Dresden riots: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting 'foreigners out' Saturday August 22nd, 2015 at 1:11 PM
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Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants.
British police say a single-seater jet has crashed at an airshow in southern England, causing several casualties.
At least 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded in government airstrikes on the Damascus suburb of Douma, according to Syrian activists.
A judge at Brazil’s federal electoral court has asked prosecutors to investigate donations to President Dilma Rousseff’s 2014 re-election campaign.
Thousands of Migrants Rush Past Police into Macedoniaby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Thousands of migrants on Saturday rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian police who attempted to block them from entering the country from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and several people were injured in the border clashes. Security forces managed to contain hundreds, but several thousand others — many of them Syrian refugees — tore through muddy fields into Macedonian territory after days spent in the open without access to shelter, food or water. The tumult started when...
On Friday, three Americans helped to subdue a rifle-toting attacker on a French high speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris before he could carry out an attack. Here’s what we know about the men U.S. European Command Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove called “heroes.”
Who They Are
The Americans, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, are friends who were traveling in Europe on vacation, according to CNN. Stone and Sadler live in Sacramento, Cal. while Skarlatos is from Roseburg, Ore. Sadler is a senior at Sacramento State University studying physical therapy.
Their Training
Stone is a member of the Air Force, Skarlatos is a member of the National Guard who recently returned from Afghanistan, and Sadler is a civilian.
How They Stopped the Attack
When the friends heard glass shattering and people running, they decided to overtake the attacker, who was carrying a Kalishnikov rifle, a pistol, box cutter and other weaponry. According to an account Skarlatos gave to the New York Times, Spencer grabbed the gunman by the neck while Skarlatos managed to wrest his rifle away.
Sadler described the attack to the Associated Press:
“As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, ‘Spencer, go!’ And Spencer runs down the aisle,” Sadler said. “Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a boxcutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he was unconscious.”
Their Injuries
Stone was slashed by the box cutter in the head and neck multiple times. He is being treated at a nearby hospital, along with two passengers, one of whom was shot and another who was slashed in the neck.
What They’re Doing Now
French President Francois Holland will meet with the Americans in coming days, while U.S. President Barack Obama praised their travelers in a statement: “Their heroic actions may have prevented a far worse tragedy,” he said.
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Seven Dead in U.K. Airshow Crash by Jacob Davidson
(LONDON) — A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said Saturday.
The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on the road as it crashed Saturday afternoon. Witnesses told local TV that the jet appeared to have crashed when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver.
West Sussex Police said seven died and one patient with life-threatening injuries was taken to the hospital. A further 14 people were treated for minor injuries.
A witness, Stephen Jones, told the BBC that the pilot had just begun his display.
“He’d gone up into a loop and as he was coming out of the loop I just thought, you’re too low, you’re too low, pull up. And he flew straight into the ground either on or very close to the A27, which runs past the airport,” Jones said.
The force said all the casualties were believed to have occurred on the road, and no one on the airfield was believed injured.
News reports carried video and photographs of a fireball erupting near trees and huge plumes of thick black smoke rising.
The road was closed in both directions Saturday.
Suicide Bombing in Kabul Kills Up to 12 and Wounds Scoresby AHMAD SHAKIB and ROD NORDLAND
The blast took place in the center of Kabul, apparently targeting a vehicle carrying armed foreigners, but there was no immediate word on who was responsible.
Shocking new images show ISIS barbarians desecrate the 1,500-year-old Mar Elian Monastery in Al-Qaryatayn, Syria, where they have also abducted over 100 people.
Ashley Madison hackers have released another batch of secret information and spoken out for the first time after the bombshell leaks.
The figure has surged by eight percentage points in a single month amid the crisis at Calais, during which thousands of illegal immigrants have laid siege to the Channel Tunnel.
The heavily armed shooter who was taken down by three unarmed US men on a train outside Arras was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, along with nine magazines and up to 300 rounds of ammunition.
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Iranian official says British Embassy in Tehran to reopen Sunday after nearly 4 years closed
A French passenger was the first to tackle the gunman who opened fire on a train between Amsterdam and Paris, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the country's latest domestically produced ballistic missile on Saturday, saying such weapons are necessary for defence in the Middle East.
China syndrome: how the slowdown could spread to the Brics and beyond by Larry Elliott and Phillip Inman
Emerging markets, once the world’s great economic hope, could see the good times end as Beijing falters. We look at which countries are most vulnerable to the 21st century’s next financial crisis
Tumbling share prices. A sell-off in commodity markets. Capital flight from some of the world’s riskier countries. Hints of a looming currency war. Financial markets ended last week in panic mode as fears emerged that the world was about to enter the next phase of the crisis that began eight years ago in August 2007.
Back then, the problems began in the developed world – in American and European banks – and spread to the rest of the world. The bigger emerging markets – China and India most notably – recovered quickly and acted as the locomotive for global growth while the west was struggling.
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A French couple have fallen to their death while having sex at a historic fortress, it has been reported.
A Spanish official has claimed the man suspected of attacking passengers on a French train, narrowly averted only by the actions of two off-duty soldiers, had previously travelled to Syria.
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Police, FBI searching for motive after fatal shooting at federal building in New York City
Turkish military: 29 Kurdish rebels killed in new air strikes targeting PKK in northern Iraq
Police in Azerbaijan detain 21 protesters angered by man's death in police custody
Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands prepare for weakening Hurricane Danny
Explosion rips through chemical plant in eastern China; no casualties reported yet
Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France.
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An explosion rocks a chemical plant in China's eastern Shandong province, Chinese media report.
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7 Killed in Philippines Typhoonby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The torrential rains of Typhoon Goni are pummeling the northern Philippines. Seven people have died in the onslaught and two are missing, according to a report by the national disaster council. Thousands have been evacuated or fled to higher ground. The strong rains — which have triggered landslides and floods — caused a major river to overflow in Abra province, the area's governor said. "The Abra river has turned into an ocean," Governor Eustaquio Bersamin told...
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Explosion at chemical plant in east China, casualties unknown: Xinhua
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(BEIJING) — China’s Xinhua Agency says an explosion has ripped through a chemical plant in eastern China.
Xinhua says no casualties were immediately reported following the blast Saturday night in the Shandong province.
The news agency says the explosion triggered a fire and that a dozen fire engines are battling the fire.
The blast follows the Aug. 12 chemical warehouse explosion in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin. At least 121 people were killed in that disaster, while another 54 remain unaccounted for.
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Marijuana Kills Cancer Says US National Cancer Instituteby The European Union Times
Cannabis kills cancer, the National Cancer Institute admits.
The institute recently updated its ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ page about marijuana to include various studies revealing how cannabis “may inhibit tumor growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumors to grow” while also protecting normal, healthy cells.
“A laboratory study of cannabidiol (CBD) in estrogen receptor positive and estrogen receptor negative breast cancer cells showed that it caused cancer cell death while having little effect on normal breast cells,” the NCI stated. “Studies in mouse models of metastatic breast cancer showed that cannabinoids may lessen the growth, number, and spread of tumors.”
Here’s the NCI’s full list:
- Studies in mice and rats have shown that cannabinoids may inhibit tumor growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumors to grow. Laboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids may be able to kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells.
- A study in mice showed that cannabinoids may protect against inflammation of the colon and may have potential in reducing the risk of colon cancer, and possibly in its treatment.
- A laboratory study of delta-9-THC in hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) cells showed that it damaged or killed the cancer cells. The same study of delta-9-THC in mouse models of liver cancer showed that it had antitumor effects. Delta-9-THC has been shown to cause these effects by acting on molecules that may also be found in non-small cell lung cancer cells and breast cancer cells.
- A laboratory study of cannabidiol (CBD) in estrogen receptor positive and estrogen receptor negative breast cancer cells showed that it caused cancer cell death while having little effect on normal breast cells. Studies in mouse models of metastatic breast cancer showed that cannabinoids may lessen the growth, number, and spread of tumors.
- A laboratory study of cannabidiol (CBD) in human glioma cells showed that when given along with chemotherapy, CBD may make chemotherapy more effective and increase cancer cell death without harming normal cells. Studies in mouse models of cancer showed that CBD together with delta-9-THC may make chemotherapy such as temozolomide more effective.
Additionally, the National Institute on Drug Abuse also referenced similar, recent studies which revealed “marijuana can kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others.”
“Evidence from one animal study suggests that extracts from whole-plant marijuana can shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumors,” the NIDA said in April. “Research in mice showed that these extracts, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation.”
But you’re still going to jail if you get caught using it as medication in most states.
“The worst part is that even marijuana without THC is still illegal, despite having zero ‘high’ effects,” health expert Anthony Gucciardi wrote. “A quick search within the PubMed National Library of Medicine database for ‘marijuana’ turns up a host of studies, highlighting every aspect imaginable regarding the plant in its many forms.”
Despite all these numerous, proven benefits of marijuana, the federal government wants it to remain illegal while the FDA approves expensive prescription drugs with more side effects and far less research.
“The truth? Marijuana is backed by more clinical research than most pharmaceutical drugs,” Gucciardi added.
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Ecuador's highest active volcano, the Cotopaxi, spews ash and smoke for hours. Report by Lauren Hampshire.
Three American men and one Briton describe how they overpowered a heavily-armed gunman on a train in northern France. Report by Cara Legg.
It’s time for enlightened countries to address a human-rights chasm.
European Commission chief Jean Claude Juncker will hold talks in Brussels with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the tattered ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, the commission said August 21.
Man's Death Sparks Clashes In Azerbaijani Cityby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
Police clashed with residents in the Azerbaijani city of Mingachevir on August 22, a day after a young Azerbaijani man was found dead after being questioned by local police.
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Two U.S. soldiers overpowered a shooter armed with an automatic rifle on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on August 21, in an incident that left three people wounded, French authorities said.
Iran has unveiled a new surface-to-surface missile, which features more advanced sensors and technology than earlier rockets.
Police clashed with residents in the Azerbaijani city of Mingachevir on August 22, a day after a young Azerbaijani man was found dead after being questioned by local police. Police say the man jumped out of a window while being interrogated. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
PARIS (Reuters) - A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier.
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Donald Trump Widens Lead Over US Republican Presidential Field: Poll
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NATO Says 3 Foreigners Among 10 Killed by Afghan Car Bomb
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Single-Seat Jet Crashes at UK Airshow,' Several Casualties'
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Iran unveils new missile, says seeks peace through strength
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Judge Orders Immigrant Families Released From Detention
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When Donald Trump launched his presidential bid in June by calling Mexican migrants “rapists,” artisan Dalton Avalos made what was likely the first piñata of the white haired red-faced tycoon. From his family workshop in the border city of Reynosa, the 28-year old added thick layers of papier-mache so the piñata, a hollow figure that is traditionally hung at fiestas, could be whacked especially hard.
Photos of the Trump piñata rapidly became a media sensation, and copies were made across Mexico and in many migrant communities in the United States. They show how many here are angry at Trump for his discourse, but also see him as a joke. “We like to laugh at people like him and the nonsense that comes out of his mouth,” Avalos says.
Such a mix of indignation and mirth characterizes the reaction to Trump’s rise by many in Mexico, who take offense at his comments on immigrants but don’t believe he is a serious contender. This attitude has largely continued despite Trump’s surge at the polls, such as this week’s CNN/ORC survey finding him 6 points behind Hillary Clinton as a preference for president. Trump’s opinion have filled Mexican news shows, making him a well-known figure south of the Rio Grande. But many here think someone with views that seem to them to be offensive and unrealistic could never be the president of their powerful northern neighbor.
“Donald Trump is loco (mad),” says Angelica Cortes, a 37-year old architect coming out of an office block in a middle class Mexico City neighborhood. “The people of the United States would never put him in charge. What he says makes me indignant. He attacks people who are just trying to make a living, to feed their families.”
Even migrant activists, who represent the community most threatened by Trump’s proposed policies, refuse to believe that Trump is a credible challenge. “His ideas are so ridiculous that they could never happen,” says activist Jorge Mujica, who is originally from Mexico City but now lives in Chicago and is part of the Mexican American Coalition. In a policy paper released Sunday, Trump proposed ending birth right citizenship and seizing money sent by migrants from the United States to Mexico among other measures. He has also called for Mexico to pay for an extended wall on the southern border. “Trump doesn’t seem to realize that these things are politically impossible,” Mujica says. “Rather than making you cry, it makes you laugh.”
However, some Mexican academics are beginning to take the ascent of “The Donald” more seriously in light of the recent polls. “A month ago, I thought that Trump had absolutely no chance. But now I’m not totally sure. Americans can vote in weird ways,” says Jorge Chabat at Mexico City’s Center for Research and Teaching in Economics. Nevertheless, he thinks even a Trump presidency could not alter the Mexico-U.S. relationship that drastically. “Presidents are not gods. Trump could attack Mexico verbally but that would not change the enormous amount of cross-border trade or the entrenched cooperation between the security services.”
There have been various tense moments between the United States and Mexico in recent decades. In 1969, President Richard Nixon virtually shut down the U.S. southern border for 10 days to pressure Mexico over marijuana production. In 1985, the Reagan administration expressed fury over the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in Mexico. In 2011, President Felipe Calderon lashed out at U.S. ambassador Carlos Pascual over diplomatic cables exposed by Wikileaks, leading to Pascual’s resignation. But throughout these eras, trade has steadily increased. Mexico is now the United States’ third biggest trading partner after Canada and China, with $506 billion in cross-border trade last year. About 11 million Mexicans are estimated to live in the United States, about half without papers.
Since Trump launched his campaign, various Mexican businesses have boycotted him. Most notably, telecoms magnate Carlos Slim, the second richest man on the planet, canceled some media projects with the presidential hopeful. “Working with someone so closed-minded was not going to work,” says Slim’s spokesman and son-in-law Arturo Elias. The U.S. based Spanish language network Univision had also announced it would no longer air Trump’s Miss Universe pageant because of his comments.
The Mexican government has issued various rebuttals to Trump’s discourse. On Wednesday, the Foreign Relations Department issued a statement calling his proposals racist. “We maintain our position that these comments (by Trump) reflect prejudice, racism and total ignorance.” On Thursday, the Department also condemned an attack on a Mexican man in Boston, in which the assailants reportedly told police that they were inspired by Trump. “Mexico strongly condemns these acts and makes a call that the contributions of the migrant community to the economy, society, values and culture of the United States are recognized.”
Mujica, the migrant activist, argues that the Mexican government should adopt an even tougher line on Trump, and asks why President Enrique Pena Nieto himself has not waded into the debate. “If your people are getting verbal abuse then you should defend them,” Mujica says. However, others says it is better not to rise to the bait. Gloria Trevi, a Mexican pop diva on a current U.S tour, said it is best to smile in the face of ignorance.“Latinos should react with class, not react in the same way as we are being provoked. We are greater than that. We have helped this country to be as big as it is in this moment,” Trevi said at a press conference in Los Angeles. “I think that with a smile on our face and with love is how we should respond to any attack and show the greatness of Latinos.”
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(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — South Korea and North Korea were holding their first high-level talks in nearly a year at a border village on Saturday to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed the rivals to the brink of a possible military confrontation.
The closed-door meeting at Panmunjom, where the armistice ending fighting in the Korean War was agreed to in 1953, began Saturday evening, shortly after a deadline set by North Korea for the Southto dismantle loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda at their border, said an official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry. North Korea had declared that its front-line troops were in full war readiness and prepared to go to battle if Seoul did not back down.
At the meeting, South Korea’s presidential national security director, Kim Kwan-jin, and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo sat down with Hwang Pyong So, the top political officer for the Korean People’s Army, and Kim Yang Gon, a senior North Korean official responsible for South Korean affairs.
Hwang is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea’s second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
The meeting came as a series of incidents raised fears that the conflict could spiral out of control, starting with a land mine attack, allegedly by the North, that maimed two South Korean soldiers and the South’s resumption of anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts.
An official from South Korea’s Defense Ministry, who didn’t want to be named because of office rules, said that the South would continue with the anti-Pyongyang broadcasts during the meeting and would make a decision on whether to halt them depending on the result of the talks.
While the meeting offered a way for the rivals to avoid a collision for now, analysts in Seoul wondered whether the countries were standing too far apart to expect a quick agreement that could defuse the conflict.
“South Korea has openly vowed to cut off the vicious cycle of North Korean provocations, so it can’t manage to walk off with a weak settlement,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Dongguk University in Seoul. “The South will also likely demand the North to take responsibility for the land mine attack and apologize, and there isn’t much reason to think that Pyongyang would accept that.”
Koh, however, said that Saturday’s meeting might open the door to more meetings between the rivals to discuss a variety of issues.
South Korea had been using 11 loudspeaker systems along the border for the broadcasts, which included the latest news around the Korean Peninsula and the world, South Korean popular music and programs praising the South’s democracy and economic affluence over the North’s oppressive government, a senior military official said at a news conference, on condition of anonymity.
Each loudspeaker system has broadcast for more than 10 hours a day in three or four different time slots that were frequently changed for unpredictability, the official said. If North Korea attacks the loudspeakers, the South is ready to strike back at the North Korean units responsible for such attacks, he said.
Authoritarian North Korea, which has also restarted its own propaganda broadcasts, is extremely sensitive to any criticism of its government. Analysts in Seoul also believe the North fears that theSouth’s broadcasts could demoralize its front-line troops and inspire them to defect.
The high-level meeting was first proposed by Pyongyang on Friday afternoon. The rival countries reached an agreement for the meeting Saturday morning after the North accepted the South’sdemand that Hwang be present at the meeting, South Korea’s presidential office said.
Hwang and Kim Yang Gon visited South Korea in October last year during the Asian Games in Incheon, but their meeting with Kim, the South’s national security director, and then-Unification Ministry Ryoo Kihl-jae failed to improve ties between the countries.
In Pyongyang, businesses were open as usual Saturday and street stalls selling ice cream were crowded as residents took breaks from the summer sun under parasols. There were no visible signs of increased security measures, though even under normal situations the city is heavily secured and fortified. More than 240 South Koreans entered a jointly run industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong.
The North’s state-run media has strongly ratcheted up its rhetoric, saying the whole nation is bracing for the possibility of an all-out war. Leader Kim Jong Un has been shown repeatedly on TV news broadcasts leading a strategy meeting with the top military brass to review the North’s attack plan, and young people are reportedly swarming to recruitment centers to sign up to join the fight.
“We have exercised our self-restraint for decades,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. “Now, no one’s talk about self-restraint is helpful to putting the situation under control. The army and people of the DPRK are poised not just to counteract or make any retaliation, but not to rule out all-out war to protect the social system, their own choice, at the risk of their lives.”
People were willing to talk about the tension and, as is common in public in North Korea — officially called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — they voiced support for their government’s policies and their leader. They also used phrases like “puppet gangsters” to refer to South Korean authorities — everyday terms in the North, in both state media and conversation.
“I think that the South Korean puppet gangsters should have the clear idea that thousands of our people and soldiers are totally confident in winning at any cost because we have our respected leader with us,” said Pyongyang citizen Choe Sin Ae.
It was not clear whether North Korea meant to attack immediately, if at all, but South Korea has vowed to continue the propaganda broadcasts, which it recently restarted following an 11-year stoppage after accusing Pyongyang of planting land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiers earlier this month.
Four U.S. F-16 fighter jets and four F-15k South Korean fighter jets simulated bombings on Saturday, starting on South Korea’s eastern coast and moving toward the U.S. base at Osan, near Seoul, officials said.
On Thursday, South Korea’s military fired dozens of artillery rounds across the border in response to what Seoul said were North Korean artillery strikes meant to back up a threat to attack the loudspeakers.
Thousands of residents in border towns were told to move to shelters ahead of the Saturday afternoon deadline, while fishermen were banned for the second straight day from entering waters near South Korean islands close to the disputed western sea border with North Korea, officials said.
The North denies responsibility for the land mine attack and says it didn’t fire across the border, a claim Seoul says is nonsense.
The standoff comes during annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. North Koreacalls the drills a preparation for invasion, although the U.S. and South Korea insist they are defensive in nature.
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Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.
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(GEVGELIJA, Macedonia) — Thousands of migrants have rushed past police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece.
The migrants went past barbed wire that blocked them from entry. Several people were injured when the police tried to stop them from rushing the border at another point on the border.
The chaos started when police decided to allow a small group of migrants with small children to cross the frontier and the rushing crowds in the back squeezed them toward the shielded police wall. Many women, at least one pregnant, and children fell to the ground apparently fainting after squeezing past the cordon.
There were no immediate reports of the number and the extent of injuries.
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