Wall Street protesters march into third month

NEW YORK: Occupy Wall Street marched into its third month Friday after protests in several US cities and parts of Europe, with 250 arrests and clashes with police in the movement’s New York epicenter.Thousands of activists protesting against alleged corporate greed marched across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge Thursday in a show of force after being evicted from their home base in a Manhattan park earlier this week.The protests were part of a “Global Day of Action” to mark the movement’s two-month anniversary, with hundreds of demonstrations planned across the country to protest against the “one percent” of political and business elites.Police evicted protesters in Los Angeles and Dallas, arresting dozens of people in the latest...

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China’s Wen warns “outside forces” off sea dispute

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday that “outside forces” had no excuse to get involved in a complex dispute over the South China Sea, offering a veiled warning to the United States and others not to stick their noses into the sensitive issue.But Wen also struck a softer line during a summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, offering $10 billion in loans and lines of credit and saying China only wanted to be friends.China claims a large swathe of the South China Sea, which straddles key shipping lanes and is potentially rich in energy resources.Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei are the other claimants to parts of the sea, and along...

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