Thousands of protesters have rallied in the Spanish capital,

thousands of protesters have rallied in the Spanish capital, Madrid, against the cost of a visit by the Pope, hours before he is due to arrive.

A number of the demonstrators clashed with police after marching to the central Sol square chanting slogans.

Earlier, Spanish police arrested a Mexican student for allegedly plotting to gas the anti-Pope rallies.

The trip comes at a time of economic hardship in Spain, although organisers say the pilgrimage is self-funded.

Up to a million pilgrims from across the world have gathered in the city for the six-day World Youth Day (WYD 2011) festival, which culminates with an open-air mass on Sunday celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Pope will arrive at Madrid's Barajas airport on Thursday morning and hold meetings with young people at WYD 2011 later in the day.

More than 100 groups opposed to the Pope's visit planned to protest on Wednesday evening.

They include those who belong to the 15-M "indignant" movement - who oppose the government's austerity drive - as well as gay rights groups and others who oppose aspects of Catholic teaching.

"We are not angry about the Pope's visit, which some will agree with and others won't, but rather over the financing of it with public money, especially at a time when many services are being cut because it's necessary to curb government spending," 15-M said in a statement.

Protesters walked into the old city centre shouting "Nothing for the Pope from my taxes".

"It is costing a lot of money for the Spanish state which is going through a bad period," one protester, 55-year-old Rosa Vazquez, told Reuters news agency.

Syria protests continue and crackdown latest news

Anti-government protesters continue to take to the streets across Syria, despite reports of deaths and arrests as the military cracks down on demonstrators.

Rallies were staged in several locations after night prayers on Tuesday, including in Homs, Albu Kamal near the Iraqi border, Binnish in the north and in some Damascus suburbs.

Meanwhile, the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an activist network, reported that at least two people had been killed in the coastal city of Latakia, where the military kept up an assault for the fourth straight day. One of the victims was a 13-year-old boy shot dead by a sniper, they said.


Rights group Avaaz said it had the names of nine people killed in the city, but the death toll was not confirmed by other activists, who said 36 people have been killed there since Saturday.

A resident of the al-Ramel al-Janoubi neighbourhood, who called himself Ismail, told Al Jazeera earlier in the day that gunboats and tanks had used in the assault. He said snipers were stationed around the city, shooting at anyone who ventured into the streets.

"What's happening is really severe ... The moment they see anything moving they will shoot it," he said.

Troops raided and destroyed houses in several neighbourhoods while gunfire could be heard, residents said.

"The heavy machine gun fire and bullets were intense in areas of Latakia, Ramel, Masbah al-Shaab and Ain Tamra for more than three hours," said the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The group said soldiers raided the Sqanturi area and made dozens of arrests.

'Waking up to gunfire'

"We have become used to sleeping and waking up to the sound of gunfire every day. The shooting usually comes from security forces based on rooftops of the surrounding schools," Yamam Alsham, from Al-Slaibeh suburb, told the AFP news agency.

The UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees in Latakia said that thousands of refugees have fled their camp which reportedly came under fire after President Bashar al-Assad's forces began shelling the city.


Regional powers have turned up the pressure on Assad

"A forgotten population has become a disappeared population because we have no idea of the whereabouts of as many as 10,000 refugees who fled Latakia over the last few days,'' said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness.

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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is delivering this year's National Day Rally speech at 6.45pm tonight at the National University of Singapore's University Cultural Centre.
The Rally is always a time of good news and for the first time, I actually felt that there was a piece of good news that affected me directly – the rise in income ceiling for purchasing a flat. That was definitely worth celebrating. Other moves like the modified age ceiling for PCPS were definitely worth celebrating, but not something I feel strongly about yet.
But of course I shouldn’t be harsh really. Afterall, the government had been making many decisions for us until now. It’s natural to breed such dependent mindset. But that has to change. We are no more the uneducated cohort as the past generations and it’s time we learn to stand up for ourselves.
He has announced that Singapore Ministry Of Manpower (MOM) will further tighten measures on the middle range of foreign workers. Middle range of foreign workers are those with Employment Pass and their competition on the white collar jobs with Singaporeans was one of the hottest topics in Singapore.
SINGAPORE While all eyes may be on the uncertain economic outlook, Members of Parliament MPs and political analysts noted that social cohesion and.

SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver this year's National Day Rally (NDR) speech on Aug 14 from 6.45pm. He will speak in Malay, Mandarin and English.
Let’s be very mindful, MNCS here are very important to our economy. They are a substantial part of our business community so our policies must be balanced, yes its ‘Singapore first’, but it should not be ‘Singapore only’.”

Overarching all business issues, is keeping the economy competitive. And on that front, it has some catch-up to do.

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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is delivering this year's National Day Rally speech at 6.45pm tonight at the National University of Singapore's University Cultural Centre.
The Rally is always a time of good news and for the first time, I actually felt that there was a piece of good news that affected me directly – the rise in income ceiling for purchasing a flat. That was definitely worth celebrating. Other moves like the modified age ceiling for PCPS were definitely worth celebrating, but not something I feel strongly about yet.
But of course I shouldn’t be harsh really. Afterall, the government had been making many decisions for us until now. It’s natural to breed such dependent mindset. But that has to change. We are no more the uneducated cohort as the past generations and it’s time we learn to stand up for ourselves.
He has announced that Singapore Ministry Of Manpower (MOM) will further tighten measures on the middle range of foreign workers. Middle range of foreign workers are those with Employment Pass and their competition on the white collar jobs with Singaporeans was one of the hottest topics in Singapore.
SINGAPORE While all eyes may be on the uncertain economic outlook, Members of Parliament MPs and political analysts noted that social cohesion and.

SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver this year's National Day Rally (NDR) speech on Aug 14 from 6.45pm. He will speak in Malay, Mandarin and English.
Let’s be very mindful, MNCS here are very important to our economy. They are a substantial part of our business community so our policies must be balanced, yes its ‘Singapore first’, but it should not be ‘Singapore only’.”

Overarching all business issues, is keeping the economy competitive. And on that front, it has some catch-up to do.

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there is Famine In Southern Somalia Declared by Un

The UN officially declared famine in two southern Somalia regions Wednesday as the world slowly mobilised to save 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years. The United States urged Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels controlling the area to allow the return of relief groups they expelled two years ago, , Valerie Amos, urged the world to make the link between climate change and the drought. Somalia is the most dangerous country in the world to work in, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program, which lost 14 relief workers in the past few years. Looting and attacks on aid convoys occur frequently.

WFP head Josette Sheeran said the group is willing to return to southern Somalia if the insurgents guarantee safe passage.

"We are absolutely fully committed to going where the hungry are," she said.
The extended drought is forcing an estimated 3,000 people a day from Somalia to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. We speak to Yves van Loo in Nairobi of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Somalia, who was in Mogadishu just two weeks ago. We also speak to investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, who recently returned from assignment in Somalia.

aid groups warned many would die without urgent action and funding. In some places, the child malnutrition rate has soared to 55% and infant deaths have reached six a day, UNICEF says. Agencies are appealing for aid to boost operations in the war- and drought-stricken nation.Eleven-month-old Abdifatah Hassan, suffering from severe malnutrition, is cared for at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders at a camp housing Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya. Daily arrivals have soared from 200 to nearly 2,000 and officials at Dadaab are struggling to cope. Gezahegn Kebede, regional director of children’s charity Plan, says: “What we are seeing at Dadaab is just the tip of the iceberg. There are millions of people without enough food for themselves or their children.

“They’re spread across six countries in an area larger than Western Europe – many are on the move across some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible lands on the planet. They need help and fast.
The United Nations officially declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia, saying child malnutrition rates exceed 30% and as many as six children age 5 or younger are dying daily. The region is suffering its worst drought in 60 years and tens of thousands are feared dead.
Aid agencies are now talking about an inevitable declaration of a famine in Somalia for the first time since 1992.Then, at the height of a vicious civil war, more than 200,000 people died but many more could be threatened this time round.Habiba The main reason for the severity of this drought - as compared to the droughts of previous years - is the catastrophic and extensive death of livestock. Why is the U.S. doing so little to respond? Politics. In 2008, when most of Somalia's territory was occupied by Ethiopian troops in support of a U.S.-allied Somali government, the U.S. contributed 10 times more humanitarian aid to Somalia than it has this year. But when the Ethiopians pulled out in early 2009, most of southern Somalia was forcibly taken over by militant movements that the U.S. had designated as terrorists.