Santa protest closes bridge
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Protesters dressed as Father Christmas climb a motorway bridge ahead of a visit to Wales by the Queen.
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Hundreds of steel workers meet to discuss their future after their plant closed days before Christmas.
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Workers at almost 300 post offices are to go on strike on Christmas Eve in a dispute over the day's opening hours.
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A bridge under construction in south Vietnam has collapsed, killing at least 36 workers, officials say.
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Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and staged strikes to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions. Chanting ÂDown, down F.T.A.,Â thousands of protesters held a peaceful rally near the city hall in central Seoul, while hundreds clashed with police in the southwestern city of Gwangju. No injuries were reported. The protest comes less than two weeks before South Korean and American negotiators meet for their fifth round of free trade talks in the United States to hammer out an accord that would sharply reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. Seoul and Washington started the negotiations in June and have made some headway, but they are unlikely to wrap up an agreement by the end of this year, as originally hoped.
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German police broke through a blockade of activists and felled a 200-year-old beech tree on Tuesday to clear the way for a new bridge over the Elbe river that is opposed by environmentalists and UNESCO.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 6--OREGON CITY -- City officials temporarily halted the removal of  53 trees along McLoughlin Boulevard on Monday after a sudden wave of  opposition surfaced over the weekend.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt as local security forces struggled to keep the protest under control.
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There was a carnival atmosphere outside the Israeli parliament today as thousands of the children of Jewish settlers turned out to protest against the planned closure of the settlements in Gaza.
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By DON BABWIN CHICAGO - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says.
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By Tania Valdemoro, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A labor march through Miami Beach -- with drum beating, hip shaking and cries of "Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole" -- ended abruptedly Friday night after police arrested a local union member who stormed the Fisher Island ferry.
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A school in traditionally Catholic Spain has cancelled Christmas celebrations so as not to offend children who are not Christians, ABC newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
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Officials shut down a major Mississippi River bridge Monday after one of its piers settled nearly 4 inches during the night in a construction zone.
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On Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2 PM, locked out registered nurses and hospital workers will participate in a dramatic protest action at Sutter Solano Medical Center, one of the Sutter hospitals which has locked them out from their patients for four days.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine closed the state government Saturday amid a bitter dispute with fellow Democrats in the Assembly over his plan to increase the sales tax, threatening to shutter beaches, parks and possibly casinos in the coming days.
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DALHOUSIE, NB (CP) - Five of six roadblocks put up by protesters upset over the closure of local hospital beds in northern New Brunswick were taken down Wednesday.