With encampments largely gone, the challenge is to keep the Occupy cause alive through methods like strikes and protests, which risk alienating people rather than galvanizing them.

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Occupy Movement Regroups, Laying Plans for the Next Phase

The assassination of a government stalwart was another step away from the nonviolent roots of the antigovernment protests.

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Syrian General Killed by Gunmen in Damascus

Romania’s intelligence service chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu is nominated as prime minister after Emil Bloc resigns amid widespread austerity protests.

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Romania spy chief ‘to be new PM’

Romania’s intelligence service chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu is nominated as prime minister after Emil Bloc resigns amid widespread austerity protests.

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Romania spy chief ‘to be new PM’

DARAA, Syria — Nearly 11 months ago, protests against local authorities began in this small southern town and spread to become an uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad that engulfed Syria. Read full article > >

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In birthplace of Syria’s uprising, a fragile military control

DARAA, Syria — Nearly 11 months ago, protests against local authorities began in this small southern town and spread to become an uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad that engulfed Syria. Read full article > >

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In birthplace of Syria’s uprising, a fragile military control

Saying NGOs funded protests against regime.

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Egypt to Prosecute Americans

Fresh protests take place at the Syrian embassy in London over President Assad’s regime.

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Fresh protests at Syrian embassy

Ambassador Michael A. McFaul has arrived as the Kremlin tries to portray antigovernment protests as being driven by the United States, but he has no intention of keeping a low profile.

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In Russia, New U.S. Envoy, McFaul, Ruffles Feathers

The main sponsor of a House bill targeting online piracy announced Friday that he will postpone further action on the measure that has triggered fierce protests, blackouts from Internet sites and some rethinking among lawmakers. Read full article > >

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SOPA action delayed in House until ‘wider consensus’

Let’s say the protests over SOPA and PIPA succeed, and Congress nixes its online-piracy bills. That’s not a foregone conclusion yet, though more and more senators have been backing off . What then? Should Congress create a better anti-piracy bill? Or just drop the subject altogether? Read full article > >

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Do we need a better Internet piracy bill — or no bill at all?

President Goodluck Jonathan said the price will drop to about $2.75 a gallon after a week of strikes, protests and fragile economic calculus for most Nigerians.

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Nigerian President Rolls Back Price of Gasoline

A series of episodes involving the ultra-Orthodox community, including segregation of women and protests comparing officials to Nazis, has set off a debate about its position.

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Israel Faces Crisis Over Role of Ultra-Orthodox in Society

A classroom of Charlottesville third-graders wrote songs in a music workshop about the holidays, laughter, daffodils, best friends — and the divisive Occupy protests that have spread across the country. Read full article > >

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Occupy third grade? A song that uses protest rhetoric creates furor in Virginia.

MOSCOW — Ignoring the political upheaval that has shaken Russia over the past month, Vladimir Putin’s presidential campaign unveiled a hefty new Web site Thursday that promises a fistful of important reforms but sidesteps the complaints that have drawn tens of thousands of protesters to the streets. Read full article > >

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Putin Web launch ignores Russian protests