Man pierces Milosevic's grave with pole
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Former President Slobodan Milosevic's grave has been desecrated by a man who pierced it with a wooden pole in an ancient Balkan ritual to make sure that an evil spirit never returns, his former party said Monday.
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About 50 hard-line Iranians on Thursday placed a gravestone at a Tehran cemetery to commemorate the deaths of two Palestinians who carried out twin suicide bombings that killed 16 Israelis this week, witnesses said.
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Nobel-prize winning poet Czeslaw Milosz was buried alongside some of Poland's most famous cultural figures, amid controversy over his contribution to the country and the Roman Catholic faith.
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Authorities discovered part of a human skeleton in a vacant lot believed for years to be a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands  - The killers of an outspoken Dutch filmmaker threatened his scriptwriter - a politician who renounced Islam and has criticized its customs - in a letter that was pinned to the victim's body with a knife.
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Rama Ramovic knows it's a sin to build a house on somebody's grave. But he says he cannot move.
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A man who owns property at the site where Flight 93 crashed has demanded millions for his portion of land where a memorial is planned, and has installed a donation box to help pay for security.
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LIMOGES, France -- In the second cemetery attack in a single weekend, vandals smashed vases and tipped over crosses on Roman Catholic tombs in central France, an act the prime minister condemned Sunday as &quot;scandalous.
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VIENNA -- Paying tribute to a key figure in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, Austria's president yesterday unveiled a plaque that praised an Austrian officer executed by the Nazis as a symbol of resistance to the German dictator.
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Belarus' authoritarian president opened a memorial to the founder of the Soviet secret police Thursday, praising "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky as the sort of man Belarus could use today.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator  Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur  medal for services to France, his lawyer said on Sunday,  causing fresh controversy after his death.
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He has been a Yugoslav and a Serb and worked under  Tito and Milosevic. So it makes  sense that the place where Goran Paskaljevic really likes to work is Ireland.
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Mourners gathered Tuesday for the cremation of a Dutch filmmaker allegedly slain by a Muslim extremist in an act that led to a string of retaliatory attacks against
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A historic Serbian Jewish cemetery that for decades has been home to hundreds of Gypsies is getting a face lift after an agreement negotiated by the head of the tiny Jewish community in the town of Nis.
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A German father of five sentenced to  jail for online fraud is protesting against his conviction by  occupying the top of a 22 meter (72 foot) pole.
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The same day Dutch mourners gathered outside a crematorium for a final goodbye to slain filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, police on the other side of the world made a horrific discovery in a hut: the decapitated body of a Thai laborer.
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Serbia started an investigation  on Tuesday into a mass grave believed to contain up to 500  Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, a reminder of why the  United Nations is considering independence for the province.