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Bikes on the frontline of Syria's deadly crackdown

Russian anarchists fight capitalism with fire

Norway survivor: "I lay on the beach surrounded by bodies, playing dead"

Baathist official’s ferocious rampage caught on camera

Syrian youth ‘shot down’ while filming neighbourhood violence

Hama, a symbol of Syrian resistance, rises again

Crackdown in Cairo: ‘Police violence as bad’ as during popular uprising

Massive military operation struggles to tame rowdy prison

Belfast clashes reveal unresolved sectarian tensions

Karachi youth brutally executed by Pakistani soldiers

‘Blood fountains’, a potent symbol of Mexico’s drug war

Vivid paintings depict months of bloody civil conflict

'Snipers ordered to aim for the head'

Nigerian city torn by post-election religious violence

Abidjan after Gbagbo, a tale of two cities

Abidjan residents struggle to buy provisions as fighting rages on

Russia gets its first real-life superhero

Armed looters go on rampage in Abidjan

A French diplomatic vehicle comes under attack in Abidjan

Police stand by as two men are burned alive by mob

Gbagbo's 'Young Patriots' take the law into their own hands

Grandmother clobbers jewellery thieves with hand bag

Members of a Muslim group lynched by extremists as police look on

Caught on camera: Key moments in the Tunisian protests