Fuel Depots Blocked in Price Protest
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From Times Wire Reports
Truck drivers blocked three fuel depots in Melbourne, marking the first protests in Australia targeting soaring fuel prices. In another sign of unhappiness over the prices, farmers said they would demonstrate outside the federal Parliament in Canberra next week. Meanwhile, in Peru’s capital, Lima, bus drivers joined a nationwide truckers strike protesting high oil prices that has already choked off fuel and food supplies and wreaked havoc in key cities.
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