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Anti-government protesters in Guinea confronted police in at least two up-country towns on Thursday as violence spread in the second week of a general strike aimed at ousting President Lansana Conte. The strike, launched by union leaders who say Conte is unfit to rule and should step aside, has paralysed the West African nation, triggering street clashes that have killed at least two people and disrupting the strategic bauxite mining industry. Full Story