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Protests sweep globe

AFP, Jakarta
A fresh wave of demonstrations against the US-led war on Iraq kicked off in Asia on Sunday, with the Muslims and Christians of Jakarta marching side by side to oppose the continuing conflict.
As hundreds of thousands rallied in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, China gingerly allowed its first anti-war protests and Europe geared up for another day of pacifist action.
About 200,000 people, many of them women with children, marched through Jakarta in the country's biggest protest to date against the 11-day-old war to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The protestors, many of them Muslims in white dress, gathered in a sprawling city square facing the US embassy, guarded by police wielding batons and shields.
Several Christian youth groups added their weight to the protes, and their presence was acknowledged by the main speakers.
Crowd estimates varied. Police put the number of participants at around 200,000, while the organisers said more than three million people showed up.
One group of protestors held up a strip of green cloth the length of a
football pitch, inscribed with "Stop the massacre in Iraq". Other people crowded round to write their names on the banner.
The organisers -- a coalition of Muslim groups including some of the country's most influential religious bodies -- dubbed the gathering a rally of "one million believers".
Jakarta is a vocal critic of the war on Iraq and has appealed for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to call a halt to the invasion.
China on Sunday allowed its first open protests against the war in Iraq. For a few moments the Beijing authorities wound up with more spontaneity than they could handle and responded with arrests.
While two small-scale, carefully controlled protests early in the day went ahead calmly, a third in the afternoon came close to spinning out of control.
Several arrests were made when dozens of protesters, mostly students, left the capital's Chaoyang Park, where the authorities had confined them to a small demonstration far from public view.
One student repeatedly defied police orders to stop unfolding a green and red banner reading "Give Peace a Chance" in front of rolling TV cameras.
Earlier, about 100 students had
gathered at Beijing's University campus, under a red banner reading "Respect life, oppose war", while about 200 foreigners rallied in a park in Beijing's embassy district, later marching past the US ambassador's residence.
China is the only major country in the world where the government has publicly declared its opposition to the war but where no mass demonstrations have been allowed to take place.
In Seoul, some 20,000 union activists carrying anti-US and antiwar placards rallied near the National Assembly to oppose the dispatch of 700 non-combatant South Korean troops to Iraq.
A day earlier, groups of protestors had burned the US flag and scuffled with riot police after marching on the US embassy in Seoul to protest at their government's support for Washington.
Spain's first peace marches of the day kicked off in the capital, where some 2,000 people turned out despite pouring rain to voice their tireless opposition to the government's support for the US-led war.
The protestors were set to march on a military base some 10 kilometres (six miles) away, made available to the United States to use during the war on Iraq. Similar actions were planned at at least five other Spanish air bases.