Thousands protest as EU leaders clash over pact farmers fear will flood Europe with cheaper South American goods.

Protesters lit fires and hurled potatoes at riot police who responded with teargas and water cannons in Brussels, as tensions boiled over at a farmer demonstration against the EU's planned trade deal ...

"I want to tell our farmers, who have been making France's position clear all along: we consider that we are not there yet, and the deal cannot be signed [as it currently stands]', he told reporters, ...