Across Greece, farmers' tractors have staged blockades on major highways.
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They also want immunity for those involved in road blockades.
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"Blockades and public damage must end," Miguel Osorio Chong said.
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But we must continue with our blockades and our marches.
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Currently, police blockades surround the city and protests are banned.
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She called farmers to hold blockades until at least the morning.
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Afterward, residents in the area set up blockades with burning cars.
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Islay residents have protested since mid-July with partial road blockades.
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Drivers are planning blockades and go-slows across France on Nov.
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Years of blockades, bombs and soaring inflation have crushed the economy.
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Mr. Chamorro warned that the blockades and protest marches would continue.
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Rail blockades have appeared in other provinces as well, including Quebec.
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At that point, locals set up more fiery blockades in the area.
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The blockades continued Tuesday, with burning vehicles obstructing road in the area.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Blockades and walkouts roiled Hong Kong this week.
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The blockades have crippled several key sectors of Latin America's biggest economy.
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Union blockades of petrol refineries and depots have caused widespread fuel shortages.
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Union members have set up blockades on some major highways across Mexico.
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Amidst blockades and aerial bombardments, an estimated 85033,000 Yemenis have contracted cholera.
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Some rail blockades have ended, but others remain, including near Belleville, Ontario.
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"This news and the blockades, send a terrible message to global investors."
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Watch "After a month of blockades in Mexico, teachers say they'll keep protesting"
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State-run Ecopetrol lost some $100 million earlier this year because of blockades.
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At the same time, conservatives are building blockades on Trump-style fiscal policy.
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This time some 34 lycées were shut, mostly due to blockades by pupils.
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Arguably there could be more robust blockades around crowded public events, Israeli-style.
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"Blockades, climbing buildings, making art for protests," said Ruckus Society trainer LJ Amsterdam.
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Trade blockades and murder by committee isn't the struggle people come to see.
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A glimpse of something is in the distance, hidden behind barriers and blockades.
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In kayaks and sailboats they practiced forming blockades, raising banners and rescue techniques.
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Some gas stations have run out of gas, reportedly thanks to the blockades.
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The Gaza portion has totally collapsed under Hamas mismanagement, Israeli blockades and overuse.
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS CANADIANS ARE RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE WITH THE RAIL BLOCKADES
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USING FORCE TO SETTLE RAIL BLOCKADES WOULD NOT BE HELPFUL - CANADA PM TRUDEAU
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Like sanctions, blockades are designed to slowly choke the recalcitrant nation to submission.
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Farmers have rebuffed Tsipras' offer of talks and are continuing blockades of highways.
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Blockades by Morales supporters have cut off fuel and food to some cities.
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I pondered how to construct impromptu blockades to delay or confuse an attacker.
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Police have increasingly fired heavy rounds of tear gas at protesters to clear blockades.
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By evening, blockades on roads outside the center of the capital had been lifted.
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But it was unclear if that would be enough to end the road blockades.
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The protesters said they would end the blockades at Marble Arch and Parliament Square.
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The group said there were about 330 blockades in 23 of 26 Brazilian states.
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The miner said blockades at its ELG Mine Complex in Mexico had been lifted.
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The minister walked away from his role Monday after the news of the blockades.
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The blockades were carried out by transport groups who joined with educators and students.
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Israeli and Egyptian blockades have brought the Gazan economy to the brink of collapse.
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Israeli and Egyptian blockades have brought the Gazan economy to the brink of collapse.
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Armed conflict, political disputes and local blockades have made production highly volatile since then.
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If this demand is met, the chiefs say they will call off the blockades.
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS THE ONUS IS NOW ON INDIGENOUS LEADERS TO END THE BLOCKADES
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS HIS GOVERNMENT IS ENGAGING AT ALL LEVELS TO SOLVE BLOCKADES QUICKLY
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Facing blockades and bombardments, over a million Yemenis are believed to have contracted cholera.
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The closures have mainly been down to blockades and other action by armed groups.
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Intense blockades by Morales supporters have cut off fuel and food to some cities.
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Clinic blockades also doubled from 2014 to 2015, and picketing outside abortion facilities quadrupled.
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Armed conflict, political disputes and local blockades have made production levels highly volatile since then.
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One video seen by Reuters showed police setting up blockades and dragging a demonstrator away.
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The local government has begun control measures including quarantine blockades and culling programs, it said.
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Blockades on Tuesday caused long lines of tanker trucks unable to transport fuels for hours.
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Consider Berlin blockades, Soviet missiles in Cuba, several global financial and economic crises, 9/11.
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But increased blockades and deadly airstrikes have made getting supplies into the country nearly impossible.
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS THERE IS NO QUESTION OF USING THE ARMY TO END THE BLOCKADES
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The blockades, in fact, have already been imposed five times in the past four months.
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Around 30 people have been killed, with blockades leaving cities low on food and fuel.
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On Wednesday, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce called for an "immediate end" to the blockades.
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Fuerabamba villager Edison Vargas said the community would continue the blockades while they remained in jail.
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The cuts will hit hardest in Gaza, destitute after a decade under Israeli and Egyptian blockades.
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Libya's oil production has been repeatedly disrupted by blockades and conflict over the past five years.
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Related: Surviving the Narco-Blockades of Mexico's Jalisco State Enforced disappearances have also become increasingly common.
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Getting aid to impoverished Africans is hard enough, what with blockades of bureaucracy and red tape.
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Madaya is a rebel-held city that has been choked off by government blockades and landmines.
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Years of war and blockades have taken all kinds of tolls on Gaza, the cuisine included.
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Vidalies added that action to clear the blockades at fuel depots could be continued if necessary.
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In another poll 70% said the law should be shelved in order to end the blockades.
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The unrest spread across the city of Culiacan, with gunmen setting up blockades of burning vehicles.
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Cartel gunmen reportedly used machine guns and sniper rifles and set up blockades of burning vehicles.
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For years he led non-violent protests against logging projects, including sit-ins and human blockades.
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Some have taken to chaining themselves to construction equipment and creating aerial blockades in the trees.
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Separately, in 93, it restricted federal judges' ability to prevent clinic blockades by anti-abortion demonstrators.
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On Tuesday, Perry said President Barack Obama had put up "bureaucratic blockades" to American energy creation.
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Together they organize and stage increasingly dangerous direct actions—from protests to highway blockades—in Ferguson.
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I've seen heavy trade ships idling outside blockades, fighters streaming in to try and break them.
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Abortion providers also reported a total of 21,715 clinic blockades in 85033 – the most ever reported.
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Worse still, many insurance companies throw up administrative blockades that prevent enrollees from receiving timely care.
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And with decimating your own people by means of barrel bombs, mass torture and food blockades.
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For Qatar Airways, airspace is even more restricted due to blockades from other Middle Eastern states.
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Because of new blockades, they'd need to walk uptown until they found an open cross street.
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Authoritarian governments have increasingly sought to use internet disruptions and blockades as weapons to crush dissent.
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Sanalla has campaigned against the blockades, touring the country to try to win over local groups.
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Then, driving by Emancipation Park, my dad noted the racks of police blockades setting up for tomorrow.
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Most detrimental, however, has been the Saudi-led coalition's ongoing blockades on critical port cities and airports.
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It's all the fault of the United States, of our sanctions, of the blockades of fuel oil.
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Most of its people cannot leave the 365-square-kilometre enclave because of Israeli and Egyptian blockades.
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Among its findings, the NAF said nationwide, the number of clinic blockades grew to 104 from 51.
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He is sought by judicial authorities in Tripoli for the blockades and attempts to export oil independently.
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Two days later the supreme court prosecutor threatened to investigate protest leaders; the blockades were quickly removed.
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Several associations and groups created on social networks have scheduled demonstrations and road blockades for Nov 17.
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A stretch of the smaller, coastal highway 200 also was blocked, although both blockades were later dismantled.
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"The plan to overcome unanimity blockades with a unanimous decision is absurd and obviously ineffective," he added.
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Mr. Sarkozy took some similar measures to those of Mr. Hollande, forcibly breaking the blockades at refineries.
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A persistence of recent fuel shortages, road blockades and strikes could crimp growth, the central bank said.
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He said "decades of blockades on our European path" had led to diminished spiritual and political morale.
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The number of clinic blockades had been decreasing in recent years, with just 5,402 reported in 2014.
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She explores the connection between the decline in clinic blockades and the rise in restrictive abortion laws.
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So have the blockades imposed by both Israel and Egypt since Hamas seized power 11 years ago.
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Bin Salman took huge international heat over his blockades of aid getting to Yemen late last year.
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Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Wednesday demanded Trudeau come up with a timetable to end the blockades.
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS INJUNCTIONS TO LIFT THE RAIL BLOCKADES MUST BE OBEYED, THE LAW MUST BE UPHELD
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CANADA'S TRUDEAU SAYS DISCUSSIONS TO END BLOCKADES HAVE NOT BEEN CONSTRUCTIVE, WILL STOP MAKING THE SAME OVERTURES
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Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory sits near Belleville, Ontario, where one of the major railway blockades is taking place.
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In Libya pipeline blockades by militia brigades have slashed the OPEC state's output by nearly 400,000 bpd.
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It said that "different violent groups" related to the blockades were "mainly to blame" for the violence.
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Residents here have destroyed campaign signs and set up blockades to prevent the government from delivering ballots.
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Particularly when the big telco rivals like AT&T are attempting to mount blockades to Fiber's expansion.
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It also said that striking workers had been picketing, had set up road blockades and damaged some equipment.
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The government said there were fewer blockades on major highways across the country on Saturday compared to Friday.
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Libya has lost some $126 billion in revenue due to blockades over the past five years, Sanalla said.
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In the week following the court's decision, protests and blockades were staged across all major cities in Bolivia.
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He showed reporters a video of a phone call including audio allegedly of Morales directing plans for blockades.
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The internet is actually full of annoying restrictions and blockades that can only be overcome with a VPN.
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"They fooled us," Manolis Paterakis, head of one of Crete's farmer blockades, said of the left-led government.
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The price spike has been met by protests as well as highway blockades and looting of gas stations.
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However, Libyan production remains vulnerable to the North African country's continuing political turmoil, and blockades by local groups.
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Those challenges are intimately felt in Gaza, whose economy has suffered from years of Israeli and Egyptian blockades.
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In addition to a three-and-a-half-year bombing campaign, Saudi Arabia has imposed economic sanctions and blockades.
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There are plenty of blockades between now and the connected-device future that's been so long on the horizon.
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The businesses around the tower, especially luxury brands, have been hard hit by the blockades necessitated by Trump's presence.
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Oilfield blockades tend to be solved by authorities quickly giving more money to guards or locals living close by.
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Some developed countries, the Chinese leader said, are taking protectionist measures that lead to trade conflicts and economic blockades.
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Jathran is sought by judicial authorities in Tripoli for blockades of oil terminals and attempts to export oil independently.
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Do you think the pharmaceutical industry could be influencing the government to put up blockades against medical marijuana research?
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He added that international naval blockades had almost totally eradicated offshore piracy at the former hotspot for maritime hijackings.
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But both sides seem keen to avoid more violence, and a negotiated dismantling of the blockades looks more likely.
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Alloush insisted the Syrian government must halt attacks on civilians and end blockades before the talks can go ahead.
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This month in Vancouver environmental groups gave free training on mass protests, blockades, and de-escalating confrontations with police.
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He added that international naval blockades had almost totally eradicated offshore piracy at the former hotspot for maritime hijackings.
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At the weekend they finally escaped the suffocating blockades under an evacuation agreement - but their ordeal was not over.
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Opponents are planning litigation, blockades and protests, said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
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Blockades along the main road to Quito International Airport shut down traffic, setting off rippling flight delays and cancellations.
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Irish, French and Spanish fishermen have all used such blockades over the years to extract government support on fuel costs.
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But in our universe, where Trump is president, we don't expect the Herbal Tea Party to build as many blockades.
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Police lifted some blockades at fuel depots over the weekend and would continue to do so on Monday, Valls said.
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Until now, they've been prevented from even seeing Felix due to crafty DFS blockades and a skillful level of shiftiness.
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Libya's oil infrastructure is also often targeted by fighting or blockades as rival groups seek to gain wealth or leverage.
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Some highway blockades were cleared early on Sunday, as police started to fine drivers who left trucks at road sides.
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Blockades on Highway 1806, just north of camp, were still in place as of late Monday, as the blizzard approached.
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In autumn 2014, blockades of oilfields and ports rapidly cut production after it had climbed to more than 800,0003 bpd.
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Blockades were set up by armed groups demanding salary payments or seeking to cut off a source of government revenues.
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As many as 12 million people in the country are near starvation because of blockades, according to human rights groups.
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The news of fuel shortages and blockades sent drivers rushing to petrol stations to fill their tanks as a precaution.
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Since late last week, three people have been killed as soldiers busted up protesters' blockades of rubble and burning tires.
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American ships have bolstered coalition naval blockades, which have choked Yemen's access to food, fuel and life-saving medical supplies.
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N. will have no choice but to temporarily discontinue service in key corridors unless the blockades come to an end.
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More recently disgraced Conservative leader Andrew Scheer invoked the phrase in his calls for police action to end rail blockades.
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On Friday, Trudeau had demanded aboriginal groups lift the rail blockades amid railroad layoffs and shortages of goods like propane.
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The blockades ensued from demonstrations by protesters who are opposed to the construction of the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address legislators later on Tuesday about the disruption caused by the blockades, his office said.
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Oil and gas company Total said blockades were going on at its Normandie, Donges, Grandpuits, La Mede and Peyzin refineries.
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There are reports of blockades in other places in Brazil, such as in Minas Gerais, the country's top coffee producing state.
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But workers' unions Friday responded with a call to step up rallies and blockades, demanding a complete withdrawal of the bill.
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Protesters across the oil-rich South American nation of 30 million set up road blockades "against the dictatorship" on Tuesday afternoon.
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Some 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts.
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The bill followed blockades this month of the BR-163 highway, which runs next to the 1.3 million-hectare national forest.
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Before Saturday's negotiations, Rojas had said Fuerabamba would not end the blockades or talk with government until the lawyers were freed.
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Tribespeople have staged protests in the past, and have set up road blockades in a bid to stop some mega-projects.
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Hamas dismissed the new allegations as a bid by Israel, which along with neighboring Egypt blockades Gaza, to control the enclave.
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In addition to the airstrikes, Saudi Arabia has imposed economic sanctions and blockades on Yemen, contributing to the deepening humanitarian crisis.
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There are absolutely loads of VPN providers out there that can help you boost your online security and bypass content blockades.
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The blockades affected at least 143,500 rail passengers, according to Via Rail Canada, and 200 freight trains were unable to travel.
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So far there have been no mass encampments on the Nebraska prairie, no tense standoffs with the police, no highway blockades.
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Two massive concrete blockades dotted with "No Trespassing" signs and a massive "STOP" sign loom at the end of the road.
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CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU TO ADDRESS LEGISLATORS ABOUT RAIL BLOCKADES AT 11 AM ET (1600 GMT) ON TUESDAY - OFFICIAL STATEMENT
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The summit yielded a commitment to shore up Libya's ramshackle truce arrangement but the gathering was overshadowed by Haftar's oil blockades.
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Superior Propane, Canada's largest provider of propane, forecast critical supply shortages would start in the coming days unless the blockades ended.
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Simonoff, however, says they were not using either's API, and only using public data anyway, and that the blockades are effectively meaningless.
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The government needs to have ultimate oversight in the use of nuclear, diplomatic, or cyber blockades when nation-states are involved. Gen.
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Save the Children pointed to blockades implemented by a Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country as a reason for widespread starvation.
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Radical members, especially those disappointed by Barack Obama's presidency, argue for sticking to "direct action" such as blockades of bridges and roads.
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They have been hemmed in by Israeli and Egyptian blockades since 22013, when Hamas, a militant Islamist group, took control of Gaza.
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Police removed metal barriers and other blockades from some thoroughfares in a bid to clear them ahead of businesses reopening on Tuesday.
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Tribes people have staged protests in the past, and have set up road blockades in a bid to stop some mega-projects.
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The frozen blockades -- and a recent onslaught of rain -- caused a backlog of water, flooding parts of Soda Springs, the affiliate said.
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They are using fishing boats, surveillance ships, and navy destroyers to set up blockades around other countries' islands and defend their own.
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Daring blockade runners usually made it through Union naval blockades meant to prevent them from bringing vital war goods to Southern ports.
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Truckers maintained blockades set up on Tuesday in a bid to strangle deliveries in and out of fuel and food distribution depots.
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But the beauty of the internet is that it can soar above the fortified walls and naval blockades that hem Gaza in.
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He said Tuesday that Qatar had found ways to get around land blockades by importing and exporting more via sea and air.
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NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said he had warned the head of the eastern government, Abdullah al-Thinni, against any new port blockades.
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"We respect the Libyan National Army General Command for its responsible opposition to port blockades," Sanalla wrote, according to the NOC statement.
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"Citizens who go through the appropriate, legal process of ensuring their own personal protection should not face unnecessary government blockades," he continued.
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Both Israel and Egypt imposed air, land and sea blockades on the territory in 2007 after Hamas won local elections in 2006.
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In June, a clash between police and teachers at one of the blockades in Oaxaca left eight protesters dead and dozens wounded.
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A spokesman for Booz Allen said the firm's work with the Saudis did not include training on blockades or electronic warfare equipment.
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In some instances, clashes have broken out with security personnel and demonstrators, who have lit fires, damaged buildings, and caused street blockades.
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Local media reported that road blockades in other regions had also been lifted as part of a pause in anti-government demonstrations.
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In Libya, militia pipeline blockades closed three oilfields and forced state-run National Oil Corp to declare force majeure at several sites.
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Besides checkpoints and minefields, the regime and its allies employ brutal blockades that prevent food or water from reaching the isolated towns.
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This "safe" path avoided Imperial blockades by skirting close to the Maw, a dangerous cluster of black holes situated close to the planet.
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Airstrikes, landmines, ragtag militias who use child soldiers, and widespread blockades of food and aid have made this the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Residents have been hemmed in due to police blockades and road closures as officials try to get a handle on the massive blaze.
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"This is a media campaign in order to justify actions aimed at clearing the blockades," said David Estrada, a teachers' leader from Oaxaca.
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Neither Khashoggi's death nor the humanitarian misery of the Saudi-led bombardment and blockades in Yemen seem to have caused any second guessing.
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Consumer prices could be further fanned by a double digit gasoline price hike this month that has spurred protests, looting and road blockades.
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According to an agreement reached last week, blockades were to be lifted at certain hours each day to keep vehicles from queuing up.
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"There are no more blockades along the roads of Santa Fe," said Guillermo Wade, manager of the Chamber of Port and Maritime Activity.
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Though most of the protest remained peaceful, some demonstrators pelted the container blockades with rocks and acted violently toward at least five reporters.
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But Mexican security forces were quickly overwhelmed by cartel soldiers, who attacked with heavy weapons and set up road blockades, using burning vehicles.
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On a bridge overlooking the highway demonstration site, drivers of trucks halted by blockades erected by city authorities complained about cargo delivery delays.
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On the first day of classes, the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus sent in the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationist blockades.
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In recent years, China has unilaterally begun building artificial island building, initiating blockades and setting up offensive weaponry such as missile deployment systems.
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Asked if those blockades had significantly dulled the expected strength of the economy's rebound this quarter, 13 of 19 economists said it had.
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Iran&aposs naval capabilities are oriented toward blockades, mining and interdiction operations to control the seaborne movement of oil off their southern coast.
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Similar blockades will be put in place on the streets leading to the Coney Island Boardwalk as well as on the promenade itself.
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One of the most effective blockades in history was the British Royal Navy blockade of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic war.
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Authorities have transported some 1,400 tonnes of food by plane in less than a week due to blockades, the government said on Friday.
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Sharara has been hit by repeated shutdowns or partial shutdowns this year, caused by blockades imposed by armed groups, security problems and protests.
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The news of fuel shortages and blockades over the past days sent drivers rushing to petrol stations to fill their tanks as a precaution.
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The British Columbia Supreme Court granted an injunction in December against blockades preventing access for workers, after protests a year ago resulted in arrests.
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Oil output in OPEC member Libya has been repeatedly disrupted by factional conflict and blockades since the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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They said they set up two blockades on Highway 1806 and another on county road 134 to protect the camp from militarized law enforcement.
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"History has long proved and will continue to prove that sanctions and blockades will not prevent a countrys technology and economic development," he said.
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President Emmanuel Macron has also defended the rising price of fuel at the pumps, which have prompted activists to plan protest blockades on Nov.
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Cabs formed blockades at the entrance to motorways as other protesters said they would drive slowly through the capital all day, creating massive jams.
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Brent futures also eased, but losses were capped as pipeline blockades in Libya slashed the OPEC country's production by nearly 400,000 barrels per day.
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Del Solar said the government was willing to discuss the community's demands in detail with MMG and outside mediators once the blockades were lifted.
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On the outskirts of the town this past week, young men with bandannas covering their faces patrolled blockades, stopping and searching cars at random.
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Picketing and clinic blockades is inherently limited in its success, and for the movement it is as much about staying visible as stopping abortions.
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"History has long proved and will continue to prove that sanctions and blockades will not prevent a country's technology and economic development," he said.
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Despite legal blockades, officials in Pyongyang somehow manages to smuggle in parts for nuclear weapons and missiles, as well as luxury Mercedes Benz automobiles.
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Federal highway police did not have an immediate comment on the extent of the blockades nor how they were disrupting traffic around the country.
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"As long as we are not successful ... we will remain on the blockades," the head of France's young farmers group JA, Jeremy Decerle, said.
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Mr. Guerrero, the security consultant, predicted that further pressure in the Red Triangle might eventually set off a social uprising, including strikes and blockades.
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Output has been hit by attacks on oil facilities and blockades, though last year it partially recovered to around one million barrels per day.
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The British Columbia Supreme Court granted an injunction last week against blockades preventing access for workers, after protests a year ago resulted in arrests.
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The rail blockades and growing significance of the protests have now made that impossible, but his government has struggled to present a concrete plan.
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Libya's oil production has been repeatedly disrupted in recent years by conflict and blockades, but is currently relatively stable at about 1.25 million bpd.
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From the campuses, protesters -- many of whom were not actually students at those schools -- launched wildcat demonstrations and blockades of neighboring roads and tunnels.
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The battle for Hodeidah could drag on, creating more suffering for civilians, who have endured air strikes, port blockades, hunger and a cholera epidemic.
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Guzman said he expected some recovery of economic activity in the second quarter of 2019 despite fuel shortages, road blockades and strikes crimping growth.
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The HDP said police raided Buluttekin's home early on Friday and the party shared images on Twitter showing blockades around the Sur municipality building.
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Jathran led blockades of the ports starting in 2013 saying he was trying to prevent corruption in oil sales, though others have disputed his motives.
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" Protesters have maintained the blockades for weeks to pressure Ortega, who has rejected demands for early elections and calls those seeking his exit "coup mongers.
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Oil production has been hit by attacks on oil facilities and blockades, though last year it partially recovered to around one million barrels per day.
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Jathran's brigades led blockades of the ports starting in 2013, saying he was trying to prevent corruption in oil sales, though others disputed his motives.
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The battle for Hodeidah could drag on, creating more suffering for civilians who have already endured air strikes, port blockades, hunger and a cholera epidemic.
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Disputes are most commonly settled not in parliamentary debate or at the ballot box, but through paralysing hartals—strikes-cum-blockades enforced by partisan thugs.
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"Good ideas are worth nothing if they fail because of structural blockades," VW human resources chief Karlheinz Blessing said in an interview published on Thursday.
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Oil output in OPEC member Libya has been repeatedly disrupted by factional conflict and blockades since the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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Vinci Autoroute, France's largest toll-road operator, has seen dozens of road blockades and forced openings of barriers since the protests erupted two weeks ago.
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Ilahi also said he did not expect political blockades in 2018 because most of the "heavy structural measures" required under the programme were already adopted.
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"The union also promoted blockades in different access points where direct employees of Ecopetrol and contractors who work at the field travel," the company added.
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Sheikh Mohammed said that advancing Palestinian unity efforts and easing the blockades should not be "forgotten about" because of war unfolding across the Middle East.
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Bulgaria's transport minister Ivailo Moskovski visited the border area on Friday, asking farmers to provide a clear timetable for the blockades to avoid escalating tensions.
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It evolved from nationwide road blockades into a series of often-violent demonstrations that pitted rowdy protesters with police and ravaged Paris and other cities.
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Production has been repeatedly disrupted in recent years by stoppages and port blockades usually linked to demands for salary payments or funds for local development.
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Over the next two days, threatening banners from the rival Los Zetas and blockades appeared across the region, and locals reported shootouts in their neighborhoods.
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The group's campaign has included two extended round-the-clock blockades of a road leading to the construction site, one of which lasted three months.
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Oil output has been hit by attacks on oil facilities and blockades, though last year it partially recovered to around one million barrels per day.
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Daily highway blockades have snarled transportation across the country, as students and farmers erect makeshift barricades to damage the economy and wear down the government.
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Authorities say those impacted by the blockades have run out of patience, and the government is threatening to use force again to clear the roads.
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VICE News reports from the blockades to learn if the recent violence and the threat of eviction will force the teachers to end their protests.
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They have stepped up airstrikes, hitting marketplaces and tent camps, as civilians trapped behind blockades continue to die for lack of food and medical care.
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Srinagar's senior superintendent of police Haseeb Mughal told Reuters that road blockades across the valley had been imposed to prevent the spread of the virus.
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This year's meeting comes at a period of considerable social unrest in Buenos Aires, where protests and street blockades have become a near daily occurrence.
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Those who left faced police blockades and could access their homes only by walking across the city's grand bridges, which were built in another era.
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Both cities have been all but locked down since public transport was banned last week and traffic blockades were set up to limit people's movement.
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A massive $20 billion-Alberta oil sands project has been cancelled, infuriating Canadian conservative politicians, who are blaming Justin Trudeau and Indigenous-led rail blockades.
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Both cities have been all but locked down since public transport was banned last week and traffic blockades were set up to limit people's movement.
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Wet'suwet'en supporters pointed out that CN had already announced some 1,600 layoffs last November, and questioned whether the recent announcement was really connected to blockades.
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Trudeau is due to speak after holding a meeting on the blockades with his top cabinet ministers, and after talking to provincial premiers on Thursday.
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Canada's biggest railway said the shut down, which would continue until the blockades end, may lead to temporary layoffs within its Eastern Canadian operational staff.
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The country's oil production has been repeatedly disrupted in recent years by conflict and blockades but is currently relatively stable at about 1.25 million bpd.
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"[The] worst case scenario would be just blockades, vehicles parked up because we don't know what's going on," said David Zaccheo, operations director at Alcaline.
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Police and work crews removed metal barriers and other blockades from some thoroughfares in a bid to clear them ahead of businesses reopening on Tuesday.
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Blockades at fuel depots last week caused nationwide gasoline shortages, but the situation has eased somewhat since the government ordered police to clear out protesting workers.
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It said it was trying to increase supplies at gas stations by freeing tankers that had been trapped in blockades and increasing the number of trucks.
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The coalition has used brutal tactics, including what critics say are indiscriminate and disproportionate bombings and blockades that prevent food and assistance from reaching desperate civilians.
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The oil industry in OPEC member Libya has staged a partial recovery after being hit by blockades and armed conflict following an uprising seven years ago.
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Libya's oil production, which was crippled by conflict and blockades after 2013, has partially recovered to more than one million barrels per day (bpd) last year.
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Since 2011, NOC has had to navigate conflict, blockades and a political split between eastern and western-based factions as it tries to revive its operations.
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While security forces cleared blockades in the capital, there were still highways obstructed around La Ceiba and other areas outside major cities, a police spokesman said.
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Because of the remaining blockades: • Canadian National Railway (CN) on Thursday said it's started to progressively shut down its eastern freight network, essentially east of Toronto.
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As Libya's revenue fell due to production disruptions and lower oil prices, demands for salaries, local development and jobs that feed into blockades became more widespread.
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Philippe also said police were ready to intervene to prevent any blockades of French oil refineries, where unions have voted for a four-day nationwide strike.
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And with all the traffic and security blockades, New Yorkers and tourists too may feel no one can get off the island during this madhouse week.
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This gets a bit trickier when you consider the Indigenous-led blockades that have since popped up on rail lines, ports, and bridges across the country.
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The blockades pose a delicate challenge for Trudeau, who says one of his main priorities is to improve relations with Canada's marginalized and impoverished indigenous population.
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The highway blockades and fuel shortages have halted industries from automaking to sugarcane crushing, hammering exports of everything from beef and soybeans to coffee and cars.
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Most arrived in February when the Venezuelan opposition tried and failed to break Maduro's grip on the military by forcing U.S. humanitarian aid through border blockades.
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Looking ahead, the Asian country could conceivably become America's number one export market—provided Trump can hash out a better trade deal without inciting retaliatory trade blockades.
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The main port in Yemen has been bombed out, and the lengthy permit process required to get food through maritime blockades means that it is often spoiled.
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On Thursday, with much of the nation paralyzed by demonstrations, strikes and blockades, a team from the Organization of American States began an audit of election records.
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That makes Berlin-style blockades much harder to envisage – but it also means nations lack the military or other resources to get around them if they happen.
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On Friday, Mexico's Secretary of the Interior promised action against the blockades in Oaxaca, saying dialogue with teachers' unions could not continue without respect for citizens' rights.
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The player wins the game by ensuring that bridges are built or blockades are mined, leading the majority of the team to the end of the stage.
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Oil output in Libya has been repeatedly hampered by protests and armed blockades in recent years, as local groups across the country press financial and other demands.
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Using mops, brooms and a series of blockades, the girls were able to coax the intruder out of the bathroom, and sent it flying down the stairs.
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PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - France has started using its strategic oil reserves to counter union blockades of its refineries, the French oil industry federation said on Wednesday.
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Over the next 50 years protest politics would no longer center on mass marches, but shift to the active disruption of sit-ins, boycotts, and human blockades.
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Last summer, with production languishing below 250,000 bpd, Sanalla began a campaign against the blockades, criss-crossing Libya's huge land mass in an eight-seat propeller plane.
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The company resumed construction of the dam last fall, avoiding potential blockades by moving to the other side of the river, Ms. Cáceres said at the time.
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Later, military demonstrations, partial blockades and more anti-missile forces at home and on the Korean peninsula, could help to bring them around at the bargaining table.
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The government declared the curfew on Friday, expanding powers for the army and police to detain people and break up blockades of roads, bridges and public buildings.
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As is the modern way, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was buttressed by blockades of sand-filled sanitation trucks, patrolled by sniffer dogs and guarded by police.
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Trudeau has stated that the blockades must end and the rule of law must be followed, but his critics charge he's not done enough, despite multiple arrests.
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It's under this condition that the chiefs, who oppose pipeline construction on their ancestral lands, have said they will advise cross-country rail blockades to stand down.
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Several protesters supporting the First Nations against the natural gas pipeline have caused blockades on rail tracks since Thursday forcing train cancellations in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
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Of the 500 miles, the administration has so far built only 66 miles of replacement barriers in areas that previously had either battered fencing or vehicle blockades.
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After spending days calling for talks and making clear he didn't want police to dismantle the blockades by force, Trudeau's tone hardened during a Friday press conference.
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"We are going to continue until she's gone," said Lucio Kesper, 65, referring to Añez, while manning one of the blockades in the outskirts of the city.
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Senate Democrats eliminated the filibuster in 2013 for lower federal court judges and executive branch appointments, after years of Republican blockades of qualified nominees for those jobs.
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Anti-government protesters lifted road blockades - including one at a natural gas plant where nine people were killed in clashes this week - ahead of the weekend's talks.
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The move was greeted with outrage, with protesters descending on the forest, setting up an encampment and forming human blockades to try and stop the heavy machinery.
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Saudi has also instituted various blockades including one in November on land, air and sea ports that restricted most humanitarian aid and goods coming into the country.
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Continued strong political polarization could again lead to widespread violence and blockades, especially near the time of parliamentary elections, which will be held no later than January 203.
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Bulgaria has called on the European Commission to impose sanctions against Greece, saying that the blockades violate European Union principles on the free movement of goods and people.
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Earlier this week, they told de Mistura that before negotiations the Syrian government must stop bombing civilian areas, release detainees and lift blockades imposed on opposition-held areas.
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Libya's oil production recovered last year to just over 1 million bpd and has been mostly stable, though it remains vulnerable to shutdowns and blockades at oil facilities.
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Protesters suspended the blockades, which began on July 3, after Temer sent the bill to Congress, according to a statement from the Sociedade Civil Organizada group on Friday.
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On Thursday, the World Health Organization issued a statement requesting that Saudi Arabia discontinue its blockades in Yemen to allow food and medical supplies in to the country.
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The model is Napoleon's Continental System aimed at the United Kingdom in the early 19th century or Anglo-German submarine warfare and naval blockades during World War Two.
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Amid splits in the opposition, civic groups have come to the fore, with strikes and road blockades in cities tapping into anger over Morales' near 14-year rule.
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The country and its allies back the internationally recognized Yemeni government and has imposed blockades on the parts of the country several times, hampering the delivery of aid.
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About 500 migrants on the Mexican side of the border overwhelmed police blockades near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Sunday, two journalists in Tijuana told CNN.
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There is also broad support for applying economic and trade pressure on China toward that effort, but most oppose using military force such as air strikes or blockades.
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Though Saudi-backed forces have used blockades to keep humanitarian aid from reaching areas controlled by the Houthis, some aid groups have still managed to work in country.
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Recently, the construction blockades were removed at the pedestrian island on Broadway between 45th and 453th streets, and now visitors can once again walk over the sonorous grate.
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At one point Mr. Ruffalo attempted to lead the crowd to another street corner where he said counterprotesters were assembled, but confronted with security blockades, most went home.
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"Weeks of federal indecision on the regulatory approval process and inaction in the face of illegal blockades have created more uncertainty for investors looking at Canada," said Kenney.
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As a direct result of the war, and the coalition's blockades and bombing runs in particular, life for millions of Yemenis has become a daily struggle for survival.
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Unrest by coca growers in key cultivation zones worsened and blockades were erected around key cities such as Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, and Bolivia's de facto capital La Paz.
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Late this week, police officers and soldiers were deployed in large numbers to clear blockades set up by protesters in the capital and the north of the country.
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Some startups offering services in deep linking — tools that connect content between different apps — are hitting blockades as Google (and potentially Apple) begin to offer the very same services.
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The protests come as business groups say members have suffered millions of dollars of losses due to months of blockades by dissident teachers throughout the country, especially in Oaxaca.
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Warring parties have deliberately decreased access to food, most notably Saudi Arabia, which has established aerial and naval blockades against a country that imports 90 percent of its food.
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One woman, who worked in a shop at the hotel, said she was ordered to report to work on Monday, only to find police blockades at nearly every entrance.
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The CGT and fellow hard-left union FO have called on striking workers to step up blockades of refineries and fuel depots so companies are faced with supply shortages.
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The price spike, known locally as a "gasolinazo," has led to angry protests across the country over the past couple weeks, including highway blockades and looting of gas stations.
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Chaos ensued, but it was a magical kind of chaos as I tried to contain the problem with hastily constructed fence blockades and the generous application of tranquilizer darts.
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Production at the southwestern Sharara field, which can pump up to 280,000 bpd, or more than a quarter of the country's total output, is a frequent target of blockades.
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Five people died during last week's strike as National Guard troops seeking to dismantle blockades fired tear gas and rubber bullets at masked youths hurling stones and Molotov cocktails.
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Opposition leaders told de Mistura the government must take goodwill steps before any negotiations, by halting bombardments of civilian areas, lifting blockades of rebel-held territory and releasing detainees.
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The Obama administration has made incremental moves to loosen certain economic blockades, making it a little easier for Americans to visit and for money to pass between the countries.
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But he was released without charges on Friday and told Reuters he was open to talking with the government about ending the road blockades "soon," potentially within a week.
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The battle for Hodeidah, launched six days ago, could drag on, inflicting more suffering for civilians who have already endured air strikes, port blockades, hunger and a cholera epidemic.
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The NOC had said blockades would likely oblige it to declare force majeure at two other terminals, Hariga and Zueitina, on Sunday, but it has yet to do so.
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NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla, who has campaigned to end blockades, restated a plea to local factions not to disrupt oil supplies, which represent Libya's only significant source of income.
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"Along with our American colleagues but above all our colleagues in the region, we must try to find solutions, especially lifting the sea and air blockades," Gabriel told reporters.
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Abcam said it expected more truckers to take part in the blockades on Tuesday than the previous day, when they said some 200,000 drivers took part in 19 states.
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And the situation could still get worse, doctors and aid officials warned, pointing to a health care system pushed to the brink by years of war and crippling blockades.
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Libya used to pump up to 1.6 million bpd under Gaddafi's rule, but that plunged to as low as 90,000 in 2013 due to strife and blockades at fields.
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The group highlights a lack of proportionality in the use of blockades, which "have had widespread and devastating effects on the civilian population," and in direct attacks on civilians.
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These efforts have been most effective when tenants have constructed multiracial coalitions and have relied on tactics from rent strikes to eviction blockades to cooperative housing to strategic litigation.
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Some in British Columbia have pledged to keep fighting expansion of Trans Mountain, even with blockades and protests, saying ownership makes no difference to the risk of oil leaks.
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But Maduro's forces have attempted to stop the convoy from reaching its destination, and some citizens have taken to the streets to help the lawmakers pass through the blockades.
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The rebels say they will not negotiate until the other side shows good will by halting the bombardment of civilian areas, lifting blockades of population centers, and freeing detainees.
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With new rail blockades going up at the same time as other lines reopen, it's not clear where this is all headed—or if it's heading anywhere anytime soon.
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The train blockades arrive during a wave of labor strikes that has spread across the country, which some experts argue originated out of the former union strongholds of Appalachia.
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Blockades prevented my taxi from getting all the way to my hotel, and, walking the remainder of the route, I found that the sidewalk had been freshly dug up.
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Ratcliffe and I are introducing," Cruz continued, "gives Congress the opportunity to free consumers and small businesses from the CFPB's regulatory blockades and financial activism, which stunt economic growth.
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The police directed attendees around the corners of blockades, sometimes in single file, forcing some ticketed attendees to wait nearly an hour in line to trickle past the protests.
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"We have a real problem as some stores have been closed for a week now because of the blockades," said Jacques Creyssel, head of the French Retail Federation (FCD).
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As Trump protesters reached the other Trump building on 5th Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, the police were waiting with systemic blockades, preventing protesters from entering the streets.
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Under the decree, all local authorities must submit to the authority of the army and national police, which are authorized to break up blockades of roads, bridges and public buildings.
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After police intervention in recent days to lift blockades at refineries and fuel distribution depots, Valls said 20-30 percent of fuel stations were dry or short of certain fuels.
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The Mexican government has started to airlift food supplies to parts of the southern state of Oaxaca that it says are suffering shortages because of road blockades by striking teachers.
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Due to the closure of the airport in the capital city of Sanaa; Saudi-led coalition border blockades; and repeated bombings of farms, wells, and agriculture, food supplies have dwindled.
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That is its highest level since mid-2013 when a wave of blockades and protests by armed groups started after Libya descended into conflict following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
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The government has declared two states of emergencies in response to the road blockades, suspending the right to hold public gatherings and authorizing police and the military to restore order.
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In the past, Krenak protesters have built blockades all along the Vale do Rio Doce railroad line, which runs near their village, in attempts to stop future iron ore shipments.
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Four days later, the number of blockades had fallen below ten (or so the government claimed) and the minister met union leaders again, offering a dialogue with the education ministry.
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Operations at Sharara, which is crucial to a partial revival of Libya's oil output, have been repeatedly disrupted this year due to blockades by armed groups, protests and security problems.
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The CNTE teachers union - a dissident breakaway group from the biggest union, the SNTE - has staged months of protests and blockades to pressure Lopez Obrador to dump the 2013 reform.
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The government imposed a military-enforced curfew on Friday that expanded powers for the army and police to detain people and break up blockades of roads, bridges and public buildings.
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Many parts of the country are lifting their lockdowns, removing road blockades and allowing people to travel more freely — as long as they have documented proof that they are healthy.
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Galindo told Radio Fórmula the police had begun evicting protesting teachers from the highway peacefully early on Sunday morning within a wider major operation to remove blockades across the state.
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UNRWA and the Palestinians have warned that cuts could exacerbate hardship in Gaza, an enclave that has been under Israeli and Egypt blockades designed to isolate its Islamist Hamas rulers.
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Freight shutdown will restrict supplies of food and other materials, business group warns CN and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce have called on the government to remove the rail blockades.
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Canada's public safety minister said that federal police have offered to move away from Wet'suwet'en territory in hopes that blockades come down, but that offer comes with a significant condition.
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Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and several additional cabinet ministers also discussed the subsequent rail blockades by Wet'suwet'en supporters that are currently hamstringing the majority of Canada's train routes.
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Demonstrators have burned down the headquarters of local election offices, set up blockades, and paraded a mayor barefoot through the streets after cutting her hair and showering her in paint.
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Citing security concerns, Israel, which withdrew troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, blockades the coastal territory, maintaining tight restrictions on the movement of Palestinians and goods across the frontier.
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Not since World War I, when the combination of wartime privation, natural disaster, and naval blockades led to the Great Famine of 1915-1918 have so many faced such hunger.
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A series of crippling Saudi-led blockades and active warfronts have also exacerbated the humanitarian crisis, with aid workers regularly struggling to reach some of the country's most afflicted civilian populations.
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A toll road operator in Mato Grosso said blockades had expanded overnight to four points along the key BR-163 highway, which carries grains to northern and southern ports for export.
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Supporters poured onto the streets, bringing cities to a halt with blockades of burning tyres and shutting down the motorway between Islamabad, the capital, and Lahore, the country's second-biggest city.
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UNRWA and the Palestinians have warned that the cuts could exacerbate hardship in Gaza, an enclave that has been under Israeli and Egypt blockades designed to isolate its Islamist Hamas rulers.
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After police intervention in recent days to lift blockades at refineries and depots, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said 20-30 percent of fuel stations were dry or short of certain fuels.
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About 500 migrants on the Mexican side of the border overwhelmed police blockades near the San Ysidro Port of Entry Sunday afternoon, two journalists at the scene in Tijuana told CNN.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian airports canceled almost all flights on Wednesday as a national strike over pay and working conditions halted activity at ports, hit public transport and led to factory blockades.
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Sharara was producing more than 200,000 bpd before its operations were halted by pipeline blockades twice in the past two months, causing national output to drop to less than 500,000 bpd.
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Isolated by government blockades for four years and bombarded relentlessly, Daraya stood out as a place where the main rebel groups remained under local control and not affiliated with extremist factions.
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What do you say to people who think that rallying or marching is too passive or too gradual and that more direct action like sit-ins or street blockades is necessary?
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The website featured maps to organize blockades of intersections arranged around various themes — like feminism, gay rights, racial justice, climate change, immigrant rights, antiwar, and labor — and tips for legal observers.
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DisruptJ28503: A group of D.C. organizers have planned a week of events aimed to shut down the inauguration and "paralyze the city itself" through blockades and marches, according to its website.
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The most disruptive may well be a series of early morning blockades planned for security checkpoints along the inaugural perimeter, through which all those attending the ceremony will have to pass.
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The Bank of Canada's next interest rate decision is on Wednesday, and market expectations of a cut have jumped as the economy faces challenges from a coronavirus outbreak and rail blockades.
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By Thursday afternoon, Mr. Moreno announced a state of emergency, permitting Ecuador's armed forces to dismantle the makeshift blockades, which were formed by buses, vans and taxis parked across the roads.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was working to end rail blockades led by indigenous protesters as farmers and businesses warned of mounting economic damage after two weeks of barricades.
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Almost all of Libya's crude export capacity is now under force majeure - a waiver on contractual obligations - after pipeline blockades in the east and west of the country hindered oil production.
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Passage of the bill came as anti-government demonstrators lifted road blockades so leaders of social groups could hold talks with interim President Jeanine Anez aimed at ending weeks of unrest.
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Hidden behind a maze of wooden blockades and yellow tape, a neglected transportation hub in northern Manhattan is gearing up for a reopening — or so people have been led to believe.
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The country's business chambers said the combination of highway, port and terminal blockades and looting this week forced many stores and businesses to close and threatened supplies of basic goods and fuel.
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And so it's been the farmers here who have embraced a role closest to something of a defensive force, using their agricultural equipment to create blockades between protesters and Spain's national police.
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Valls said the government would not withdraw the law and would break up refinery blockades, saying there could be some tweaks to the reforms but not on any of its key planks.
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More than 8,670 people have been killed and about 50,000 injured since the Saudi intervention, according to the United Nations, and blockades and fighting have left 20 million in need of aid.
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In July, road blockades and a sustained gunbattle between more than 1,000 heavily armed marines and gang members left eight dead in Tlahuac, a poor neighborhood on the city&aposs southern outskirts.
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Public Security Minister Raul Jungmann said at a Friday night news conference that there were over 13 blockades on roadways across Brazil, but that was half of those registered 24 hours before.
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Police removed blockades at some of the major incineration and rubbish collection depots around the capital but to little effect because workers inside the premises subsequently walked off work, the CGT said.
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Bulgarian authorities have called on the European Commission to impose sanctions against Greece, saying the blockades staged by Greek farmers are violating EU principles on the free movement of people and goods.
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Insect Ark, it seems, come from the same school of thought, constructing a series of self-imposed blockades, hurdles and logistical traps that would make most artists run screaming into the night.
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As unarmed civilians attempt to bring needed food and medicine into the country, the Maduro government responded with blockades of international bridges and violence, beginning the killing that now headlines American news.
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As America closes coal plants, and the Environmental Protection Agency runs wild with regulatory blockades, China and India are opening coal plants at the rate of five to every one we close.
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"It pretty much shut down an entire region of Michoacan, the hijacking of trailers and buses and burning them to create blockades and to prevent ... the ability of security forces to travel."
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However, during the weekend protest police and security forces set up blockades which barred access to the section of the DRC's second largest city, Lubumbashi, where the rally was to be held.
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Revel's maze of roads and race-related blockades, however, made it impossible for us to find our way back to the finish to see Matthews squeeze out Sagan and win the stage.
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Even the police, flown in from as far as St. John's, Newfoundland, are friendly, waving cars through their blockades past the imposing Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu hotel, where the leaders will meet.
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Ecuadoreans posted videos on social media of burning road blockades as the 11th day of unrest over cuts to fuel subsidies threatened to derail the first talks aimed at re-establishing peace.
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The Bank of Canada's next interest rate decision is on March 4 and market expectations of a cut have jumped as the economy faces challenges from rail blockades and a coronavirus outbreak.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on Indigenous leaders not to stand in the way of reconciliation with Canada by continuing blockades that have halted rail networks across the country for two weeks.
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"The U.S. for the past 70 years has supported aggression, blockades, settlements and occupation," said Jan Fermon, the secretary general of the International Organization of Democratic Lawyers, which is based in Brussels.
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Despite the blockades at some oil depots hampering road deliveries, France's oil pipeline network allows it to move refined products from the refining hubs to major urban centers, keeping the market supplied.
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Garneau said Ottawa felt the way to end the blockades was "through dialog and seeking to build consensus" with the aboriginal groups, many of whom complain they are marginalized and economically deprived.
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With blockades affecting everything from gas distribution terminals, seaports and highways to shopping centers and gas stations, the Communications and Transport Department announced it would cancel permits for any truckers who block roads.
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According to Nastimir Ananiev, chairman of the parliament's transport committee, about 40,000 Bulgarians have canceled their holidays in Greece and around 30,000 Greek citizens have canceled trips to Bulgaria because of the blockades.
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Villagers have demanded that their lawyers be freed before talking with the government about lifting their blockades of two roads that have cut off access to the Las Bambas mine, halting its exports.
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Oil industry workers were on strike for a third day on Friday at four of France's seven refineries and unions urged employees to step up blockades to force the plants to halt production.
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"There are reports that road blockades have been lifted in some places but we don't know if the units started receiving raw materials to resume crushing," an Abiove representative told Reuters on Tuesday.
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The group said it was more important to stop indiscriminate attacks and to lift the blockades on eastern Aleppo and other besieged areas that prevent the free movement of food, medicine and people.
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The discussion comes following tensions at the border Sunday, when about 500 migrants overwhelmed police blockades on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro port of entry, two journalists in Tijuana told CNN.
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Students unhappy about changes in entry-selection criteria have mounted blockades and sit-ins at universities in several cities, while CGT union members have led industrial action at rubbish incineration site in Paris.
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In any military clash, such attacks would amount to a dramatic change in the nature of war, inflicting economic harm and disrupting civilian life far from the conflict without bullets, bombs or blockades.
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If anything, the historical record demonstrates that great powers can inflict enormous punishment on their adversaries — with blockades, sanctions, sieges and bombing campaigns — and yet the pain rarely causes target states to surrender.
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On this year's win-a-trip journey, Nick Kristof and I spent eight days visiting clinics and homes, exploring schools and fields, and pushing through mud and road blockades in Paraguay and Guatemala.
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Kraehenbuehl warned of greater instability in Gaza in part because the economy is already suffering its deepest collapse after a decade of Israeli-led blockades, and internal Palestinian divisions in the coastal strip.
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Residents of Pashtun Kot district in the centre of the province say they have been unable to feed their children properly for weeks because of Taliban blockades of roads leading into the district.
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The railway blockades, which have halted more than 400 trains, are threatening part of the country's economic framework, with rail responsible for about $200 billion toward Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) a year.
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MEXICO CITY — Amid nationwide marches, highway blockades and looting stemming from widespread outrage over an increase in gas prices, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico went on national television to appeal for understanding.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Syrian opposition official on Friday ruled out even indirect peace talks with the government before a halt to Russian air strikes and the lifting of government blockades on populated areas.
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The union had said in response that there were no blockades and that the buses with the contractors were allowed through, but that workers had checked that no strike-breakers were entering the mine.
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Pork and poultry processor group ABPA said the protests are affecting transportation of feed and animals, adding that blockades had stopped work at eight plants on Tuesday and 30 more would stop on Wednesday.
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Amazon was not immediately available to comment but CDiscount, the e-commerce arm of retailer Casino, attributed the record number of visits to its websites partly to "demonstrations or blockades organized outside some shops".
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The blockades were set up by truckers seeking talks with commodities traders and transportation companies over payments for hauling grain from Mato Grosso, in Brazil's central farm belt, to export hubs in the south.
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Blockades have been a common feature of the nearly five-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 250,000 people, with government forces besieging rebel-held areas and rebel groups blockading loyalist areas.
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Earlier on Wednesday, BHP decided to suspend work indefinitely at projects linked to Escondida, such as construction work at its Coloso desalinization plant and its Los Colorados concentrator, citing continued blockades by the union.
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"This 'NOC Benghazi', headed by Faraj Said, is pursuing a complex and combined strategy, focused on destabilizing NOC, including via illicit exports, contracts and blockades, to ultimately gain control of Libyan oil," Sanalla wrote.
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So-called local reconciliation agreements are often seen as a means for the government to force surrender on insurgents, and have typically followed lengthy blockades of rebel-held areas and the civilians living there.
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But truck drivers continued to block roads, saying they wouldn't move until Brazil's Congress had approved the tax changes and Temer subsequently announced that the Armed Forces would be deployed to clear the blockades.
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More than 400 people were injured, 14 of them seriously, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, with some frustrated drivers trying to ram through blockades, and at least 157 people were taken into police custody.
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When it was announced that nine black students would start classes at Little Rock Central High in the fall of 1957, segregationists began to organize protests and blockades to keep the students from entering.
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Ecuadoreans posted videos on social media of burning road blockades and standoffs between crowds and security forces in downtown Quito ahead of the first round of talks aimed at ending 11 days of unrest.
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The occupation of the university has forced a weeklong shutdown of a tunnel leading to the business districts on Hong Kong Island from Kowloon, and activists said they planned more traffic blockades on Monday.
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On the other hand, Cramer's attempts to side with Trump on enacting trade blockades have cost him the support of other external groups such as the political network funded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.
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Rather than coordinating a single symbolic event like a die-in, land defenders and their allies come together almost every day, meeting and mingling at marches and rallies, bonding over road and rail blockades.
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The blockades, which have also temporarily closed off certain United States border crossings, are part of a growing resistance movement against a natural gas pipeline that Coastal GasLink has planned for unceded Wet'suwet'en territory.
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The United Nations and other organizations helping Yemen's civilians have also criticized the Saudi blockades that have restricted shipping and aviation, causing severe shortages and preventing foreign journalists from witnessing the conflict up close.
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Side effects include blockages & blockades, a block-Head-of-State- Your-business-as-usual, a block-head-strong-arm-of-the-law, A block-head-shot-gun-point-and-shoot, down-fall-out shelters.
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Canadian National Railway Co, the country's biggest railroad, said on Tuesday it may be forced to shut down parts of its network unless the blockades end, and others have warned of the economic consequences.
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A plan to overhaul labor rules is crucial to proving France's ability to reform, and the government will stand by it despite street protests and refinery blockades, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in an interview.
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If the bills pass we will carry out the blockades again in Crete and in Athens until we get what we are entitled to so that we don't take the law into our own hands.
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"The record high exports are a direct consequence of the reestablishment of shipments after the end of road blockades," said Francisco Turra, head of ABPA, referring to an 11-day protest that crippled Brazil's roads.
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National output has doubled since September to about 600,000 bpd after blockades at major ports were lifted, but it remains far below the 1.6 million bpd the OPEC member was producing before its 2011 uprising.
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The U.S. company has already lost battles in four cities where authorities successfully regulated or taxed the service and faced everything from blockades to physical assaults by taxi drivers, who accuse it of unfair competition.
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The data follow warnings from bosses that recent strikes and blockades threaten growth under Lopez Obrador, a leftist whose business credentials have long been questioned by critics nervous about his ability to run the economy.
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However, FNSEA chief Christiane Lambert, who had initially refused to end the blockades after late-night talks on Tuesday, warned farmers wanted to see progress on a range of issues, including red tape and taxes.
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Blockades continue to prevent trucks from entering the port of Santos, Latin America's largest, and oilseeds crushing group Abiove said soy exports would halt on Saturday if truckers did not allow access to major ports.
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More than 1,000 police at Hofstra created a labyrinth of road closures, checkpoints and blockades, making it very difficult for people to drive, for buses to drop people off, and even for people to walk.
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"At the end of the day, Trump is obviously causing problems, creating inaction, and throwing blockades in the way, but I see it as trying to run down as escalator that's moving up," Waskow said.
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Sérgio Mendes, a director at Anec, said he had been in contact with authorities in Pará and Mato Grosso states to share information he receives from traders regarding the location and impact of the blockades.
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A truckers' association behind the nationwide protest has told drivers to get back to work, but the government said progress had been slow and highway police said 556 highway blockades by protesters remained in place.
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However, the opposition said it had yet to be officially informed of a new round of talks on March 9, insisting that no serious discussions can begin before detainees are freed and blockades are lifted.
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Activity on Monday, the day the blockades came into effect, was also boosted by investors piling into equities across Europe after Washington and Beijing agreed to resume trade talks, soothing worries about mounting global tensions.
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But it also gives Beijing a strategic card to play against India and the United States if tensions worsen to the point of naval blockades as the two powers increasingly confront each other at sea.
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Passage of the bill comes as anti-government demonstrators lifted road blockades to hold talks with Anez aimed at ending weeks of unrest that have left more than 30 dead in clashes with security forces.
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"The shutdown of large sections of the Canadian rail system following First Nations protests and blockades will be a larger drag on economic activity than the coronavirus," said Sebastien Lavoie, chief economist at Laurentian Bank.
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Tensions have risen between the government and the National Union of Mineworkers, the latter of whom have formed so many blockades in pursuit of fair pay that the last remaining stockpile of coal is threatened.
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"Along with our American colleagues but above all our colleagues in the region, we must try to find solutions, especially lifting the sea and air blockades," Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told reporters in Wolfenbuettel, Germany.
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"We do not accept total responsibility, because we are not listened to," Rogelio Vargas, a leader of Oaxaca's Section 22, a radical faction of the teachers' union, said about the impact of blockades on private business.
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Nearby Inuit and Innu communities have staged massive opposition—including hunger strikes, blockades, and marches—in a push to clear the area of soil and vegetation prior to flooding, and independent monitoring with full indigenous participation.
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Kinder Morgan said it is in "deep conversations" with the RCMP and will have specific guidelines for contractors slated to build a proposed expansion where it is expecting blockades and protests at the British Columbia site.
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A Jat community leader said after reaching the accord with state and federal leaders that protesters would clear road blockades and end their agitation, in which 16 people have been killed and more than 150 injured.
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Six years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is caught in a power struggle among competing factions and various armed brigades, and the OPEC country's oil infrastructure is often the target of blockades and protests.
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Even the Banco de Mexico, the nation's central bank, reduced its 2019 forecast to between 1.1-85033 percent from a prior prediction of 1.7-2.7-percent, citing the investment slowdown, gasoline shortages, rail blockades and strikes.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Belgian airports cancelled almost all flights on Wednesday due to a national strike over pay and working conditions that halted activity at ports, hit public transport and led to blockades outside factories.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of petrol stations faced shortages in France on Saturday as protests over a labor law reform led to a fall in refinery output and blockades that hampered fuel supply and prompted consumer panic.
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Its stated purpose is to greatly reduce shipping costs and time for Chinese goods, but it would also give China an important alternative if faced with naval blockades by the United States or its Asian allies.
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Two weeks of massive demonstrations against the ruling elite largely subsided after Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Tuesday but demonstrators demanding more resignations took to the streets again on Wednesday night and erected blockades.
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VICE reached out to Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na'Moks to ask whether the proposed profile change would be enough to end rail blockades that have shut down hundreds of trains nationwide, but did not immediately hear back.
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They have also responded with physical resistance: Mohawk citizens have formed blockades of the major railway systems that have rippled across the country, holding up both passenger and freight trains, halting economic exports and leisurely travelers.
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As Trudeau continues to push for a peaceful and quick resolution to the ongoing blockades by Wet'suwet'en supporters that are currently paralyzing the majority of Canada's train routes, conservative opponents continue to criticize him for inaction.
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Scheer, 39, said he would file a formal complaint against China at the World Trade Organization and end a C$250 million investment in the Chinese-owned Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank "if their trade blockades persist".
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Some 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, the economy of which has suffered years of Israeli and Egyptian blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts and sanctions by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas' West Bank-based rival.
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"What we have is an anomalous situation where all four sides of our property are currently…being enclosed by either barricades or construction blockades of one kind or another," said Wynn Resorts Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn.
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Zarif said Iran was interested in working toward a political solution to the conflict with Qatar - which, unlike its Gulf neighbors, maintains good relations with Tehran - arguing that "pressure and sanctions and blockades" were not the answer.
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TRIPOLI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A military faction has reopened the valve on a pipeline leading to the major western Libyan oil fields of Sharara and El Feel after two years of blockades, a spokesman said on Thursday.
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The siege of Madaya, where people have reportedly died of starvation, has become a focal issue for Syrian opposition groups who want all such blockades lifted before they enter negotiations with the government planned for Jan. 25.
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In a televised speech, Temer said he was signing three decrees with immediate effect to address the main demands of truck drivers, who mounted hundreds of blockades on roads across the country to protest high diesel prices.
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Even a localised conflict close to the Chinese mainland over the disputed East or South China Seas could involve maneuvers far from its shores, whether to protect command vessels or break blockades of commercial shipping, for example.
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Even if the NOC can continue to stop the port and field blockades that crippled Libya's production in recent years, its goal of pushing production to 1.25 million bpd later this year will be difficult to achieve.
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On Friday morning, it was still uncertain whether or not the opposition would boycott the talks, after leaders announced they were not willing to engage unless aid blockades were lifted and the bombing of civilians was halted.
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Others have extensive shipboard experience that could be used to train Saudis on how to carry out blockades and how to operate equipment like electronic warfare gear that can detect and interfere with enemy radars and missiles.
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Under the leadership of Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia has tried to strangle the Houthis into submission through punishing bombing raids, blockades, withheld salaries and other punitive measures, driving Yemen toward collapse and a famine of catastrophic proportions.
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The fight over Coastal GasLink and the ongoing rail blockades in Ontario also point to a deep vein of dissatisfaction among Indigenous people who feel the government, despite its many commitments to reconciliation, is still not listening.
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ATHENS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Greek farmers on Wednesday vowed to step up action against a controversial pensions reform bill, spurning an appeal from the country's prime minister to negotiate plans which have triggered mass blockades across the country.
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Partly because of the blockades at the eastern ports, Libya's oil production is currently about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd), a fraction of the 1.6 million bpd the OPEC member was producing before the 2011 uprising toppled Gaddafi.
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Riad Hijab, who heads the council formed in Riyadh last month, accused Russia of impeding negotiations, and also told a news conference in Riyadh that the opposition could not negotiate while Syrians were dying from blockades and bombardment.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A group representing some of Mexico's biggest companies told left-wing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday that politicians should resist "extortion" by labor unions after strikes and blockades in recent weeks.
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An opposition council convening in Riyadh said its delegation would "certainly" not be in Geneva on Friday, saying it had not received convincing answers to its demands for goodwill steps including an end to air strikes and blockades.
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Sanalla said he did not know whether Brigade 30 were entitled to state salary payments as security employees, but made an appeal against the use of blockades, saying the NOC could not be blackmailed into paying out money.
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"The causes of death will be import restrictions, blockades, non-payment of government salaries, inflation, job losses, displacement, declining incomes, and violent attacks that kill civilians and destroy the infrastructure that delivers food and safe water," it said.
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Representatives of the Saudi-backed High Negotiation Committee (HNC), which includes political and militant opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, are seeking a halt to attacks on civilian areas, the release of detainees and a lifting of blockades.
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Greeks are furious over the plans, which will entail increased social security and tax payments for many groups of workers, and the farmers swiftly rebuffed Tsipras' offer of talks, pledging instead to step up their blockades of highways.
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Some two million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of Israeli and Egyptian blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts and sanctions by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas's rival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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The protest against Mora's policies included blockades which cut off access to one of Costa Rica's Caribbean ports, creating up to $10 million in daily losses, according to Laura Bonilla, spokeswoman for the Chamber of Exporters business group.
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But the panel blamed the Saudi coalition's airstrikes, blockades and shipping restrictions for most of the war's civilian casualties as well as the immense damage to Yemen's critical infrastructure, which has worsened the plight of millions of civilians.
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Canadian National Railway Co lost capacity equivalent to 10,000 carloads, or 1 million tonnes of grain exports, in February due to rail blockades by protesters opposed to a pipeline project, Chief Executive Jean-Jacques Ruest said on Tuesday.
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OTTAWA — The Canadian police on Monday began moving against protesters who had set up transportation blockades around the country in sympathy with an Indigenous group's campaign to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline to Canada's West Coast.
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In mid-June, a former PFG commander who had led earlier port blockades gathered opponents of eastern-based military chief Khalifa Haftar along with mercenaries to attack Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, held by Haftar's forces since 2016.
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The federal government is under pressure to immediately resolve the issue, as the blockades are costing the Canadian economy millions of dollars a day, and CN Rail and Via Rail have both temporarily laid off hundreds of employees.
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But a representative for the Teamsters Union told VICE the November layoffs were unrelated to the 450 CN announced this week, which mostly affected conductors, engineers, and yard workers who can't do their jobs because of the blockades.
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They suspect that the group might be testing the ground to see whether the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions will enforce the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which imposes criminal penalties for abortion clinic blockades.
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Opposition tactics could include lengthy road blockades and sit-ins, a national strike, or possibly even a march on the Miraflores presidential palace, similar to events before a short-lived coup against Maduro's successor Hugo Chavez in 20133.
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Canada's economic growth slowed to an annualized rate of 0.3% in the fourth quarter, the worst performance in almost four years, data showed last week, while railroad line blockades in recent weeks could weigh on the current quarter.
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Whenever an opposition rally is announced, the city wakes up to heavily fortified military blockades, armored tanks and squads of policemen in riot gear who eventually disperse the crowds with tear gas and rubber pellets, or, lately, gunfire.
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Some two million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of Israeli and Egyptian blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts and sanctions by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas's rival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Such agreements - a feature of the conflict for some time - are often described as a means for the government to force surrender on insurgents, and have typically followed lengthy blockades of rebel-held areas and the civilians living there.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Angry Greek farmers clashed with riot police in Athens then paraded their tractors and pick-ups outside parliament on Friday, in their first big protest in the capital against pension reform plans after weeks of road blockades.
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After the event ended, several recordings captured members of McInnes's group streaming out of the building and then clashing with a handful of leftist demonstrators who had sidestepped police blockades and were waiting for the group near another exit.
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The North African OPEC producer has managed to boost oil production to its highest level since mid-2013 when a wave of blockades and protests by armed groups started, part of Libya's conflict since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
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Black-clad protesters and university students maintained their blockades of major roads, including the entrance to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel that links Hong Kong island to the Kowloon area, and a highway between Kowloon and the rural New Territories.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The majority of deaths from Yemen's cholera outbreak have occurred in rebel-controlled areas cut off from supplies due to airstrikes and blockades by a Saudi-led military coalition, according to research published on Friday.
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Sitting in a slowly declining industrial estate near the fortified border with Israel, the 51-year-old confectioner says that Gaza has been brought to a near-standstill by a decade of Israeli-led blockades, and internal Palestinian divisions.
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Bill Kerbox, a Malibu resident, put a call out on social media for volunteers, saying billionaire Howard Leight's 143-foot yacht was on standby and ready to deliver supplies to people hemmed in due to police blockades and road closures.
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But beyond the self-inflicted, no President can expect to avoid unpleasant surprises: for example, Soviet missiles in Cuba; Berlin blockades; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; 9/11; the 2008 financial meltdown; the Arab Spring and the sudden rise of ISIS.
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Oil industry workers were on strike for a third day on Friday at four of France's seven refineries and unions urged employees to step up blockades to force the plants to halt production in a dispute over wages and bonuses.
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In the "remote" possibility of a trade war between the U.S. and China amid president-elect Donald Trump's tough talk on trade, U.S. exports like soybeans may face blockades, making exports difficult and sending cash prices in Brazil surging, said Haendler.
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Alejandro Ramirez, president of the Mexican Business Council, said strikes at factories in the northern state of Tamaulipas and blockades of railways by a teachers union had caused more than a billion dollars in losses and could cause businesses to close.
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It recently joined a Saudi-backed Syrian opposition council set up to join the U.N. peace talks, although the council is demanding an end to air strikes and blockades by the Syrian government and its allies before it will take part.
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The dramatic plunge in Greek bank shares can be attributed to the uncertainty generated by the never-ending negotiations between Athens and its creditors, public opposition to the Social Security reform, the farmer blockades and the talk of another snap election.
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Blockades have become common in the war, with government troops holding rebel-held areas near Damascus under siege for several years and, more recently, rebel groups blockading some territory loyal to Assad, who has the military backing of Iran and Russia.
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Early last year, at least 120 people were killed and hundreds injured in political violence, most in petrol bomb attacks on vehicles, amid transport blockades and strikes by the opposition aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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During the American Civil War, the Confederacy smuggled cotton through Mexican ports to markets in Europe to get around the Union's naval blockades, and during the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century, American merchants supplied Mexican troops with arms.
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Analysts said the deal is more likely to stick than earlier ones, given Hamas's growing isolation and realization of how hard Gaza, its economy hobbled by border blockades and infrastructure shattered by wars with Israel, was to govern and rebuild.
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In February, an ambitious plan by the opposition, led by Mr. Guaidó, to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela from neighboring countries degenerated into bloody skirmishes as the trucks ran into blockades set up by security forces loyal to Mr. Maduro.
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But by the end of 2016, the blockades were lifted by one armed group, the Libyan National Army, and threats to the oil fields by local adherents of the Islamic State were alleviated by a successful push of opposing militias.
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The newly elevated crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who as defense minister has led the country's bombing and blockades of Yemen, showed his charitable side on Friday with a $66.7 million donation to fight the cholera outbreak in that country.
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At the same time, the Saudis have faced growing criticism from human rights groups, which have accused them of indiscriminate bombings and air and sea blockades that have destroyed what is left of Yemen's economy and worsened the humanitarian disaster there.
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This will allow the Damascene dictator to consolidate his grip on the country he has brutalized for nearly 20 years — demonstrating to autocrats everywhere that using sarin gas, barrel bombs, hunger blockades, and every other barbaric method against defenseless civilians pays.
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Last week, the police, acting on a warrant, tried to remove them, inspiring protesters across the country to act in sympathy and set up their own blockades, as well as campsites, at transport sites, beginning with the one in Tyendinaga.
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TORONTO, Feb 19703 (Reuters) - Canadian indigenous groups are leading the charge against fossil-fuel development in a country with the world's third-largest proven oil reserves, using rail blockades as leverage and putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a bind.
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The government had held a meeting with community leader Gregorio Rojas, in the capital Lima on Sunday and offered to terminate emergency measures authorizing the use of military force in the region in exchange for an end to the blockades.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean mining activity fell 7.1% in November, government data showed on Tuesday, plagued in part by operational issues at major mines during a tumultuous month of protests, road and port blockades and worker strikes in the South American nation.
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The U.S. also alleged that Assad, who is bent on staying in power against an array of opposition forces as well as terrorist networks, was blocking civilian access to humanitarian supplies, and it urged Russia to help ease those blockades.
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Under Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been implicated in Mr. Khashoggi's brutal murder, the coalition has imposed periodic blockades that are intended to penalize the Houthis, but end up harming civilians most of all.
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Only last year, Mr Valls had to force through by decree an enfeebled version of his labour reforms, after trade unions, notably the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), organised blockades of oil depots, refineries and transport, and demonstrators took to the streets.
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MORE: France may give workers right to ignore emails at home In the western French city of Donges, protestors burned tires and trash in one of many blockades that have stopped fuel tankers in their tracks, forcing them to turn around or reroute.
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A few in the industry are speculating that the government might take control, as the Labour government did in the face of blockades at oil refineries in 2000, working with the industry to allocate petrol to stations in areas with large populations.
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The IMF puts unemployment at 30% in the West Bank and 50% in Gaza, which has suffered years of Israeli and Egyptian blockades and recent foreign aid cuts and sanctions by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas' rival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Meanwhile, 213 million people have been displaced from their homes, and ongoing air strikes and port blockades have pushed the country — which has to import 2100 percent of its food, fuel, and medical supplies — to the brink of economic collapse and famine.
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SAO PAULO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian police have cleared blockades by protesting truckers at three points of a main road for soy and corn shipments in the country's top grains producing state of Mato Grosso, highway operator Rota do Oeste said on Wednesday.
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A few in the industry are speculating that the government could take control, as the Labour government did in the face of blockades at oil refineries in 2000, working with the industry to allocate petrol to stations in areas with large populations.
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Late last week, Pemex warned that road blockades by protesters could cause the facility's storage tanks to reach their limits and potentially force the company to shut the refinery, Pemex's biggest with a capacity to process 330,000 barrels of crude per day.
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PARIS, May 27 (Reuters) - The fuel supply situation in France is improving after a week of disruption and shortages caused by strikes and all but one of the country's fuel depot blockades has been cleared, a transport ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Saudi-backed Syrian opposition has reiterated demands for a halt to bombardments of civilian areas and the lifting of blockades on besieged towns and villages before the start of peace talks in a letter to the U.N. secretary general.
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Libya is producing as much as 1.3 million bpd, the NOC chairman said last week, the highest level since mid-2013 when a wave of protests and blockades by armed groups and staff began that has hampered output in the OPEC oil producer.
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While the early anti-choice extremists in the immediate aftermath of the Roe decision made their displeasure known in the streets, through sit-ins, blockades, bombings and killings, the hard edge of today's movement has shifted decidedly into the corridors of power.
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"The blockades happened very early in the morning, with groups walking through the hills and attempting to avoid surveillance, although sometimes running into the military or police on land and in helicopters," said one anarchist activist, who was arrested during a motorway blockade.
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And the company claims it's releasing each with the seal of approval from the Food and Drug Administration at a time when other medical devices and bio-tech firms have hit regulatory blockades with the agency (or simply run afoul of it).
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As such, every roadblock you hit, from the literal blockades set up by rival gangs to a request for help from one of Arthur's old flames, is framed as a troubling distraction on your long, twisting route towards freedom (whatever that means).
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OTTAWA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A Canadian government minister was scheduled to open two days of talks with a major indigenous group on Thursday in a bid to end three weeks of rail and road blockades across the country that are harming the economy.
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MONTREAL, March 3 (Reuters) - Canadian National Railway Co lost capacity equivalent to 10,000 carloads or 1 million tonnes of grain exports in February due to rail blockades by protesters opposed to a pipeline project, Chief Executive Jean-Jacques Ruest said on Tuesday.
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"NOC faces huge challenges including the regularity of NOC's obtaining of employees' salaries in full and in a timely manner, the budgets related to maintenance operations, the blockades, and military actions which hinder production," the company said in a statement last week.
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That campaign has made limited progress in more than two years, and human rights groups have accused the Saudis of bombing civilians, destroying the economy of the Arab world's poorest country and exacerbating a humanitarian crisis by imposing air and sea blockades.
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One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what we do to ourselves in times of peace and what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
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OTTAWA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak to reporters later on Friday to discuss rail blockades led by indigenous protesters that have led to temporary railroad layoffs and are causing some shortages of goods, his spokesman said on Twitter.
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Those arrests sparked solidarity protests across the country: During the past two weeks, protesters have temporarily blocked access to the B.C. Legislature, Vancouver ports, an Ontario border crossing, bridges and city streets, in addition to setting up rail blockades in several provinces.
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Mariana Mamane, a 23-year-old mango seller, told CNN that she finds it more and more difficult to find fruit to sell on the street but that she nevertheless supported the blockades for as long as the interim government remained in power.
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One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
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BRUSSELS — A national strike in Belgium over pay and working conditions has led to the cancellation of all flights in and out of the country, halted public transport and prompted blockades outside factories, threatening to bring the country to a standstill on Wednesday.
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Also on Sunday, the United Nations said it parachuted food supplies to thousands of people besieged by IS fighters in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, in a bid to ease more than two years of blockades and shortages.
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Syria's opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), which groups Assad's political and armed opponents, said on Monday it accepted "international efforts for a cessation of hostilities", but only on the condition that previous demands including an end to blockades and the bombardment of civilians were fulfilled.
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" Estrada, who belongs to the radical teachers union Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, or CNTE, said that some of the blockades are lifted at night and that food and fuel have always got through, though it might take "a bit more effort.
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The opposition's High Negotiation Committee, which groups political and armed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, has said it will not attend negotiations until the government halts bombardments, lifts blockades, and releases detainees - steps mentioned in a United Nations Security Council resolution passed last month.
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The NOC has said that it hopes to raise production to 900,000 bpd in the near future and to 1.1 million bpd next year, though it says those increases are dependent on blockades ending and the NOC receiving new funds for its operating budget.
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GENEVA, April 11 (Reuters) - The United Nations said it parachuted food supplies to thousands of people besieged by Islamic State militants in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, in a bid to ease more than two years of blockades and shortages.
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The refinery blockades have created shortages or completely drained fuel supplies at about 4,000 of the country's roughly 11,500 service stations, according to an interview by Agence France-Presse with Pierre Auclair, a founder of the app Essence, which tracks fuel supplies to gas stations.
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The ordinance, passed last year, is widely considered to be a no-brainer: The Federal Communications Commission recently found that incumbent blockades—like the one AT&T is doing now—lead to significant and unnecessary cost increases and delays for new entrants into markets.
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In the 2006 presidential election, Mr. López Obrador lost to Felipe Calderón by less than a percentage point and disputed the results for months, including rallying his supporters to the streets of the capital, where they set up blockades lasting weeks to demand a recount.
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In the 2006 presidential election, Mr. López Obrador lost to Felipe Calderón by less than a percentage point and disputed the results for months, including rallying his supporters to the streets of the capital, where they set up blockades for weeks to demand a recount.
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That's thanks to pipeline closures and blockades of export terminals last week by rebel groups under the command of rogue general Khalifa Haftar, whose militias are battling the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli to take control of the Libyan capital.
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This means forming areas of containment—sometimes with concrete blockades, sometimes their own armored bodies lined shoulder-to-shoulder—to keep the fights within from spilling to the businesses and thoroughfares, but allowing just about anything at all to go on inside the protest areas.
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"This week, the actions, the strikes and the blockades by workers from a number of industries to demand the retraction of this labor bill and to obtain new rights shows that our determination remains intact," several unions led by the CGT said earlier in an open letter.
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LIMA, April 1 (Reuters) - The Peruvian government has offered to end emergency measures authorizing the use of force in a remote Andean region if indigenous protesters lift their blockades of roads to Chinese miner MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper mine, the prime minister said on Monday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition council has yet to be officially informed of U.N. plans to hold a new round of peace talks on March 9 and no serious discussions can begin before detainees are freed and blockades are lifted, an opposition official said on Tuesday.
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Rabelo said the protesters have planned new blockades for at least one week ahead, each day at a different point in the BR-163, which is a key road for trucks carrying soybeans and corn from center-west farms to a trans-shipment hub in Miritituba.
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The Enough Project, a Washington-based anti-genocide group, called the lifting of sanctions "premature" and said any easing of pressure on Sudan should be in exchange for resolving conflicts in Darfur and in South Kordofan, and ensuring humanitarian access to those affected by government military blockades.
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PARIS — Forget a velvet rope: The Balmain show has become such a magnet for fans and paparazzi that French police put up cordons and blockades on Thursday afternoon to control the chaos outside the Hôtel Potocki, a former nobleman's palace a stone's throw from the Champs-Élysées.
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Even once the war has begun in earnest, Hamid's narrative stays determinedly focused on the mundane details of survival: how to stockpile food, how to travel through blockades, how to barricade windows and hide gold, how to catch up on the news when the internet is blocked.
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President Trump's immigration agenda ran into legal blockades in courts around the country on Friday as judges in four states barred his administration from trying to withhold green cards from people who use public benefits and rejected his plan to divert funds to erect a border wall.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian police and military forces used armored vehicles and helicopters to clear access to a major gas plant in the city of El Alto on Tuesday, a show of strength after blockades at the facility had cut off fuel supply to nearby La Paz.
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The flare-up was triggered by a botched Israeli commando incursion on Sunday but the surge of violence has been stoked by the economic plight of the Gaza Strip, which Israel blockades in hope of isolating Hamas, an Islamist movement designated a terrorist group by the West.
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"We have seen worse, we have seen injustice, killings and blockades," said Talat, waiting to vote in the regional capital of Erbil, as a group of smiling women, in colorful Kurdish dress, emerged from the school showing their fingers stained with ink, a sign that they cast their ballot.
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" When protests broke out in Iran in 2009, conservative writer Michelle Malkin framed it in terms of the revolutionary potential of blogging: "In the hands of freedom-loving dissidents, the micro-blogging social network is a revolutionary samizdat—undermining the mullah-cracy's information blockades one Tweet at a time.
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A militia led by Frederic Bintsamou, better known as Pastor Ntumi, which fought Sassou Nguesso during and after a 1997 civil war, has been blamed by the government for deadly raids on police, military and government bases, and has also halted trade through the Pool region with blockades.
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But in the grimy settlement of some 2,800 people where authorities say the eponymous Santa Rosa de Lima gang paid residents to obstruct marines and federal police with blockades and burning vehicles and by informing on their movements, some were less certain the government had the upper hand.
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Now that the number of infections has slowed, many parts of the country are lifting their lockdowns, removing road blockades and allowing people to travel more freely in areas where the virus appears to have run its course — as long as they have documented proof that they are healthy.
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Death threats to abortion providers, blockades, fires and protests at Planned Parenthood clinics — already hotbeds of political unrest — increased after the videos, and picketing ticked up fourfold, to 21,715 reported incidents in 2015, according to a study by the National Abortion Federation, a Washington-based association of abortion providers.
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Hanoi wants the pact to outlaw many of the actions China has carried out across the hotly disputed waterway in recent years, including artificial island building, blockades and offensive weaponry such as missile deployments, according to a negotiating draft of the ASEAN Code of Conduct (COC) seen by Reuters.
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Upon finding out that authorities sought to capture Ovidio Guzman and extradite him to the United States, the cartel's heavily armed gunmen strategically erected 19 blockades during a roughly four-hour stretch in the afternoon, preventing additional military and police from responding as terrorized locals scurried for cover.
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"I've got businesses in Missouri who use raw materials which aren't made in the United States and they are very worried about the impact a decision in this area will have on their costs of producing goods, but they are also worried about any other national security blockades," she said.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a "Free Speech" rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of last weekend's violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia.
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"Unlike political bans, porn bans may have the opposite of the intended effect by pushing otherwise apolitical citizens into networks that bypass government blockades," Hawkins said in an xHamster blog post about the UK's Digital Economy Act of 2017, which requires ISPs to block adult websites unless customers opt out.
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The monarch's televised address came at the close of a daylong general strike in Catalonia, as well as road blockades and a mass rally in downtown Barcelona, to protest Sunday's police crackdown on voters as they took part in an independence referendum that had been declared illegal by Spain's constitutional court.
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"Now more than ever, Al Shabab effectively deploys I.E.D.s, complex attacks on both civilian and military targets, blockades to disrupt access, devises sophisticated extortion generating schemes, and utilizes intimidation tactics to afford itself invincibility status aimed at destabilizing Somalia and threatening neighboring countries," said Abdisaid Muse Ali, Somalia's national security adviser.
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Last week, the bungled arrest of one of the sons of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sparked an hours-long siege of the city of Culiacan, the capital of northern Sinaloa state, punctuated by blockades and running fire fights pitting outmatched security forces against a small army of Sinaloa Cartel gunmen.
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The arrests came during a five-hour conflict with police and around 300 protesters, some of whom stubbornly parked cars on the highway near the camp to block authorities from reaching them, according to the AP. They also set a small fire at one of two blockades they set up on the highway.
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More than three years of a military campaign — accompanied by naval and aerial blockades — by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates backed by the United States has yet to defeat the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, but it has reduced the people of Yemen to destitution and created the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
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Even Anonymous Catalonia's Telegram channel, which has been putting out a steady stream of unfiltered crowdsourced protest content this week — replete with videos of burning bins, siren blaring police vans and scattering crowds, interspersed with photos of empty roads (successful blockades) and the odd rubber bullet wound — only has a 'mere' 21981k+ subscribers.
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Three other women SAPD officers who spoke to BuzzFeed News on the condition of anonymity said that the department's struggle to hire, retain, and promote women stemmed from the chauvinism that trickled down from the command staff to the rank and file, subjecting women to demeaning comments, an isolating work environment, and professional blockades.
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To win over truckers the government promised to extend for 30 days a 10-percent diesel price cut announced by state-led oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Shares of Petrobras, as the company is known, closed down nearly 1.4 percent on Friday after plunging 19 percent in the prior two days, as the blockades continued.
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Khanna's hoping the administration notices the bipartisan frustration that's simmering in Congress and uses the War Powers Act vote as leverage to at least compel the Saudis to end the blockades at ports of entry that are keeping international aid, including food and medicine, from getting to millions of civilians on the brink of starvation.
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The cartel's show of force — including blockades, taking security personnel hostage, and gun battles with authorities — was in response to the capture of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one of Guzman's sons who has been indicted in the US.Shortly after his capture, however, the younger Guzman was back on the street, apparently freed by Mexican forces.
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The rumors had been flying in the New York area since Saturday: Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had swooped into churches and public schools, dragged away an undocumented family at the Staten Island Mall, pulled over drivers on the Southern State Parkway and set up blockades in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and at the Staten Island Ferry.
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UNITED NATIONS — Five days after world powers announced that aid would soon reach starving Syrians trapped behind front lines, the United Nations was still negotiating with the government in Damascus on Tuesday over lifting blockades to humanitarian convoys, announcing by day's end that it hoped to start sending 80 trucks to deliver food and lifesaving medicines on Wednesday.
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In a paper presented at the 2016 USENIX computer security symposium, researchers Eric Wustrow and Benjamin VanderSloot propose what they call "DDoSCoin," a theoretical cryptocurrency that uses a "malicious proof-of-work" derived from participating in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, the digital blockades that make websites temporarily unavailable by flooding them with millions of simultaneous requests.
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Some worry that they will take advantage of the wealth accumulated from drug trafficking, illegal mining, kidnapping and extortion to secure political control of the areas where they have been based and from there possibly mount a popular mobilisation—farmers' blockades/strikes(paros), industrial action, demonstrations—modelled on president Evo Morales's successful route to power in Bolivia.
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Back in 2006, The New York Times's Clive Thompson described the unsavory options facing the company: If Google remained aloof and continued to run its Chinese site from foreign soil, it would face slowdowns from the firewall and the threat of more arbitrary blockades—and eventually, the loss of market share to Baidu and other Chinese search engines.
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One man was killed in the port city of La Ceiba on Friday and a 19-year old woman was shot in the head early Saturday in Tegucigalpa as soldiers busted up protesters' blockades of rubble and burning tires that had snarled traffic in the capital and major ports, a spokesman for the national police said.
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"Foreign enterprises, organisations or individuals that do not comply with market rules, deviate from a contract's spirit or impose blockades or stop supplies to Chinese enterprises for non-commercial purposes, and seriously damage the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, will be included on a list of 'unreliable entities'," he was quoted as saying by state-owned local media.
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"Foreign enterprises, organizations or individuals that do not comply with market rules, deviate from a contract's spirit or impose blockades or stop supplies to Chinese enterprises for non-commercial purposes, and seriously damage the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, will be included on a list of 'unreliable entities'," Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng told the Global Times.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Senators Uphold Trump's War Powers," rejecting a measure "to halt American military support for the deadly Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen" (news article, March 21): When they met in Washington recently, President Trump could have pressed hard for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to end Saudi airstrikes and blockades in Yemen.
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In Canada we've had to get used to this feeling the past few weeks as a long-simmering dispute over a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. has grown into the biggest story in the country, with coast-to-coast blockades underlining a broken relationship between Indigenous peoples and the provincial and federal leaders who claim to care about their rights.
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According to three women who have worked as SAPD officers under McManus and who spoke with me on the condition of anonymity, women on the force face demeaning comments, an isolating work environment, and professional blockades that prevent them from rising up the hierarchy, leaving the department stuck in an atmosphere of misogyny that stretches from the command staff to the rank and file.
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He has told aides that he feels bad about the traffic blockades that the Secret Service requires for his travel disrupting the businesses near Trump Tower, and that he has found it less troublesome to spend time at his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Aides say that he misses his former life, and that being cosseted in the White House has been suffocating for him.
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The US has dispatched warships to reinforce Saudi Arabia's blockades on Yemen, which stopped the entry of goods and basic necessities and led to the world's largest humanitarian crisis according to the UN. It has also refuelled Saudi planes,expanded its intelligence-sharing with Saudi Arabia, and in May 22009 it completed a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totalling more than $22010 billion dollars.
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While there will be plenty of self-congratulatory back-slapping in Davos by the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates on how they've managed to create impressive gains for children -- the number of childhood deaths per year has been cut in half since 1990 -- those gains are diluted when millions of children face starvation from blockades and unspeakably violent deaths from shelling and landmines.
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Related: More Than 100 Attempts, One Death: The Face of a Tiny Canadian Community's Suicide Crisis Some have compared #OccupyINAC to the Idle No More movement that swept Canada in 2012 and saw hundreds of people take part in "flash mob round dances," blockades, and other demonstrations in protest of poor living conditions, and legislation proposed by the previous Conservative government that they said violated basic treaty rights.
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Released data shows, SG costs around SG0.15bn for holding Formula 1 per year, which is around RMB0.75bn, and 60% of that is paid by the government, in the past several years, there was also a hot debate among local residents about whether Singapore should continue to host the grand prix, opponents argue that the high costs do not bring particularly obvious economy benefits, and a week of blockades would inconvenience daily life and businesses along the streets.
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Debbie Wasserman SchultzDeborah (Debbie) Wasserman SchultzParkland father: Twitter did not suspend users who harassed me using name of daughter's killer Hillicon Valley: Senate Intel releases election security report | GOP blocks votes on election security bills | Gabbard sues Google over alleged censorship | Barr meets state AGs on tech antitrust concerns House committee leader questions Trump on efforts to secure elections MORE, traveled to the Venezuela-Colombia border over the weekend, where Maduro's government has set up blockades to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the country.
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