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  • Some of the 161 passengers arriving last night at Gatwick Airport on a Foreign Office-chartered flight spoke of their relief at escaping the riot-hit city.

    Evacuated Britons tell of Cairo 'war zone' 2011

  • In findings released last week, the panel – which took evidence from riot-hit communities and victims, but did not speak to rioters – concluded there was no single cause for the riots, but urged police to improve the way stop and search is conducted.

    Rioters say anger with police fuelled summer unrest 2011

  • With uneasy calm established and last week's cops-and-robbers narrative at last being intruded on by reality, London, like other riot-hit English cities, can start wondering where in heaven's name it's heading and how to reverse the advance of urban hell.

    London's missing dimension – serenity | Dave Hill 2011

  • Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Looters outside the riot-hit Abu Zaabal prison in Cairo after a breakout by convicts during a January revolt.

    Egypt Amends View of Islamists Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

  • OSH, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south – many times her government's official estimate – as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest erupted.

    Kyrgyzstan Violence Claims Up To 2,000 Lives 2010

  • Will cuts undermine progress in riot-hit Birmingham?

    Surely a burnt-down school will get fixed? 2010

  • Several mosques in riot-hit Urumqi opened for Friday prayers, despite notices posted earlier saying they would be closed in the wake of violence between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese this week that left 156 dead.

    Open for Prayers 2009

  • An uneasy calm returned on Sunday to China's riot-hit Urumqi where 184 people died in ethnic violence a week ago, though the official tally of dead could rise, a regional official indicated.

    Police Kill 2 Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province 2009

  • The gags include pranks with pungent cheese, racist comments and a grim office block in a riot-hit Paris suburb where the boss likes to say 'zat's life'.

    Archive 2006-05-01 The Nag 2006

  • The WHO would supply surgical equipment and assist in monitoring the outbreak of contagious diseases in riot-hit Maseru,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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