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AGITATIONS OF PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES In Chile : On June 11 (2015), students throughout the country had protested demanding reforms of education, stopping privatised education, removing the restraints on granting central funds to education, on the very day of formally launching the soccer tournament by the president of Chile. They have protested in Santiago at Alameda Avenue, by destroying barricades and stopping traffic, demanding the ending of privatisation in education. In Japan : On June 14, around 25,000 protesters have protested by surrounding the building of the P.M. of Japan opposing the intended new security laws that will give extrodinary war powers to the government; which may lead to new armed conflicts with other countries. In Armenia : Protesting against the rise in the electricity charges the people throughout the country have protested continuously for a week in the 3rd week of June, due to which the government has to unable to withstand the fury of the people, and announced that it is stopping the electricity charges that have been enhanced. In London : Tens of thousands of people joined in a protest march-antiausterity march-through central London on June 20, exhibiting placards with slogans such as “END AUSTERITY NOW” AND “NOCUTS” and “HELTH NOT WEALTH”. In Rome : Activists on June 28th urging the adoption of an ambitious legally-binding global agreement December 2015 changes at the forthcoming U.N. conference in Paris displayed banner in St Peter’s square at the Vatican prior to Pope Francis’ Sunday Angular Player. The banners read slogans like “OUR WORLD IS A GRAVE- SOCIAL DEBT TO POOR” etc. In Philippines : On July 3, protesters marched towards US embassy in Manila, ahead of a US-Philippines Friendship day celebrations set for July 4, denouncing the lop sided nature of the friendship which benefits only the US. They carried banners with slogans like “STOP the RAPE of our MOTHER-LAND!” In Japan : Opposing the disputed security bill on July 15, again around 20,000 protesters rallied in TOKYO, protesting against the anti-constitutional bill. In Israel : Condemning the political violence, thousands of Israels conducted protest demonstrations on the night of July 31, in Jerusalem, Tel-AVIV and HAFIA towns of Israel. They demanded to end violence, Hatred, false and falsified comments on their land, which are against Jewish traditions. In Germany : On Aug 15, several hundreds of environmental activists stormed a lignite mine in Western Germany, at the open-pit coal mine near Garzweiler, protesting against use of coal for electricity production. They displayed a banner reading “we do not have to stop protests – Leave the coal underground”. In Britain: Protesting the hike in Railway fares, on August 18, the railway unions conducted protest demonstrations, against abnormal hike of railway fares to 25% and demanding to nationalise railways. In USA : Condemning and protesting against the increasing of killings and violence against AfroAmericans, on Aug 18, hundreds of protesters conducted a protest march of 25 kms from Baltimore to Washington. They also claimed that number of committing suicides by 50% is in Baltimore city itself and those 238 suicides were committed in 8 month of 2015, in Baltimore. In France : On Aug 19, in a protest in Saint Lo, France farmers have blockaded roads and stopped hundreds of trucks bringing in foreign meat, vegetables and dairy produce in renewed protesting against falling prices and cheap imports. In Lebanon : On Aug 24, thousands of protesters demanded the government’s resignation over garbage piling up on the streets of Beirut, after the capital’s main land fill was closed a month ago. In West Sahara : Protesting the abuse of human rights and incarcerating those who protested against abuse of human rights, and the indirect rule of Morocco from 1975, on Aug 25, came on to the streets with protest demonstrations in West Sahara. In Malay