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Sunday, 22 April, 2001, 04:24 GMT 05:24 UK
In pictures: Quebec clashes
There have been more violent demonstrations in the Canadian city of Quebec, where leaders from North and South America agreed that non-democratic nations would be excluded from the world's biggest free-trade zone which they intend to create.
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![]() In what appeared to mark a tougher approach, police used water cannon and rubber bullets
![]() The police also used teargas as helicopters hovered overhead
![]() The demonstrators responded, throwing rocks and bottles
![]() Just 300 yards away from the summit venue, protesters began tugging at the fence they had breached before
![]() But while the scenes have been ugly, the numbers involved have been relatively small
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