Pakistani protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Pakistani protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Members of the radical Islamic women's group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or daughters of the nation, participate in a protest opposing anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims? as white smoke of tear gas fired by police rises on the street in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Police have clamped a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city and chased away protesters opposing the film produced in the United States. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked cell phone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Indian policewomen detain members of the radical Islamic women's group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or daughters of the nation, during a protest opposing anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims? in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Police have clamped a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city and chased away protesters opposing the film produced in the United States. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked cell phone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Members of the radical Islamic women's group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or daughters of the nation, run for cover as Indian police fire teargas shells to disperse them during a protest opposing anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims? in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Police have clamped a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city and chased away protesters opposing the film produced in the United States. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked cell phone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Members of the radical Islamic women's group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or daughters of the nation, participate in a protest opposing an anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims,? in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Police have clamped a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city and chased away protesters opposing the anti-Islam film produced in the United States. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked cell phone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips. Placards read "we, the daughters of nation, will sacrifice our lives for Prophet Muhammed," center, "There is only one punishment for those who insult the Prophet: beheading," right, and a poetry praising the prophet, left. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
CAIRO (AP) ? Here's a look at protests and events across the world on Friday connected to an amateurish anti-Muslim film produced in the United States and vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a French satirical weekly.
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PAKISTAN
Tens of thousands protested against the film around the country after the government encouraged peaceful protests and declared a national holiday ? "Love for the Prophet Day." Demonstrations turned violent and three people were killed during protests, including a driver for a Pakistani television station, who died after police opened fire on rioters torching a cinema in the northwest city of Peshawar during a protest.
Clashes between police and thousands of stone-throwing protesters also occurred in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
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IRAN
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the West over the film. Speaking during a military parade in Tehran, he said: "in return for (allowing) the ugliest insults to the divine messenger, they ? the West ? raise the slogan of respect for freedom of speech." He said this explanation was "clearly a deception."
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INDONESIA
The United States closed its diplomatic missions across Indonesia due to continuing demonstrations over the anti-Islam film. Small and mostly orderly protests were held outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and in the cities of Surabaya and Medan, along with a couple other smaller towns. No violence was reported.
In addition to the embassy in Jakarta and consulate offices in Surabaya, Medan and Bali, the American mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations also was shut.
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IRAQ
About 3,000 people, mostly followers of Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim groups, protested against the film and caricatures in the southern city of Basra. Demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, chanting "death to America" and "no to America."
They burnt Israeli and American flags. One of the organizers, Qassim al-Moussawi, told AP that people gathered "to express our anger and resentment on the offenses made against our prophet."
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SIR LANKA
About 2,000 Muslims burned effigies of President Barack Obama and American flags at a protest after Friday prayers in the capital, Colombo, demanding that the United States ban the anti-Islam film.
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BANGLADESH
Over 2,000 people marched through the streets of the capital, Dhaka, to protest the film. They burned a makeshift coffin draped in an American flag, and an effigy of Obama.
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LEBANON
Thousands gathered in the Bekaa valley for the latest in a series of protest rallies organized by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Protesters carried the yellow Hezbollah flag.
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KASHMIR
Police enforced a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, and chased away protesters opposing the anti-Islam film. Authorities in the region also temporarily blocked cell phone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips.
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GERMANY
The Interior Ministry said it was postponing a poster campaign aimed at countering radical Islam among young people due to tensions caused by the online video insulting Islam. It said posters for the campaign ? in German, Turkish and Arabic ? were meant to go on display in German cities with large immigrant populations on Friday, but are being withheld because of the changed security situation. Germany is home to an estimated 4 million Muslims.
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