FACTBOX: The spread of protests over rising fuel prices

(Reuters) - Protests over rising fuel prices have spread across the globe.

Here are some details of protests on Monday:

* SPAIN:

-- Truck drivers begin an indefinite strike. Long lines of trucks form at Spanish-French border crossings.

Television stations show pictures of abandoned trucks with broken windscreens, lights ripped out and tires punctured after some drivers tried to defy the strike.

Lines of trucks up to five miles long form at Spanish-French border crossings in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

* PORTUGAL:

-- Truck drivers go on strike, with picket lines put up in some places around the country, prompting fears that if the action goes on for long it will lead to shortages at markets and shops.

The government issued a statement late on Sunday, appealing to truckers not to adopt positions that would "penalize the sector itself and the country."

One group of truckers threatened to block the main roads running south to the Algarve to try to prevent goods from reaching the tourist region.

* FRANCE:

-- Truck drivers try to block access for vehicles trying to enter Spain, according to French traffic authority CNIR.

Some 15 truckers stop lorries from traveling to Spain in the border town of Perthus but allow smaller vehicles and buses to proceed.

Around 200 lorries deliberately slow traffic into the city of Bordeaux, union and police sources said.

In Bordeaux, truckers' group OTRE demands government take immediate steps to help offset high prices. It wants government to allow truckers to buy tax-free diesel at 0.98 euros per liter.

Traffic in both directions is blocked at a tollway in Biriatou in southwestern France.