SAO PAULO, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) - Five inmates were killed Saturday in a prison riot that followed an attempted breakout at a penitentiary in northeastern Brazil, prison director Roberto Goulart said.

He said an undetermined number of inmates trying to escape the facility in Alagoas turned their weapons on prison guards when they were discovered and ordered to stop.

The firefight triggered a prison riot by other inmates at the facility that lasted two hours and required the help of militarized police to put it down, Goulart said.

JERUSALEM, Oct 22, 2007 (AFP) - Violent clashes flared between prison guards and Palestinian inmates at a Israeli jail deep in the desert on Monday, leaving dozens of detainees and gaolers injured, officials said.

The Prisoners Club, the main group representing Palestinians held in Israel, said the clashes broke out at Ketziot prison in the southern Negev desert after guards started what it termed 'provocative' cell searches.

JERUSALEM, Oct 22, 2007 (AFP) - Clashes broke out between prison guards and Palestinian inmates at an Israeli jail on Monday, leaving 17 detainees and staff members injured, a Palestinian prisoners' association said.

The Prisoners Club, the main group representing Palestinians held in Israel, said clashes broke out at the Ketziot prison in the southern Negev desert after guards started what it termed 'provocative' cell searches.

Palestinian detainees responded by throwing things at the guards, who used means of riot dispersal to break up the protest, the group said.

RIYADH, Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) - Saudi security forces used tear gas to quell a riot at a rehabilitation centre for youths in the Muslim holy city of Medina, newspapers reported on Sunday.

Inmates aged 13 to 18 rioted on Saturday in protest at their exclusion from a royal pardon granted to a number of prisoners by King Abdullah to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that started on Thursday, Al-Watan and Al-Medina said.

TORONTO, Sept 9, 2007 (AFP) - In a nod to activists, the Toronto film festival premiered on Sunday 'Battle in Seattle,' director Stuart Townsend's first film about rioting outside the 1999 World Trade Organization talks in the United States.

'The mainstream media covered it in a way that people didn't really get the content of the whole protest movement, which got marginalized,' Townsend told reporters.

PATNA, India, Aug 12, 2007 (AFP) - A man died and 12 others were injured Sunday when police beat back a crowd of hungry flood victims at a relief centre in the Indian state of Bihar, officials said.

Police used batons to beat back some of the 2,000 flood victims who had gathered at the state-run centre in Saharsa district, said local administrator Niranjan Kumar Choudhry.

'They became angry when they were told that there was no more relief material left and police had to be called in to restore order when they began ransacking the place,' Choudhry said.

LUSAKA, July 25, 2007 (AFP) - One person was shot dead and several were injured when Zambian police used live bullets to quell a riot by protesters against police harassment of taxi drivers, police said Wednesday.

The riots on Tuesday evening were sparked when a taxi overturned -- causing a serious accident -- while being chased by police after it contravened traffic regulations, police spokesman Bonny Kapeso said.

'A stray bullet hit one person who died. Twelve others sustained serious injuries and are currently in hospital,' he said.