South African riot police on Friday blocked hundreds of protesters, mostly women farmers, from entering UN climate talks in Durban, according to an AFP photographer on the scene.
The demonstrators attempted to break through barriers surrounding the conference centre where some 15,000 diplomats, experts and NGOs are trying to breathe life into international negotiations tasked with fighting the threat of climate change.
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