Protesters Denounce APEC Summit in Chile
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Thousands of protesters marched peacefully through downtown Santiago on Friday, expressing anger at a weekend summit of Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush. But violence later erupted at a rock concert.
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Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and labor strikes Wednesday to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions.
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SANTIAGO  - Leaders of the Asia-Pacific axis promised a hard crackdown on terror and united against North Korean nuclear weapons program at a summit in Chile, but they ducked a radical new plan for region-wide free trade.
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Leaders from 38 Asian and European countries are in Vietnam&#39;s capital Hanoi for the fifth Asia-Europe summit. The European delegations say they will use the meeting to protest against the
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By Jason Webb SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hooded anti-American marchersprotesting an Asia-Pacific summit in Chile on Friday hurledMolotov cocktails and stones at police who retaliated withwater cannons and tear gas.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Thousands of protesters marched peacefully through downtown Santiago on Friday, expressing anger at a weekend summit of Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush.
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Thousands protest in Cuzco, Peru, against a law promoting development near ancient Inca monuments.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of Chileans, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday as his family criticized the government for denying the former dictator a state funeral.
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Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and staged strikes to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions. Chanting ÂDown, down F.T.A.,Â thousands of protesters held a peaceful rally near the city hall in central Seoul, while hundreds clashed with police in the southwestern city of Gwangju. No injuries were reported. The protest comes less than two weeks before South Korean and American negotiators meet for their fifth round of free trade talks in the United States to hammer out an accord that would sharply reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. Seoul and Washington started the negotiations in June and have made some headway, but they are unlikely to wrap up an agreement by the end of this year, as originally hoped.
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Chilean anti-riot forces in armoured vehicles fired water and tear gas at protesters in central Santiago on Friday, hours before the arrival of US President George W Bush for a major summit.
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Greeted by raucous protests on his arrival for the APEC summit in Santiago, Chile, Prime Minister Paul Martin called such demonstrations &quot;essential&quot; to democracy.
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Hundreds of students protesting against the Apec meeting in Chile and an upcoming visit by US President George W Bush have clashed with riot police.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group (Apec).
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Top government ministers from 21 Pacific Rim nations convened high-level talks on free trade and global security Wednesday as police battled university students protesting the summit and a weekend visit by President Bush.
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Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Econo-mic Cooperation forum gather in Santiago, Chile today for their annual costume party. The two-day APEC summit has a broad agenda to push the groupingâs original aim of free trade in the region by 2020.
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US President George W Bush is stepping up pressure on North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear weapons programmes. At the Apec summit of Pacific-rim countries in Chilean capital Santiago Mr Bush has been
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of an annual Apec summit in the South American nation.