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A child looks on near the garbage in the street of San Giorgio a Cremano, near Naples, Campania Region, southern Italy, 07 January 2008. A tense standoff between Italian police and locals in Naples who were blocking access to a garbage dump ended peacefully on Monday when the government said it would announce a ‘radical’ solution to a waste emergency. Rubbish has piled up shoulder-high through the streets in the southern port city after refuse collection ceased two weeks ago when almost all waste dumps were declared full to capacity. The army was sent in to clear festering piles of waste from around schools on Monday, but many children did not return after the Christmas holidays because of health fears. A proposed stop-gap solution, to reopen a dump on the outskirts of Naples which had been closed after reaching capacity 11 years ago, outraged residents who blocked several kilometres of roads and briefly clashed with police. EPA/CIRO FUSCO +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
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