WORLD BRIEFING / GEORGIA
Times Wire Reports
Georgian police clashed with opposition activists in the capital, arresting dozens and beating demonstrators and several journalists.
The clash was the latest violence in Georgia, as the opposition presses its more than 2-month-old campaign to force President Mikhail Saakashvili from office.
Deputy Interior Minister Eka Zguladze said the 39 protesters that were arrested had resisted police who tried to arrest several men accused of assaulting lawmakers in an earlier incident.
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