DAY OF DEMOS AGAINST IRAQ WAR.PROTESTERS were last night preparing for further confrontation with police after thousands across Britain took part in a day of global resistance against a war in Iraq. Demonstrators in Birmingham, London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Bradford and Ireland turned out in force to speak out against war - and were joined by many more worldwide. In Britain, pensioner PENSIONER. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government. Angela Broome was arrested during a 200-strong demonstration outside a major military base in Northwood, north-west London. Police said she was held over a previous incident at the base and was later released without charge. Many of the protesters outside the Permanent Joint Headquarters The Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) is the British tri-service headquarters from where all overseas military operations are planned and controlled. It is situated at Northwood Headquarters. of the British Armed Forces said they would return tomorrow for a mass blockade aimed at closing the base, which is the command post for British rapid deployment forces. The weekend's activities have been organised by direct action groups Voices in the Wilderness UK, Active Resistance to the Roots of War and the d-10 Group. Similar protests took place in Beirut, San Francisco, Washington, Tokyo, Pakistan and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix last night warned Iraq that it must step up cooperation with his inspection teams if it wanted to avert the threat of war. On the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of crucial talks in Baghdad, Dr Blix said that he would be using his meeting to impress upon the regime the 'seriousness of the situation' they were now facing. He said that the Iraqis had still not made a full declaration of their nuclear, biological and chemical programmes. 'There has not been sufficient co-operation,' he warned. |
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