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Authorities raided the Chengdu, China office of popular US-based crowd-sourced taxi service Uber on May 6, about a week after its Guangzhou office was raided on accusations of operating without a license and conducting illegal business. Officials claimed that the crackdown was part of a comprehensive operation against unlicensed taxis.
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In an extraordinary sight only one day after police violently dispersed demonstrators in Macedonia with water cannons, smoke bombs and batons, a group of women out to protest formed a human shield around officers to protect them from provocateurs throwing glass bottles.
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Despite international appeals and domestic criticism, Indonesia carried out the execution of eight drug convicts last week. But it didn't end the debates about the death penalty law, the ‘war on drugs’, and the possibility that some of the convicts were innocent.
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Radio Campfire, one of the main media outlets in Cherán in western Mexico, was born only a few days after the indigenous community took up self-governance and self-defense in 2011 in the face of organized crime looking to exploit the area's resources.
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