Media group: Romania must probe journalist attacks

Thursday, January 19, 2012

BUCHAREST, Romania -- A media organization has called on Romanian authorities to identify and prosecute protesters and policemen who reportedly attacked nine journalists during violent anti-government demonstrations.

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization said Wednesday that reporters were assaulted while covering days-long protests against austerity measures that degenerated into violence in Bucharest on Sunday and Monday.

SEEMO says the exact number of attacked journalists is not known. However, it mentions nine cases of journalists and other media employees who were either hit by stones and Molotov cocktails hurled by protesters or allegedly detained or beaten by riot police.

At least 59 people were injured during the disturbances against harsh austerity measures and the way the country is run.

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Series of suicide attacks strike western Iraq

Monday, January 16, 2012

RAMADI, Iraq –  A series of car and suicide attacks struck the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday as gunmen stormed a police building.

Four car bombs were detonated at a mosque and police building in the city, 60 miles west of Baghdad, and two suicide bombers struck inside the police building.

Gunmen then stormed the police facility, triggering clashes, according to two police officers.

The first two car bombs exploded at around 11:30am local time near the Dawlah Kabir Mosque in central Ramadi, followed by a third car bomb also in the city center.

A short while later, a fourth car bomb went off near a police building in Ramadi, followed quickly thereafter by two suicide bombers blowing themselves up inside the building.

Armed insurgents then stormed the building and clashes were ongoing as of 1:00pm local time.

The number of casualties was not immediately clear.

The attacks come a day after a suicide bomber killed 53 people in an apparent sectarian attack in southern Iraq. The attack -- on the outskirts of the port city of Basra -- left another 137 people wounded.

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Series of suicide attacks strike western Iraq

A series of car and suicide attacks struck the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday as gunmen stormed a police building.

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Iraqi police: 15 killed in attacks on stations

At least 15 people were killed and 26 others wounded in attacks targeting police stations in Iraq Sunday, authorities said.

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