S Korea farmers protest over rice
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Thousands of South Korean farmers clash with police in Seoul as part of protests over  rice imports.
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A South Korean group said on Monday it  had obtained what it said was the first visual evidence of  dissent in communist North Korea that indicated an organized  attempt at a movement against its leader, Kim Jong-il.
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About 100,000 South Koreans staged an anti-communist rally on Monday, burning North Korean flags to press their calls for the downfall of the Pyongyang government and an end of its suspected nuclear weapons programs.
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Thousands of South Korean farmers clash with police in Seoul after a rally against foreign rice imports.
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Consumer groups call one-day pasta-buying boycott in protest at increasing costs that have seen its price rise by almost 20%.
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The disclosure last month that American long-grain rice has become widely contaminated with traces of an experimental, gene-altered rice has provoked an economic crisis for farmers and reignited a long-smoldering debate over the adequacy of U.S. oversight of biotech food.
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South Korean police used water cannon in central Seoul Sunday to disperse at least 7,000 protesters urging the government to reverse a controversial decision to send more troops to Iraq.
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A controversial genetically modified  rice strain found in commercial supplies last month should not  be approved by the U.S. Agriculture Department, which a  consumer group said on Thursday has failed to adequately  protect farmers and consumers.
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Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and labor strikes Wednesday to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions.
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In a march organized on Facebook, hundreds of thousands protested against the leftist rebel group Monday.
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Police scuffled with hundreds of protesters in central Seoul Monday as an estimated 100,000 people rallied against calls for the abolition of a security law crafted a half-century ago to fight communism.
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Around 50 members of Myanmar&#39;s main  opposition party staged a protest march in a provincial town on  Monday, witnesses said, as a major junta crackdown failed to  stifle rare displays of public anger at soaring fuel prices.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday to protest Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.
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South Korean police fought Saturday to quell thousands of rioting farmers in Seould after a rally against foreign rice imports, the BBC reported.
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About 20,000 people, half of them Buddhist monks, protested Sunday at a pagoda in downtown Yangon in an escalating show of dissent against the military government, witnesses said.
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Dairy farmers are to protest at Tesco stores about the amount of the money they receive from the sale of milk.
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Consumer groups held nationwide protests Thursday to draw attention to the burden placed on families by the rising cost of food &#151; especially Italians' beloved staple, pasta.