Riots as trade delegates barter over compromise
Anti-globalisation protesters battled with riot police today and tried to storm a convention centre in Hong Kong where World Trade Organisation negotiators raced against the clock to reach a compromise they hoped would rescue the talks from being a flop.
With the six-day WTO meeting entering its final hours, delegates planned to meet through the night in hopes of bridging differences over a draft agreement that sought to inch toward a sweeping free-trade deal.
