Politics

Geneva: Police use tear gas on WTO protest

By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Nov 28, 2009

GENEVA – Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest of a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded "black bloc" activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said.

Police, anti-IMF protesters clash in Istanbul

by Nicolas Cheviron – Wed Oct 7, 2009

ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish riot police clamped down on anti-IMF protests in Istanbul for a second day in a row Wednesday as masked demonstrators hurled petrol bombs and smashed shop windows, an AFP reporter witnessed.

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