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Activists promised an angry welcome for leaders of the G20 economies when they arrive in Pittsburgh on Thursday, with anarchist factions threatening to march on the summit venue.

“The city has bought a thousand canisters of tear gas. That is something people are concerned about, like what to do if they are gassed,” said Noah Williams, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project. The group’s unauthorised march, called in open defiance of the authorities, could result in an explosive situation, said Michael Healey, a civil rights lawyer representing 14 environmental activists who were arrested Wednesday. “What i fear at the march is overreaction by the authorities and overreaction by some of the younger protesters. It is a toxic mix,” added Healey.

Pittsburghers gathered in a park on a split of land between two rivers for a concert and rally on Wednesday evening were optimistic the city would not be rocked by the violence that has disrupted such gatherings in the past. The most notorious occasion in North America was at the 1999 World Trade Organisation meeting in Seatle, when anarchists in a 40,000-strong crowd fought running battles with the police.

The most recent G20 summit in London also witnessed violence and British police were criticised after footage filmed during the demonstration showed an officer beating a bystander who later died.” We were all nervous about it,” said 86-year-old Jan Moravec, an environmental activist at the rally in Pittsburgh’s Point State Park. “It is all we have heard about for the past month. When we get through Friday night and we see all the world leaders heading off in their helicopters, we will heave a sigh of relief,” he added.

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World champion Lewis Hamilton believes the disgraced Nelson Piquet Jr could return to Formula One despite his part in the Singapore race-fix scandal.

On the orders of Renault, the Brazilian deliberately crashed his car during the sport’s inaugural night race last year, opening the door for teammate Fernando Alonso to win. The scandal led to the downfall of team principal Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds, but as the “whistle blower”, Piquet, who was sacked by Renault in July, was given immunity. Despite his reputation being in ruins, the 24-year old has apologised and made it clear that he wants to return to the grid.

Hamilton said it could happen. “He is a good driver and he has a great career, so who knows?” said the Brit. “For sure, there are opportunities for him in the future and i can only wish him the best.”

Hamilton has had his own share of bad publicity, but he added that he could not understand how Piquet was feeling right now. “Not really, because i have never gone through what he is going through,” he said. “But he is still very young and he is experienced and he will take it in his stride.”

Meanwhile, any hope Hamilton had of defending his title has vanished with a difficult first half of the year when MacLaren was not competitive. Since then he has picked up points, including a win at Hungary, and said he would always push 100 percent for victory. “I think it is just a part of my character and who i am,” he said. “I have just always had it, in whatever i have done, especially when it is competing. I have always had this something inside of me that i want to win. And it just keeps me going.”

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China has barred foreigners from travelling to Tibet until after October 1 celebrations marking the 60th birthday of communist China.

A staffer at the official Lhasa Tourism Bureau said the ban would officially go into effect on Thursday. “Passes for foreign travellers to enter Tibet will be suspended from September 24 to October 8 and that is according to a notice from the Tibet Tourism Bureau,” said the officer. The notice contained no information and no reason for the measure. Officials with the regional government refused to comment. However, travel agents said the ban was already in place. “It started from Monday and passes for foreign travellers are suspended until October 8,” said a staff at the Tibet Youth Travel Service.

The move is the latest sign of intense official concern over security ahead of National Day, which will mark 60 years since Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government already has sharply ramped up security in the capital, putting thousands of extra police on the streets ahead of the festivities, which will include a military parade, fireworks and mass performances at square. State media reported that outgoing flights would be halted at Beijing’s airport during the parade, and retailers have said they have been banned from selling kitchen knives after two recent stabbings near the square.

Foreign tourists must obtain special permission from China’s government to enter Tibet, the remote Himalayan region where resentment against Chinese control has seethed for decades. China has previously banned foreign tourists from visiting Tibet, including after deadly anti-Chinese riots that erupted in Lhasa and across the Tibetan plateau in March 2008, triggering a massive Chinese security clampdown.

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The top US military commander in Afghanistan has warned that more forces are needed within the next year or the war against the Taliban will be lost, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

General Stanley McChrystal wrote in a classified report: “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term while Afghan security capacity matures - risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.” The grim assessment of the eight-year conflict was presented to US defense secretary Robert Gates on August 30 and is being reviewed by the White House. McChrystal, who is widely expected to make a formal request to increase the 62,000-strong US force, noted the campaign in Afghanistan “has  been historically under-resourced and remains so today.”

As such, he wrote “inadequate resources will likely result in failure.” The weak resources “also risk a longer conflict, greater casualities, higher overall costs, and ultimately, a critical loss of political support. Any of these risks, in turn, are likely to result in mission failure.”

The 66-page document describes a strengthening, intelligent Taliban insurgency. McChrystal also slams the corruption-riddled Afghan government and a strategy by international forces that have failed to win over ordinary Afghans.

“The weakness of state institutions, malign actions of power-brokers, widespread corruption and abuse of power ( by various officials and (The International Security Assistance Forces) own errors, have given Afghans little reason to support their government,” wrote McChrystal.

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As the US prepares to triple its aid package to Pakistan - to a proposed $1.5 billion over the next year - US President Barack Obama’s administration officials are debating how much of the assistance should go directly to a government that has been widely accused of corruption, said American and Pakistani officials.

A procession of Obama administration economic experts have visited Islamabad in recent weeks to try to ensure both that the money will not be wasted by the government and that it will be more effective in winning the good will of public increasingly hostile to the US, according to officials involved with the project.

As American legislators move toward passage of the aid legislation, the administration knows it must get quick results from the increased assistance or face potential Congressional cutbacks down the road in a programme envisioned to cost $1.5 billion every year for the next five years.

“We are struggling over how much cash to give to the government,” said a senior US official involved in the planning. The overhaul of assistance, led by the US state department, comes amid increased urgency about an economic crisis that is intensifying social unrest in Pakistan, and about the willingness of the government there to sustain its fight against a raging insurgency in the northwest.

It follows an assessment within the Obama administration that the amount of non-military aid to the country in the past few years was inadequate and favoured American contractors rather than Pakistan recipients, according to several of the American officials involved.

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One million Cubans gathered in Havana Sunday for a historic music concert that aimed to unite Cubans here and expatriates from the island’s diaspora, said to be the biggest such gathering since the revolution half a century ago.

“We are living in an absurd ideological war,” said the event’s organiser, Miami based singer Juanes, during an intermission of the “Peace without Borders” concert. “We have to exchange hate for love,” he said.

Revellers at the massive event braved blistering heat in the capital’s storied Revolution Square, with merriment belying the political undertones of the concert. US President Barack Obama has welcomed the event, but it was harshly criticised by many in Miami’s Cuban exile community, who feared that the concert would legitimise the island’s communist regime. The Colombian-born Juanes received death treats ahead of the concert. Many of those present appeared to be moved by the message that Cubans everywhere to band together.

“We have to unite Cubans that are inside and those outside. Everyone has family there. It does not matter why they left. We have to leave hate behind,” said Yordanis Padron, a 34-year-old electrician.

Clutching an umbrella, a bottle of water and snack, 73-year old Lidia said she hoped the concert would “serve as a message to the imperialists that we want peace and help to reconcile those here with those from over there. Earlier, Obama welcomed plans for the massive but controversial concert, telling US Spanish-language network Univision the performance could help improve ties with Cuba.

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