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• Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Rome for food summit: agency

  - 2008-06-03

  ROME AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Rome on Tuesday to attend the UN food agency summit amid protests from Jewish groups and Italian activists. Ahmadinejad's plane touched down at Rome's Ciampino airport shortly after 9:00 am, the airport news agency reported. The Iranian leader said...

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• Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump

  - 2008-05-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — At a Shell gas station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices. "Last week, this station was 3.51 dollars. Now it's practically 3.60. So it's gone up nine cents in one week," Twyman said as...

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• Four more arrested over Myanmar protest

  - 2007-02-26

  YANGON AFP — Four more people have been arrested in military-ruled Myanmar over a small protest last week against high food prices, an activist said Tuesday, bringing to nine the number in custody. The protest by about 25 people in a Yangon market on Thursday was the first time...

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• Microcredit campaigners claim success in helping world's poorest

  - 2006-11-01

  WASHINGTON AFP — A program aimed at helping the world's poorest people with small business loans is well on its way to achieving its goal of reaching 100 million people, US-based activists said. Campaigners with the Microcredit Summit Campaign set an ambitious goal in 1997 of advancing tiny loans to...

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• Greenpeace demands Poland ban imports of GM foods

  - 2005-02-11

  WARSAW AFP — Around 30 activists from environmental group Greenpeace blocked the entrance to the office of Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka for nearly two hours to demand that Poland ban imports of genetically modified produce. Some of the protesters chained themselves to the metal fencing around the prime...

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• Nepal's activists face long detention, as govt warns against hoarding

  - 2005-02-08

  KATHMANDU AFP — Nepal's army said that activists rounded up after the king's power grab a week ago could be locked up for three months, as the new government warned traders and citizens against hoarding food and fuel before a protest strike called by Maoist rebels. The army also...

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• French activists rip up genetically modified crops

  - 2004-07-25

  TOULOUSE, France AFP ? Hundreds of activists opposed to genetically modified crops tore out rows of maize in southwestern France and threatened similar future actions of "civil disobedience" to stop the cultivation of bio-engineered food. The group of between 500 and 1,500 was led by Jose Bove, a noted...

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• Greenpeace activists block shipment of GM maize and soy in Greece

  - 2004-05-22

  ATHENS AFP ? Greenpeace environmental activists blocked a shipment of genetically-modified GM maize and soy from being unloaded near the western Greek town of Corinth until they received guarantees the produce would be controlled according to EU law. Four activists boarded the "Flag Tom", which sailed from Argentina, while...

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