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Oops! Israeli rubber bullets hit photographers (VIDEO)

Two photographers, including one working for The Associated Press, were struck by rubber-coated bullets fired at close range by an Israeli border policeman on Sunday. An Israeli police spokesman says it's unclear why the officer fired.

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Reporter mistakes earplugs for rubber bullets, tweets pic

A Huffington Post reporter learned the hard way that everything you tweet is under scrutiny after mistaking a couple of earplugs for rubber bullets Sunday morning. Reporter Ryan J. Reilly, who was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday night while covering protests, tweeted a photo of a four orange earplugs atop what appears to be asphalt. […]

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Video of Brisbane mall gunman taken down by hailstorm of rubber and real bullets (VIDEO)

Video was recently released of the Brisbane mall gunman who was shot by a volley of rubber and real bullets last year. On March 8, 2013, 35-year-old Lee Matthew Hillier brandished a gun at Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall, sending the area into lockdown. After a 90-minute standoff with police, Hillier was shot multiple times with […]

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Photo of the Day: I said… DISPERSE!

“Riot police fire rubber bullets at demonstrators during clashes near Guanabara Palace where Pope Francis met with President Dilma Rousseff in Rio de Janeiro on July 22, 2013.” Nothing says the party’s over like a face-full of rubber bullets. Except maybe that water cannon off to the left side of the shot. Ya. I’m pretty […]

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