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Hundreds of anti-globalisation rioters in Rome October 4, 2003(22:37) In Rome Italian riot police fired tear gas to break up a protest by anti-globalisation demonstrators outside a summit where European leaders were mulling over a new EU constitution. At least eight people were injured and 24 detained in the clashes near the heavily fortified venue in Rome's EUR district. Eight were held in custody. Earlier a group of hooded rioters had earlier attacked a bank near the summit conference centre, damaging the building's reinforced glass windows. Meanwhile, European Union defence ministers have agreed that the bloc should aim to take...

Western leftists find themselves in strange company when it comes to the Middle East. Are they really happy to line up with neo-Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists? By Mick Hume Once upon a time, a hundred years or so ago, it was fashionable to attack something called "Jewish capitalism". August Bebel, a German friend of Karl Marx, described this attempt to give anti-Semitism a progressive spin as "the socialism of fools". Today's fashion for Israel-bashing seems to me to represent a similar foolishness. It is not old-fashioned anti-Semitism. But there is a growing tendency to endorse dubious ideas under the guise...