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STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Michelle Obama and other spouses of NATO nation leaders have cancelled a visit to a French cancer hospital at the last minute for security reasons, the French president's office said, as police fired tear gas at protesters nearby.
Some 1,000 protesters were staked out in the historical center of the French city of Strasbourg, near where the spouses were meant to visit a hospital and the city's renowned cathedral Saturday on the sidelines of a NATO summit.
Soon before the hospital visit was scheduled to begin, police fired tear gas to hold back protesters in other parts of the city trying to reach the center of town. The anti-war and anti-capitalist activists are protesting a summit marking NATO's 60th anniversary jointly hosted by Strasbourg and the German towns of Kehl and Baden-Baden.
An official in the French president's office says the hospital visit was cancelled at the last minute on recommendation of police for security reasons. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of presidential policy.
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