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● <B>ACAPULCO. Body parts found as killings continue. </B>A man’s chopped up body was discovered in the Mexican city of Acapulco dumped in plastic garbage bags, police said on Sunday, in the latest grisly killing to mar the once glamorous Pacific resort. Acapulco has been hit by a brutal war between rival drug gangs who have staged shootouts in broad daylight near tourist areas. It was not clear if the latest slaying was drug-related.
● KUALA LUMPUR. Bush, Blair in dock at “house of horrors” summit.</B> About 2,000 peace activists applauded yesterday as the leaders of the United States and Britain were branded “fascist war criminals” at a conference featuring gruesome exhibits of their alleged crimes. Outspoken former Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohamad, who hosted the conference in Kuala Lumpur, won a standing ovation after opening it with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to be tried by an unofficial tribunal for war crimes in Iraq. That campaign reached new heights of graphic intensity yesterday, with an exhibit of alleged war crimes by US forces and their allies over the decades, from Hiroshima to Iraq.
● <B>NAIROBI. Environment ministers meet after climate warning.</B> Environment ministers began meeting in Kenya yesterday to study whether booming global trade can be modified to help save the planet, days after the toughest warning yet that mankind is to blame for global warming.
● <B>FRANCE. Repentace and colonialism . </B>France’s foreign minister warns against a “permanent repentance” for colonialism and said his country should invest more in oil-rich former colony Algeria. Philippe Douste-Blazy spoke after Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal sent a message to Algeria’s president over the weekend saying it was time for France to come to terms with its colonial history. Douste-Blazy bristled at the message. “We should watch out for a bad conscience and permanent repentance,” he said on Europe-1 radio. “We must turn the page, be able to look at Algeria as an equal partner.”
● <B>GAZA. Rivals pull back, free some hostages.</B> Gunmen began withdrawing from Gaza’s streets, some hostages were released and many shops reopened on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire appeared to be taking hold in factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, residents said. Local police took up positions at main intersections after a tense morning in which mortar bombs exploded near the offices of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.It was unclear how long this latest ceasefire, agreed late on Saturday, would hold. Previous deals to stop the fighting collapsed within days or hours.
● <B>VENEZUELA. Celebrations for anniversary of coup. </B>Thousands of Venezuelans wearing red and waving giant inflatable dolls of President Hugo Chavez poured into the streets of Caracas on Sunday to commemorate a 1992 coup that forged Chavez’s reputation. Chavez, who says he is a leading a socialist revolution in the OPEC nation, makes no attempt to brush over the failed putsch he led 15 years ago as a paratrooper officer, saying it represents the birth of a new leftist era in Venezuela.
● <B>ROME. Pope says compassion no excuse for euthanasia. </B>Pope Benedict renewed his appeal to Catholics to reject euthanasia, saying life was God-given and could not be cut short under “the guise of human compassion.”His appeal came days after an Italian doctor who switched off the life support of a paralyzed man at the center of a euthanasia battle was cleared of wrongdoing by a medical panel.
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