1.   Also Saturday, several hundred demonstrators rallied in the center of Riga to protest rising prices.

2.   Earlier this week, hundreds of cab drivers blocked the avenue in front of the presidential palace, blaring their horns to protest rising crime.

3.   Hundreds of angry Israelis in the southern town of Ofakim blocked traffic, burned tires and clashed with police Tuesday to protest rising unemployment.

4.   Hundreds of shop workers marched in the streets of Point-a-Pitre Wednesday to protest rising violence in this French Caribbean territory.

5.   Riot police fired tear gas in downtown Harare on Monday to disperse demonstrators protesting rising prices.

6.   Students were the driving force behind riots Khartoum last year protesting rising cost of living.

7.   Women protesting rising costs beat empty pots and pans and chanted anti-government slogans Saturday at a rally of the main opposition Motherland Party.

8.   Other groups -- backed by the main opposition Awami League -- called a counter strike to protest rising fundamentalism.