Police fired tear gas Sunday to clear blockades of the Pan-American highway by indigenous groups protesting changes to the mining law. One person was killed and 39 injured in the resulting clashes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. police officers cleared tents from an "Occupy" protest site in downtown Washington on Sunday, but demonstrators said even without the camp they would continue to fight for economic equality and other issues. About two dozen protesters in Freedom Plaza, just blocks from the White House, watched calmly as the National Park police and sanitation workers in hazmat suits ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of teargas. It was the fourth day of clashes outside the ministry, in which seven people have died. Protesters accuse the ministry of failing to prevent the deaths last week of 74 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police removed protesters as they confiscated bedding and most tents on Saturday from an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule for the public McPherson Square they had ignored for months. Dozens of mounted police and police on foot in riot gear earlier sealed off the square, which is administered by the National Park Service ...

Police swept through the Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, arresting eight people in a day-long raid that virtually shut down the tent colony a stone's throw from the White House.

U.S. Park Police in riot gear entered the Occupy DC camp in McPherson Square in downtown Washington early Saturday.

Six people were arrested after U.S. Park Police entered an Occupy DC camp in downtown Washington on Saturday.

Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules.

Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the U.S., with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules.

After a police officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man in the Bronx on Thursday, the man’s grandmother was held against her will for hours, a friend of the family said.