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Everyone is sure, however, that the now inevitable demonstrations have become combustible. At last September's IMF-World Bank summit in Prague, demonstrators put 20 policemen in the hospital and injured 103 more. The Goteborg melee ended with three people shot, the first time live ammunition has been used against antiglobalization demonstrators in the Western world--an incident that has radicalized many of them. (A 19-year-old Goteborg protester who was shot in the stomach remains hospitalized.) "Things are coming to a head," says Shaun Dey, an activist in the London-based outfit Globalize Resistance. "The way things...
...protestor was killed Friday in dramatic clashes between Italian police and thousands of demonstrators in Genoa, the site of the current summit between the leaders of the world?s largest industrial powers...
...protestors are demonstrating against a variety of aspects of globalization - the crowds included union members, environmentalists, farmers and anarchists - and filled the streets of Genoa, battling police with bottles, stones and firebombs. At least 20,000 police officers and soldiers are stationed in the city during the summit, and they responded with batons, tear gas, water cannons and possibly live ammunition...
...still enjoy memorable shops and museums in Genoa--even if you're one of the thousands of business and government executives who will be joining President Bush and other heads of the world's major industrial economies next week at the annual Group of Eight summit...
...relationship between the two countries is undergoing a transition, and a new defense arrangement was, in fact, at the top of the agenda of the weekend Bush-Koizumi summit. The big unanswered question: How to make room for a more assertive Japan? Last year, Japan's parliament approved measures to begin rethinking its constitution, including war-renouncing Article 9. On paper, the move is a baby step toward change. Yet in the context of Japan?where the merest suggestion of re-arming has traditionally been severely rebuked?the legislative step was dramatic. Once legal barriers to a full-fledged military...