"German police clash with antinuke group" by Associated Press / November 8, 2010
DANNENBERG, Germany — Activists rappelled from a high bridge, broke through police lines, and chained themselves to German train tracks yesterday, trying to halt a shipment of nuclear waste as they protested Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans to keep using nuclear energy.
The train, which set off Friday from a reprocessing plant in France, was slowly heading for the city of Dannenberg, where containers carrying 123 tons of reprocessed nuclear waste were to be loaded onto trucks for the final leg of their journey to the disputed storage site at Gorleben.
Yesterday, riot police tried to stop up to 4,000 protesters making their way through the woods onto the tracks near Dannenberg ahead of the nuclear-waste train. Police used water cannons and pepper spray and wrestled with activists to break up the protest, but some reached the rail line....
Nuclear energy has been unpopular since fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine drifted over Germany....
The protest stopped the train, but police hauled the demonstrators away, and the train continued on....
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Protesters block German waste haulers
A shepherdess hoping to block the transport of nuclear waste to a storage site in northern Germany herded her flock of 500 sheep and some 60 goats yesterday across a road leading to the site.
Related: Nuclear waste shipment reaches German site
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"Karlsruhe zoo fire kills 26 animals
Firefighters responded to a blaze at the elephant house of the zoo in Karlsruhe, Germany. Shetland ponies, goats, sheep, and a llama were among the animals killed. No cause has been determined. (Uli Deck/AFP/Getty Images)
BERLIN — A fire at the Karlsruhe zoo in southwestern Germany killed 26 animals, including Shetland ponies, goats, sheep, and a llama. Karlsruhe police said elephants and hippos were saved from their enclosures next to the petting zoo that caught fire and burned down early yesterday. Authorities are investigating but no cause has been determined (AP)."
