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Los Angeles: Police removed barricades and began dismantling pro-palentinian demonstrators' encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave.

The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse. A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered on campus, both inside a barricaded tent encampment and outside it, in support. Protesters and police scuffled and some people were detained with their hands bound with zip ties.

Tent encampme...