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• Environmentalists climb on Heathrow jet in airport protest: officials

  - 2008-02-25

  LONDON AFP — Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday. The activists climbed on top of a British Airways Boeing 777 plane which had just landed from...

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• Airline pilots call for talks with climate change protesters

  - 2007-08-18

  LONDON AFP — The British Airline Pilots' Association called Saturday for talks with demonstrators staging an ongoing climate change protest at Heathrow airport west of London. Several hundred activists have set up temporary home near the village of Harlington, close to Heathrow, in a tented village called the "Camp...

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• Greenpeace protesters dump soya at Cargill offices in Britain

  - 2006-05-22

  LONDON AFP — Greenpeace activists dumped piles of soya at the US firm Cargill's offices outside London to protest against the crop being grown on parts of the Amazon rainforest that had been illegally deforested. "This morning we dumped four tonnes of soya outside the European headquarters of Cargill...

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• Batman, Robin, Captain America in fathers' rights protest at Foreign Office

  - 2005-02-28

  LONDON AFP — Three members of a fathers' rights group, dressed as Batman, Robin and Captain America, clambered onto a first-floor ledge at the Foreign Office, prompting a security alert at the heart of government power in London. Police were seen at a window of the Foreign Office trying...

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• Greenpeace activists in custody after protest at London oil exchange

  - 2005-02-17

  LONDON AFP — Twenty-seven Greenpeace activists were in police custody, a day after they halted trading at London's oil exchange with a protest to mark the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The protesters were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they erupted into the International Petroleum Exchange...

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• Massive N. Ireland bank heist may be IRA 'pension fund'

  - 2004-12-28

  LONDON AFP — A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution. Detectives suspect that the Irish Republican Army IRA, the main Catholic paramilitary group...

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• European Social Forum fails to attract the poor, activists say

  - 2004-10-17

  LONDON AFP — Activists have hit out after the latest European Social Forum ESF, held in London, failed to attract the most vulnerable and deprived members of society due to being staged in one of the world's most expensive cities. The three-day forum ended Sunday with the publication of...

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• Israeli whistleblower Vanunu makes appeal to European Social Forum

  - 2004-10-16

  LONDON AFP — Mordechai Vanunu, released in April after 18 years in an Israeli jail for revealing his country's nuclear program, sent a peace message to a gathering of left-wing and counter-culture groups, calling for a reduction of all military budgets. Speaking by telephone from Israel in a call...

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• British police mum on Israeli stance on shooting of pacifist

  - 2004-01-17

  LONDON AFP ? Police in London probing the death of British peace activist Tom Hurndall, who died after being shot in the head in the Gaza Strip, refused to be drawn on a report that Israel had prevented them from conducting inquiries. "On behalf of the coroner, we've been...

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• British peace activist dies in coma after being shot by Israeli soldier

  - 2004-01-14

  LONDON AFP ? A British peace activist, who had been in a coma and brain dead since being shot by an Israeli soldier at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza strip in April last year, has died, his family said. "Tom died last night" Tuesday at the specialist...

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