 A scuffle broke out Thursday between saffron-robed monks and anti-war demonstrators at peace rally in Sri Lankan capital.About six or seven monks from a right-wing Buddhist faction had stormed the stage during a peace rally attended by about 1,000 people in the capital, Colombo, shouting pro-war slogans, an AP reporter at the scene said.A member of Sri Lanka's parliament was addressing the crowd when the monks climbed on stage.The monks unfurled banners reading "Take your protest to Kilinochchi," referring to the de facto rebel capital in northern Sri Lanka where hundreds have been killed in the last week.Angry protesters then pulled the monks from the stage and burned their banners, local television showed. There were no reported injuries....
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 'Cannibals' confess in Mozambique |
A husband and wife in Mozambique face multiple charges after confessing to exhuming corpses to eat the flesh and powdered bones, say police. They were arrested in the western village of Vanduzi last weekend in possession of human organs. In a confession, the couple said that eating human flesh strengthened their power to heal people, police say. Gorongosa district police say they are still investigating the case in an area where belief in witchcraft is strong. Gorongosa district police commander, Jose Cumbe, said that it was the first case of self-confessed cannibalism he had uncovered since he began working in Gorongosa two years ago. The husband, 50-year-old Neva Mafunga said he had been eating human flesh for more than 20 years, the police say. ...
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| Bush to sign massive pension overhaul |
Sweeping new rules aimed at prodding U.S. companies into shoring up their pension plans and ensuring that workers get the retirement benefits they've been promised are about to become law.President George W. Bush planned to sign the bill Thursday and has already praised it as "the most comprehensive reforms to America's pension system in over 30 years."The massive legislation reflects the evolution of workers' retirement benefits — the decline in traditional pensions that give retired employees a fixed payment each month and the rise of defined-contribution savings plans that rely on workers to build retirement assets. It could also save taxpayers from funding a multibillion-dollar bailout of the federal agency that insures pension plans....
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| 25 die in Baghdad blasts |
At least 25 people have been killed in three separate bombings in Baghdad over the last 24 hours, it was reported today.The news came as officials reported the most violent month in Iraq since the US-led 2003 invasion, with a sharp increase in the number of roadside bombings.At least four people were killed in a car bomb attack on a market in the Shia-controlled Sadr City suburb at around midday today.Yesterday, eight died in a bomb attack on a queue of people looking for work in the Iraqi capital's central Nahda district, and 13 others were killed in simultaneous car bomb attacks at dusk.Sectarian violence in Iraq is growing as Shia and Sunni Muslim groups vie for supremacy in a country where a Sunni minority has traditionally held power over the Shia majority....
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| Attacks Aimed At GIs In Iraq On Rise U.S. Confirms Sharp Increase In Bombings; Car Bombs Kill 10 In Baghdad |
Two car bombs exploded Thursday in Baghdad, killing 10 people and injuring 16, officials said. Iraq's prime minister insisted the country's forces were ready to take over security duties in most provinces despite rising violence. Also Thursday, U.S. officials confirmed that the number of roadside bombs directed against U.S. and Iraqi forces increased sharply last month, dramatizing the threat posed by the Sunni-led insurgency despite attention directed to sectarian violence in the capital. The parked car exploded a little after noon near a market in Sadr City, Baghdad's biggest Shiite neighborhood, damaging many shops besides inflicting the casualties, said police Lt. Adil Salih. Residents said the casualties were low because most people had finished their shopping early to escape the 120 degrees Fahrenheit heat that was forecast for Baghdad on Thursday. ...
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| Former teacher's confession may be break in JonBenet case, but ex-wife says they were in Ala. |
A former American school teacher said publicly Thursday that he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called "an accident," a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the 6-year-old girl's murder. But the suspect's ex-wife said she was with him in Alabama at the time of JonBenet's 1996 death.John Mark Karr, 41, will be taken within the week to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault, Ann Hurst of the Department of Homeland Security told a news conference in Bangkok."I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr told reporters afterward, visibly nervous and stuttering. "Her death was an accident."Asked if he was innocent of the crime, Karr said: "No."...
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