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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Clashes end Belgian unions' first major protest against new government

Demonstrators confront riot police during clashes in central Brussels BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police and a few hundred protesters, including many dockers, clashed in central Brussels on Thursday after a largely peaceful march against reforms and cost-cutting measures of the new center-right government. Several cars were overturned or set on fire and assorted projectiles thrown at the lines of police, who responded with pepper spray and water cannon. Police finally cleared the area with a charge late in the afternoon. A police spokesman declined to say how many people had been detained and how many police and protesters injured. ...




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