41.   Farmer protests began last year, with peasants demanding higher prices and more government subsidies for their produce as well as an end to food imports.

42.   Fearing violence, many residents fled the capital Dhaka for their ancestral village homes before the protests began.

43.   For the first time since protests began, unions also called on dentists, psychiatrists and nurses to join the marchers to help swell numbers.

44.   Hours before the protests began, Shubeilat participated in a Muslim sermon in Maan.

45.   In Beijing, the protests began with well-organized ranks of student demonstrators and later turned into a rowdy mob that threw rocks and tried to set cars on fire.

46.   In Beijing, the protests began with well-organized ranks of student demonstrators and later turned into a rowdy mob who threw rocks and tried to set cars on fire.

47.   In North Germany, sit-down protests began on rail tracks near the radioactive waste dump where the shipment is headed.

48.   Inmates were still in charge of five Greek prisons Friday but prisoners at the facility where the countrywide protests began said they could end their rebellion over the weekend.

49.   It was the deadliest single attack since government protests began.

50.   Later, the protests began to register opposition to the government of Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who supports strengthening ties with other Muslim nations and encouraging Islamic traditions.