamic terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf.
India's policing culture has long been brutal, biased, anti-minority and almost colonial in character, a holdover from the days of British rule when the police had no illusions of serving the public but were used to suppress a restive population.
Cooking is as much a trade as an art: A chef must, mundanely, negotiate with vendors, run inventory, train staff, maintain safety protocols in the middle of the most helter-skelter dinner service and occasionally compromise dishes to placate restive customers.
GENEVA (Reuters) - China rejected on Monday allegations raised by a U.N. panel that 1 million Uighurs may be held in internment camps in the restive Xinjiang region, but said that some people underwent re-education after being deceived by extremists.
Yangon is not the capital.) By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator said on Tuesday.
First investigation into police brutality It's the first time the government has announced an investigation into police brutality against the Rohingya ethnic minority in the restive Rakhine State since the area was put under lockdown following an attack on border guards in October.
Sway with the GOP The way the confrontation ended left an impression that Trump, basking in the political capital that new presidents enjoy, may have as much sway with the restive Republican caucus as Ryan himself, who was re-elected speaker on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China denounced the United States on Thursday for passing a new law on restive Tibet, saying it was "resolutely opposed" to the U.S. legislation on what China considers an internal affair, and it risked causing "serious harm" to their relations.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United Nations have reached a "broad consensus" about counter-terror work, China's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday after a controversial visit by a senior U.N. official to the restive far western Chinese region of Xinjiang this week.
Amid turmoil in the Middle East, cross-border aggression in Eastern Europe, maritime disputes in Asia and restive governments in South America, the northern European nations remain an oasis of liberal cool for a president who has sometimes been described in similar terms.
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela/CARACAS (Reuters) - Mobs looted shops and fought security forces overnight in Venezuela's restive western region, where three soldiers were being charged on Thursday with the fatal shooting of a man who was buying diapers for his baby, witnesses said.
NARATHIWAT, Thailand (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen shot dead two Buddhist monks and injured two others in an attack at a temple in Thailand's mainly Muslim south, the first such killing of a Buddhist monk in the restive region in more than three years.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India further eased movement restrictions in Kashmir's main city Srinagar on Tuesday, even as large swathes of the historically-restive old quarter remained locked down to curb protests over New Delhi's move to strip the region of its autonomy.
But they also concede that given the electorate's restive mood, and the high negative ratings of both Trump and Clinton, that the possibility of a strong performance by the Libertarian ticket is one of many wild cards that can't be ruled out.
Timothee Chalamet stars as Elio, a restive and precocious 17-year-old who quickly becomes fascinated by his family's summer houseguest, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a confident American academic whose presence in Elio's life will have a profound impact on both young men.
China says it faces a serious threat from groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which operates in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese security forces have staged another mass anti-terror rally in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, parading hundreds of armed men through the streets of the regional capital Urumqi in a show of force after an uptick in violence.
Captured by the Islamic State: January 2014 Recaptured by Iraqi military: June 2016 Falluja, a restive Sunni-dominated city less than 40 miles from Baghdad, was the first to fall to the Islamic State and has been an important incubator for Sunni extremism.
Or that, in 2013, some analysts mistakenly described the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing as hailing from the Czech Republic — confusing it with Chechnya, a restive region of Russia nearly 2,000 miles away, and alarming Czech diplomats who issued a clarification.
ABUJA/ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he ordered a heightened military presence in the restive Niger Delta region to deal with a resurgence of attacks on oil and gas facilities, a day after yet another pipeline explosion.
They help write the story of this solitary man, this restive anthropologist, who, after leaving his tribe and losing his identity, has a chance to make himself whole with a girl whose love is, at last, too great for him to bear.
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India's ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, a senior leader said, a proposal that would almost certainly heighten tensions in the restive region.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged community leaders from the Niger Delta to pacify people in the restive southern region, which has been hit by a series of attacks on oil and gas facilities in the last few months.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines vowed to destroy those behind twin bombings that killed 20 people during a Sunday church service in the country's restive south, six days after a referendum on autonomy for the mainly Muslim region returned an overwhelming "yes" vote.
PAHALA, Hawaii (Reuters) - The restive Kilauea Volcano belched clouds of ash into the skies over Hawaii's Big Island twice more on Wednesday as civil defense authorities reported that pressurized geothermal wells at a nearby power plant had been spared from approaching lava.
The election results came as a blow to Mr. Abadi, despite popularity in some quarters of Iraq for his government's victory over the Islamic State and its success in stopping an independence bid by the country's restive Kurdish population in the north.
The rate of protest has accelerated sharply of late, as various factors have converged: a slowing global economy, dizzying gaps between rich and poor and a youth bulge that in many countries has produced a restive new generation fizzing with frustrated ambition.
Myanmar said in June that it would refuse to grant visas to three United Nations-backed experts who planned to conduct a human rights fact-finding mission to determine the circumstances of violence against civilians in Rakhine State and other restive areas.
A luminary figure in post-bop, he emerged in the 1960s and '70s playing music that leapt from the core of the jazz tradition — with titles like "Black Saint" and "Knowledge of Self" — and bespoke a mind-set of restive, contemporary vision.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A rash of killings by separatist militants targeting outsiders in India's Kashmir has persuaded growing numbers of migrant workers to stay away, rather than risk working in road gangs, building sites, hotels and apple orchards in the restive region.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India will formally split up disputed Jammu and Kashmir state into two federal territories on Thursday, aiming to tighten its grip on the restive region that has been in the grip of a harsh security clampdown for nearly three months.
ARENYS DE MUNT, Spain — As Spain's government tries almost everything it can to stop an independence referendum Sunday in the restive northeastern region of Catalonia, the standoff is escalating into a constitutional crisis emblematic of the larger forces tearing at European unity.
Mr. al-Bashir, who was ousted in a popular uprising last year, has been wanted by the international court since 2009 over atrocities in the restive western region of Darfur, where 300,000 people were killed and about 2.7 million displaced, beginning in 2003.
NEW DELHI — The government in India's Jammu and Kashmir State ordered internet service providers in the restive Kashmir valley to block social networking services there on Wednesday, an unusually harsh measure to counteract escalating waves of protests and violence in the region.
The operation in Indonesia involved a network of over 100 fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram posting content in English and Indonesian either in support or criticizing the West Papua independence movement, which is active in the country's restive easternmost region of Papua.
Sunday's killings took place in the restive southwestern province of Narino, where criminal gangs, the smaller ELN rebel group and FARC dissidents who refused to demobilize are competing to control valuable territory for the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine.
Hu, who spent a large part of his career working in restive Tibet, had been considered a candidate for the Standing Committee, the seven-man party body that is China's elite ruling body headed by Xi, but failed to make it on.
Still, Mr. Kelly is facing a restive staff that includes some aides who have grown increasingly upset with his handling of the Porter situation, including a constantly shifting set of explanations and timelines that have raised further questions about the White House's credibility.
The agency, citing the recently formed Presidency of State Security, identified the man as Abdullah bin Mirza Ali al-Qallaf and said he was killed during a security operation on Monday night at a farm between the restive Shi'ite Muslim communities of Awamiya and Qudaih.
The slights felt by Obama reflect a different international situation in which the United States has remained relatively the same, but in which other powers have grown more restive and assertive, less accepting of US leadership and less willing to grant it automatic authority.
Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that he would run again for the top job, despite reports in recent days that he may opt out or that more radical members of his restive caucus could try to oust him, after deeming him insufficiently supportive of Trump.
A REFRIGERATED PLANE flying round-the-clock sallies to bring medicine to a besieged population, emergency waste centres established to deal with overflowing rubbish and martial law imposed on a restive population as the queen is whisked from the capital by helicopter to escape rioters.
Sterling fell 0.2 percent to $1.2959, near 2-1/2 week lows of $1.0.27 touched on Tuesday, ahead of Prime Minister Theresa May's meeting with her party's so-called "1922 Committee" of backbenchers as she tries to calm lawmakers restive over her Brexit plans.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has completed the last leg of a 13,000-km (8,080 mile) fiber-optic network that will bring high-speed internet to some of its poorest regions in the country's east, including the restive region of Papua, the government said on Monday.
As well as economic fragility, some projects in Asia also carry significant security risks, particularly the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, where more than 13,000 Pakistani troops have already been deployed to protect the project, which runs through the South Asian country's restive tribal regions.
The prime minister had told parliament on Monday that the Brexit deal with Brussels was 95 percent complete, and she urged restive lawmakers to back her in the final stages of Britain's exit from the EU, saying talks were in their most difficult phase.
Baseer Khan Wazir, the most senior administrator in Kurram Agency that is part of Pakistan's restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas, said four unmanned drones fired six missiles on a Taliban hideout close to the border on Monday but could not confirm on which side.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Uighur Communist Party official in China's far-western Xinjiang has urged Uighur cadres to reveal "two-faced people" and "clean them out", the latest in a string of senior figures to single out their own ethnic group in the restive region.
The LME earnings crunch came as former LME chief executive Martin Abbott has raised the concept of a rival platform to the LME after being approached by restive brokers, unhappy with fee increases and an LME move to boost volumes by attracting more speculators.
VOLCANO, Hawaii, May 23 (Reuters) - The restive Kilauea Volcano belched clouds of ash into the skies over Hawaii's Big Island twice more on Wednesday as civil defense authorities reported that pressurized geothermal wells at a nearby power plant had been secured from approaching lava.
During an apparently difficult call to discuss import tariffs with Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, Trump reached into his historical locker as he searched for just the right metaphor to express his national security concerns about those notoriously restive neighbors to the north.
YANGON (Reuters) - Some 30 people died in clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar security forces in a restive area along the border with China on Monday, the government said, dealing a blow to leader Aung San Suu Kyi's goal of reaching peace with minorities.
Beto O'Rourke (D), is leading a group of restive conservatives who want to vote on a budget resolution that would set up a special process — known as reconciliation — to allow the GOP to pass ambitious legislation, such as an ObamaCare repeal, with a simple majority.
Just weeks ago, Pelosi had faced the toughest challenge to her leadership career from disgruntled Democrats fed up with her long reign, leading to questions of how effectively Pelosi would manage her diverse and restive caucus heading into the high-stakes 22019 presidential cycle.
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - As China slims down its bloated steel sector, the western region of Xinjiang is feeling the pain even more than the industry's heartland to the east, threatening efforts to develop a restive area that is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people.
Capuano is the second long-serving white, male Democrat to fall in a primary this summer to a minority, female challenger — a reflection of shifting demographics in certain blue districts, combined with an acute hunger for generational change and progressive ideas within the restive party.
GENEVA (Reuters) - France and Germany have called on China to close "re-education camps" in its restive far western region of Xinjiang where up to one million Uighurs and other Muslims are thought to be held for political indoctrination as pressure grows for UN action.
Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have punished a local official for declining to smoke in front of Muslim elders, seeing that as a sign he was insufficiently committed to the region's fight against religious extremism, according to a government report and state media Tuesday.
Officials on the Politburo include not only the seven-man Standing Committee which has ultimate say over China's government, but also other senior people like the country's top diplomat Yang Jiechi, and Chen Quanquo, the party boss of the restive far western region of Xinjiang.
As the political crisis has dragged on Congo has experienced a spike in violence by armed groups, particularly in the restive east, which many fear could plunge the country back into the kind of conflict in which millions died at the turn of the century.
Conflict broke out after the KRG held a referendum on independence at the end of September, angering neighbouring states including Turkey and Iran, with their own restive Kurdish minorities, and drawing rebukes from the Iraqi Kurds' key Western supporters, the United States and European Union.
National police officers in riot gear, sent by the central government in Madrid from other parts of Spain, used rubber bullets and truncheons in some places as they fanned out across Catalonia, the restive northeastern region, to shut down polling stations and seize ballot boxes.
BARCELONA — The escalating confrontation over Catalonia's independence drive took its most serious turn on Saturday as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain announced he would remove the leadership of the restive region and initiate a process of direct rule by the central government in Madrid.
Today, bagoong and other Filipino foods are finally entering the American mainstream, more than a century after the United States Navy sailed into Manila Bay, sank the Spanish Armada and took control of the archipelago, a restive colony of around 7,100 islands and 180 languages.
In the race for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, which concludes with a vote in Atlanta on Saturday, the restive mood of liberal activists has buoyed a pair of insurgents, Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has completed the last leg of a 13,000-km (8,080 mile) fiber-optic network that will bring high-speed internet to some of its poorest regions in the country's east, including the restive region of Papua, the government said on Monday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Violent protests by hundreds of people on Monday touched off by rumors that a teacher insulted an indigenous student in the restive Indonesian province of Papua have left at least 20 civilians dead, including three who were shot by the police, officials said.
That followed a government decision in August to strip Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state of its special status and split it into two federally administered regions in what the government said was a bid to integrate the restive region with the rest of India.
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a Chevron oil pipeline in Nigeria's restive Delta region on Friday, a security source said, the second blast at a facility of the U.S. oil major within a week, feeding concern over a revived militant campaign in the area.
Beijing (CNN)Thousands of Uyghur Muslims are currently being detained in cramped conditions at so-called political education camps in China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang -- and the trend shows no sign of abating, exiled Uyghur activists and human rights advocacy groups say.
"It's My Turn," Diana Ross sang in 1980 for a movie of the same title (one of many then about restive adults seeking new lives after the dissolution of a partnership): lifting arms encased in white silky sleeves like an angel poised to take wing.
Hong Kong's restive youth prepare for long struggle with BeijingWith China's preferred candidate selected as Hong Kong's next chief executive, another blow to the morale of the city's democracy activists, their young leaders are taking a page from Beijing's playbook and preparing for a long battle.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Armed rebels killed at least one soldier during an attack on a house owned by Congo President Joseph Kabila in the restive east where a number of conflicts have flared in recent months, rebel and Congo military sources said on Thursday.
An Islamic State affiliate claimed a suicide bombing at a Cairo church in December that killed around 30 people, mostly women, as well as a string of killings in the restive northern Sinai that caused hundreds of Christians to flee to safer areas of the country.
The suspects are accused of belonging to 22 cells and carrying out 19 attacks in total, including the assassination of three judges who were overseeing a parliamentary election in restive northern Sinai, which borders Gaza, Israel and the Suez Canal, judicial sources and state media said.
American diplomats say Turkey has erected a version of China's Great Firewall around the consulate under the terms of a previously secret bilateral security pact with China, ostensibly intended to curb Islamist militancy among Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking minority from China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang.
Fresh back from trips to Syria, Libya, and other restive countries in the Middle East, the final straw for him, he said in an interview, was a lengthy conversation in 2014 with bearded men outside his home one night who tried converting him to strict Islam.
If radical Islamism was indeed his motive, he will be distinct from two previous waves of attackers - those from Russia's restive North Caucasus region who fought successive rebellions against Moscow; and a later group who went to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State group.
Both the early English settlers and the American Revolutionaries lived in profoundly class-ridden societies, with downtrodden (and sometimes cruelly disciplined) servants and restive debtors and runaways, yet official American history identifies with the rulers of these hierarchical societies as if they were middle-class democrats.
Labour, the main opposition party, opposes Brexit (though its throwback socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, seems lukewarm on the subject.) Restive Scotland is strongly pro-Europe, and Britain's departure would likely strengthen separatism there and possibly in other parts of the "Celtic fringe," namely Wales and Northern Ireland.
UNITED NATIONS — Amnesty International said on Thursday that Sudanese government forces had laid waste to dozens of villages in the restive region of Darfur, bombing them from the air, burning homes, looting livestock and raping women — while preventing United Nations peacekeepers from going there to protect civilians.
A big selling point of the technology, according to one policeman from the restive far western region of Xinjiang who was eyeing a Hisign scanner, was its claimed ability to get data from Apple Inc's iOS operating system, used in products like the widely popular iPhone.
New Delhi (CNN)The brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl, in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, has inflamed religious tensions and sparked widespread protests, in a case that is threatening to further destabilize an already restive region.
The situation has raised concerns that the perennially under-funded regional G5 force, comprising troops from Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Burkina Faso, is unable to stop unrest fanning out from West Africa's restive hinterland to coastal countries including regional economic powerhouses Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Where once the Democrat-dominated New York City Council was a reliable ally of the Democratic mayor, the two branches have increasingly been split as the Council speaker, Corey Johnson, leads an emboldened and restive body itching to take on Mr. de Blasio and his administration.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Taliban attack on police checkpoints that killed 11 officers in Helmand Province and a suicide bombing of an NATO convoy that left a civilian dead here in Kandahar capped a bloody day of violence in the restive south of Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
The founders of Tabàrnia intend for it to send a message to Catalonia's separatist politicians: That not everyone in Spain's restive northeastern region shares the same breakup hopes, and that one declaration of independence could set off a cascading series of separations, to the point of absurdity.
Add it up, and the stage was set for a meek and unmemorable end of the state's annual legislative session, as state lawmakers finished their required time in the Capitol and headed for the hustings, where a restive and riled up electorate likely waits in November.
He takes a sternly patriotic line on such subjects as Tibet or the restive, mostly-Muslim region of Xinjiang, where he praises Communist officials for bringing "much stability", and says that he has seen with his own eyes how living standards have been raised for residents.
And Democrats, facing a restive base hungry for victory after disappointing losses in Montana and Kansas, are under pressure to show they can notch something more than a moral victory in the sort of affluent seat they will need in order to take back the House majority.
Yet in many of the restive countries, experts discern a pattern: a louder-than-usual howl against elites in countries where democracy is a source of disappointment, corruption is seen as brazen, and a tiny political class lives large while the younger generation struggles to get by.
Demonstrations were also held in other cities in Pakistan, including Pashteen's home district of Tank, located close to Pakistan's restive tribal areas, the focal point of a decade-long insurgency by Islamist militants and anti-terrorism operations by the Pakistani military, which has displaced millions of people.
The restive northwestern region has been the target of mounting extremism, but radical Islamism is rife across much of the country of 208 million, with practically no government control in many tribal areas and extremist groups that enjoy support from parts of the military and security forces.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government will formally break up Jammu and Kashmir state into two federal territories on Thursday, as part of a sweeping move to tighten its grip over the restive region that is at the heart of more than 70 years of hostility with Pakistan.
The Tahrir Generation of 2011, she writes, may already be over the hill, though a new crop of restive Egyptians are reaching a boiling point, and they may not submit in the same way their grandparents did when the first military strongman took power in 1952.
Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the restive semi-autonomous city, people familiar with the matter said.
Like suspected mine attacks on tanker shipping in the Gulf earlier in the year, the strike – which initially sent energy prices spiking - showed just how little those who ordered it care for the norms of international engagement, even by the standards of the restive Middle East.
Western nations have been providing military training and equipment to the Sisi government to aid in its fight against Islamic militants in the restive Sinai peninsula, in what many rights groups describe as prioritizing security while turning a blind eye to the country's poor human rights record.
Even as the restive board was evaluating Mr. Miller's performance in late August, he was trumpeting the synergy he envisioned for its costliest animated film ever, "The Black Cauldron," marketing it as a theatrical release, a videocassette, a featured Disney Channel movie and a theme-park ride.

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