 Mexican riot police firing tear gas clashed with protesters launching fireworks and throwing gasoline bombs in the colonial city of Oaxaca on Saturday, days before President-elect Felipe Calderon takes office. At least two of the demonstrators, who are demanding the resignation of state Gov. Ulises Ruiz, were injured, local radio said.Oaxaca has been in chaos for the last six months because of protests by striking teachers, Indian groups and leftists against Ruiz, who they say is corrupt and authoritarian.The latest violence flared when hundreds of activists tried to surround federal police occupying the city's central square. Armored riot trucks with water canons drove the protesters away from the plaza and sent them fleeing down side streets...
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 Explosions in 2 Chinese Coal Mines Kill at Least 41 Workers; 6 Are Reported Missing |
Explosions in two Chinese coal mines have left at least 41 workers dead and six missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. The first blast occurred Saturday in the Yuanhua Coal Mine in Jixi, a city in northeast Heilongjiang province, when 31 miners were working, Xinhua said. By Sunday, the remains of 21 miners had been found, while six more were still missing, Xinhua said. Four managed to escape. In the southwestern province of Yunnan, at least 20 miners were killed when a gas explosion tore through a shaft in Fuyuan county on Saturday, Xinhua said. Another 20 miners were injured in the blast, it said. Authorities in Fuyuan told The Associated Press by telephone Sunday that they had no information about the incident. The cause of both explosions was under investigation, Xinhua said. ...
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| NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day |
Police were investigating Saturday the shooting death by police of a man outside a Queens strip club in the early hours of his wedding day. Witnesses said officers shot the three young men — the other two were wounded, one remains critical — after they left a bachelor party at Kalua Cabaret at roughly 4 a.m. Reports placed the three men in a car outside the club at the time of the incident. The Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul Browne, declined to comment. "All I know, they was celebrating," said Denise Ford, who said her son was one of the survivors. "The guy was getting married today." Ford said the trio's car had hit an unmarked police vehicle. The intersection where the shooting took place remained blocked mid-afternoon off as cops inspected a car and a minivan and placed markers where shell casings were found. But police did not immediately confirm that either of those vehicles belonged to the department. They will investigate themselves, and clear themselves....
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| S. African Jewish paper causes storm |
The South African Jewish Report, published weekly in Johannesburg, is engaged in a heated public spat with the country's Jewish minister of intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, and the South African Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), over the newspaper's refusal to publish a letter by Kasrils that, the paper's editor says, compares Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories to those of the Nazis during WWII. The Report last week refused to publish Kasrils's reply to an article that questioned his stance on Israel. SAJR editor Geoff Sifrin initially approved Kasrils's request to reply to an article by Anthony Posner entitled "Some Pertinent Questions to Kasrils." Posner had concluded the article with the challenge: "So Mr Kasrils... now is your chance to engage in 'civilized discussion.' But perhaps this 'kitchen' is too hot for you? I am sure that the readers of the SAJR will be interested to see whether you have the ability to respond in a rational manner to all ...
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| Ceasefire agreed for Gaza Strip |
Palestinian militants will halt rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, say senior officials. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' office said that Israel should in turn stop military operations in Gaza and withdraw its forces. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to the plan, his spokeswoman said. The ceasefire will go into effort from 0600 (0400GMT) on Sunday. ...
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| Taliban kidnap 2 Pakistani reporters in southern Afghanistan |
The Taliban has kidnapped two Pakistani journalists in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the militant group and a wife of one of the missing men said Friday. The Taliban said the men were safe and would released soon.Syed Saleem Shahzad, from The Star English-language daily in the southern city of Karachi, and Qamar Yousafzai, a reporter with various newspapers in southwestern Quetta, were last heard from in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Oct. 19, according to Shahzad's wife, Anita Saleem said....
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