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968 arrests at Copenhagen mass climate rallyCopenhagen (AFP) Dec 13, 2009 Police arrested almost 1,000 people among the violent fringes of a mass rally in Copenhagen intended to put pressure on the UN climate summit to take stronger action. Tens of thousands of people took part in the Saturday march to the heavily guarded conference centre where world powers are struggling to hammer out a deal to combat global warming. Other rallies were held around the world from Australia to the Arctic Circle. Most of the main Copenhagen rally was peaceful, but police moved in when hundreds of youths clad in black threw bricks and smashed windows. ... read more |
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Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 12, 2009Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Copenhagen on Saturday calling for tough action from the UN climate conference, after police arrested some 400 rioters at the start of the protest. Organisers of the rally had repeatedly urged the crowd to remain calm and friendly before the march began, and the speeches were dominated by calls for social justice and critiques of global capital ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 11, 2009Developing nations at the UN climate conference rejected as "insignificant" on Friday an EU pledge of 7.2 billion euros (10.6 billion dollars) to help them tackle global warming. As Copenhagen braced for Saturday protests expected to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators, EU leaders agreed the funding -- to be paid out over three years -- at a summit in Brussels. The accord came a week ... more  
Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 12, 2009African drums and traditional dancers kicked off the Miss World pageant in South Africa, where the glitzy night began in the shadow of reports that one contestant was linked to a religious cult. Dressed in brightly coloured full-length gowns, the contestants were introduced on stage in a live broadcast with one billion expected viewers worldwide. As they lined the stage, drummers and ... more |
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Lagos (AFP) Dec 12, 2009Some 5,000 Nigerian volunteers turned out Saturday armed with paint brushes to give a facelift to Mushin, a notorious slum in the centre of the country's commercial capital Lagos. Led by Abimbola Fashola, the wife of Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, the volunteers administered paints to seven selected streets in the community, known for being overcrowded and chaotic and plagued with ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2009A gunman on Saturday shot dead 11 people and set fire to five houses in his home village in China's Hunan province, the state news agency Xinhua reported, citing provincial police. The 34-year-old, surnamed Liu, went on the killing spree in the village of Gaoming early in the morning, a police spokesman said. Besides the dead, one person was critically wounded. Police were hunting the ... more  
Gaza City (AFP) Dec 13, 2009Two more people died of swine flu in the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday, bringing to 10 the total number of Gazans who have been killed by the disease, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. "Two more cases died today, a 25-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man, bringing the total number of deaths from A(H1N1) to 10," said Hassan Khalaf, a ministry spokesman. He added that another 67 ... more |
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