riot
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Protesters and riot police clashed in Tirana as thousands of demonstrators rallied for better university conditions and demanded Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Malakian remembers being taken away from the concert site and watching coverage of the riot from a nearby hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Vince . . . basically threatened to fire me if I ever brought it up again and read me the riot act,” Ventura explained on The Steve Austin Show.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is currently facing a wave of protests by students over poor conditions that has seen riot police deployed and more than 160 schools closed Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Thousands of trainees whizzed past, their mantles a riot of colors: more Levels Ones in white, Level Twos in bright orange, Level Threes in sapphire blue, and Level Fours in plum purple.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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His Red Special presidential campaign train in 1908 and his Socialist Party conventions were riots of red flags, pennants and bunting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Before the student riots kicked off, there was a one-day national strike by civil servants, firefighters and others to protest government-wage freezes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
His gaze shifts past snapshots he once documented of historical taut moments in Los Angeles like the 1966 Sunset Strip riots of West Hollywood or the 1970 Chicano Moratorium in Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
After the riots, Maria stayed inside her home for seven days, too frightened to leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Ever since the riots and protests last year, I’ve been inspired to do something. I can’t just sit around and let things happen anymore. We were hoping you’d feel the same way.”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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The rate of pupils missing school has spiked near to where people rioted for several nights in Ballymena, the education minister has said.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
Dunn said officers wanted acknowledgment for those members of law enforcement who were present at the insurrection, as well as accountability from those who rioted.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
In October 1962, federal marshals escorted Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, while white people rioted on the Oxford campus.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
Caught between the collapse of wages and the loss of land, peasants rioted across Europe.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
The streets rioted in all directions, twisting around in a confusing way.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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These were years of imperial crisis, political unrest and popular rioting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"Our officers have a role to facilitate and accommodate peaceful protest," he said, while cautioning against a repeat of widespread anti-immigrant rioting last June.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
It is not clear if they were involved in the football-related rioting.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
They would be elderly people rioting, but they would still riot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Lucky Strike was grinning, his long black dreadlocks tied back, but Nailer knew he was also telling people there wouldn’t be any rioting for food.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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