Riot police on Tuesday forced their way into a building in central London occupied by anti-capitalists, and clashed with protesters demonstrating in the British capital ahead of next week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland. Police said they had made six arrests, including one person accused of assaulting an officer and another for criminal damage. More than 100 riot officers surrounded a former police station in the Soho district thought to be an anti-capitalist squat, and after a tense standoff pushed their way inside to escort several people from the building.

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years.

New York, Apr 27 (EFE).- New York is for many the world's financial capital, the symbol of capitalism, the home of Wall Street vultures, stars and celebrities. But in the city of skyscrapers, almost half the inhabitants have trouble making ends meet until the end of the month. "The history of New York has always been that way, the home of rich and poor where inequalities are part of the landscape of a city that offers immense riches to some but poverty and misery for so many others," the president of the Hispanic Federation, Jose Calderon, told Efe in an interview.

Racism and xenophobia, particularly hatred of Muslim immigrants, is becoming a serious issue in Europe that is threatening the continent's democracies, President Abdullah Gul has said, calling on European leaders to act on the issue.Racism and discriminatory attitudes are the fundamental enemies of democracy and they should be overcome by activating the self-protective reflexes inherent to democracy, President Gul said, speaking at the opening session of the two-day Migration, Islam and Multiculturalism Symposium in Europe, being held in the capital.The symposium, held at the