World News - Scuffles at London Guy Fawkes demos

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  • xman
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    • Sep 2006
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    World News - Scuffles at London Guy Fawkes demos

    divdiv class=story-body readability=21 span class=story-date#13; span class=date6 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time01:14 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1Scuffles have broken out after protests by the Anonymous movement at Buckingham Palace and Parliament./p#13; pHundreds of protesters started a fire near the palace and blocked Parliament Square in the Bonfire Night protests./p#13; pThe demonstrators, many of them wearing Guy Fawkes masks, were confronted by police, some of them in riot gear./p#13; pAnonymous was due to hold protests at locations around the world, with similar events reported in Japan, Australia and New Zealand./p#13; pLinked protests took place in more than a dozen Brazilian cities including in the country's business capital Rio de Janeiro where traffic was brought to a standstill./p#13; pActivists also took to the streets in cities including Washington, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Dublin, Warsaw and Beirut./p#13; pComedian Russell Brand was pictured attending the protest in London, while Green Party MP Caroline Lucas tweeted that she had taken part./p#13; pThe demonstrations against austerity cuts, corruption and state surveillance were promoted on Twitter with the hashtag #MillionMaskMarch./p#13; pProtesters said they planned to burn energy bills as part of the events in London./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center
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