Demonstrators hurled firebombs and stones at massed riot
police to disrupt a summit of the world's industrialized nations Friday. Police
fired water cannons and tear gas to drive them back, and said one demonstrator
was killed.


At least 46 protesters and 31 police officers were hurt and 39 people arrested in
clashes.


The dead person was not immediately identified by police, and the
circumstances of the death were not clear. The body lay in a pool of blood,
covered by a white sheet and surrounded by dozens of police who kept
reporters at bay.


Witnesses gave conflicting accounts, some saying the person had been shot,
others saying the death was the result of a beating by police.
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Reuters -- A protester has died after being shot in the head by an Italian paramilitary trooper while a big power summit was under way in Genoa, witnesses and authorities said.

A Reuters photographer saw a group of anti-globalisation demonstrators attack a Carabinieri van with stones. A protester was hit by two gunshots from the van after throwing a fire extinguisher at the vehicle.

The demonstrator fell to the ground and then was run over by a Carabinieri jeep that backed over him, the photographer said.

A police spokesman in Genoa confirmed that the unidentified man had died but did not provide any details.
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Italian indymedia.org site

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nomadlab writes: "Ms. Tanaka's visit to Washington DC was agreed to by the US government after strenuous efforts by the Japanese government. The objective of her trip was
to vindicate what she expressed about US foreign policies at meetings with her counterparts from other countries. She conveyed her messages of criticism
about the foreign polices of the US government to them. She must have told them faithfully what she believed.


Her address immediately caused problems in the Japanese political world.


During the conversation with her old classmates at the reception in German Town High School, The Weekly Post learned that Ms. Tanaka made a remark
about George Bush, "He is totally an asshole" in English...

There has never been a statesman in Japanese history that called a US president, 'an asshole.'

the whole report can be found here."

nomadlab writes: "Police in South Africa have arrested about 70 squatters on land near Johannesburg, a day before the Pretoria High Court is to hear the government's application to evict them.

The squatters put up no resistance and there was no violence, police spokeswoman Mary Martins-Engelbrecht told the Reuters news agency.


Thousands of poor black South Africans have moved onto the land since the opposition Pan Africanist Congress began registering claims for the sum of 25 rand - about three dollars.

The government charges that the PAC is aiding an illegal land grab, while the opposition party said the land "belongs to Africans"."