Berlin - As a trainload of nuclear waste crossed Germany Sunday, riot police drew batons to push back demonstrators who tried to block a railway line.
On Saturday, the train had been delayed for more than 11 hours by three militants who chained themselves to a track near the French border. Police had to carefully dismantle a lump of concrete buried under the track to detach the trio.
Protesters later tried to occupy another railway line, 500 kilometres to the north, where the train was expected to arrive on Monday. The remains of nuclear fuel rods are bound for a German nuclear waste warehouse.
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Berlin - Separating three protesters from a German railtrack was slow work Saturday for a team of police after the anti-nuclear activists used an ingenious method to lock themselves in place.
During the morning, the two men and a woman fixed their hands and arms inside tubes inside a huge lump of concrete under the track, according to fellow protesters.
A trainload of nuclear waste was unable to pass along the line. Obstructing tracks is one way the anti-nuclear movement shows its opposition to the transport of waste.
Berlin - Five past winners of the Nobel Economics Prize generally favour an increase in regulation of financial markets, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
The magazine said it asked them for comment before key world leaders hold a G20 meeting on the crisis in Washington.
Those asked for a recipe were four US academics, Joseph E Stiglitz, Paul A Samuelson, Edmund S Phelps and Robert E Lucas and one German, Reinhard Selten.
Lucas was quoted saying the best solution would be a competitive banking system where deposits were guaranteed by the state.
Berlin - Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators were trying Saturday to obstruct a tightly guarded convoy of spent nuclear fuel on its way to a German waste dump.
Near the warehouse in Gorleben in the northern German countryside where many tons of radioactive waste are stored, some 14,500 demonstrators attended a protest rally accompanied by bands, police said.
Berlin - Germans must act against racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, a day before Germany marks a 1938 pogrom against Jewish residents.
Ceremonies were to be held Sunday to recall Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis smashed up Jewish-owned shops, burned or ransacked synagogues and killed 91 people throughout Germany, according to the official toll.
Berlin - Separating three protesters from a German railtrack was slow work Saturday for a team of police after the anti-nuclear activists used an ingenious method to lock themselves in place.
Berlin - Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators were trying Saturday to obstruct a tightly guarded convoy of spent nuclear fuel on its way to a German waste dump.
Berlin - Germans must act against racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, a day before Germany marks a 1938 pogrom against Jewish residents.
