The moment protesters found a plain-clothes cop in their midst
Campaigners complain of invasive policing tactics against Occupy movement in London
Usually, it is the police who kettle protesters. The tables were turned, though, when demonstrators unmasked and surrounded a plain-clothes officer who had infiltrated their midst during this week's public sector protests.
The hoodie-wearing interloper was discovered by protesters from the Occupy movement from St Paul's while they were attempting to take over a building near Piccadilly Circus in central London on Wednesday.
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Merkel says solution to financial crisis will take years
ARTHUR BEESLEY in Brussels and RUADHĂN Mac CORMAIC in Paris
German chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is no easy fix to the European financial crisis, and that a solution will “take years”.
In a speech to the Bundestag this morning, Mrs Merkel said “the German government has made it clear that the European crisis will not be solved in one fell swoop”.
She added: “It’s a process, and that process will take years.”
Mrs Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are pushing for a reorganisation of existing regulations aimed at keeping the eurozone from breaking apart.
Pressure on Japan to review whaling
Citizens groups and non-governmental organisations urged the government on Friday to implement a fundamental review of whaling as the Japanese fleet was expected to leave soon for this year's hunt in the Southern Ocean.
The groups criticised the government for earmarking money in its budget for whaling, which is subject to a 1986 international moratorium and is opposed by many other countries.
Japan approved a Y12.1 trillion ($153 billion) supplementary budget in late November, which would fund reconstruction in the north-east, which was ravaged by the March earthquake and tsunami.
Democracy beyond Cairo
JACK SHENKER IN CAIRO Dec 02 2011 00:00
Tarek Mustafa was shot dead on January 28, a
police bullet flying through the 24-year-old's
neck as he stood in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab
Square, taking photographs of the revolution
that was rapidly erupting all around him.
His father, Magdy -- who now goes by the name of Abu Shaheed, or "father of the martyr" -- can pinpoint the exact place where it happened: a grubby mound of sand and soil in front of the neighbourhood's now burned-out police station.
"Ask anyone, and they'll tell you Tarek was loved beyond belief by all who knew him," said Magdy. "He was a graduate from the faculty of commerce, yet in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt that meant he could only get a job quarrying rocks for the metro system.
"Ask anyone, and they'll tell you Tarek was loved beyond belief by all who knew him," said Magdy. "He was a graduate from the faculty of commerce, yet in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt that meant he could only get a job quarrying rocks for the metro system.
| Suu Kyi welcomes US engagement with Myanmar |
Opposition leader, after meeting Clinton, says improved ties with US can help her country's democratisation.
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2011 09:12
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition leader, has welcomed US engagement with Myanmar, saying she hoped it would set her long-isolated country on the road to democracy.
Hillary Clinton, the visiting US secretary of state, held a final meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday as she wrapped up a landmark visit to Myanmar which saw the new civilian government pledge to forge ahead with political reforms.
The two met at Suu Kyi's lakeside home, effectively her prison until she was released last November after years in detention.
"We are happy with the way in which the United States is engaging with us and it is through engagement that we hope to
promote a process of democratisation," Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate, said.
promote a process of democratisation," Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate, said.
Report: Pakistan gave OK to deadly US air strike
WSJ: Representatives at joint border-control center said no forces were in the area
Pakistani officials gave the go-ahead to a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday quoting U.S. officials.
Last weekend's cross-border attack has caused public outrage in Pakistan, where the government has pulled out of next week's international conference on Afghanistan and threatened to end support for the U.S.-led war there if its sovereignty is violated again.
The U.S. officials, giving their first detailed explanation of the worst friendly-fire incident of the 10-year-old war, said an Afghan-led assault force that included U.S. commandos was hunting Taliban militants when it came under fire from an encampment along the border with Pakistan, the Journal said in an online repor
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