Anger at Brazilian Government as U.S. Nun Buried
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun Tuesday and vented anger  that Brazil's government only acted to stem rising violence in  the rain forest after the murder of the renowned foreign  activist.
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Thousand of soldiers were deployed to a lawless Amazon rainforest region where an American nun was shot to death last weekend amid violence between peasants and loggers vying for the area's vast natural resource riches.
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America's stars were too much for Brazil's women Saturday &#151; right from the opening minute.
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In Sri Lanka, angry demonstrators outside the Norwegian Embassy on Monday placed a coffin with the dead body of a Tamil politician outside the Norwegian Embassy.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet will be cremated on Tuesday after a funeral at the military college in Santiago where he began a career that made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.
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Less than four months after causing an uproar by almost expelling a New York Times reporter, the Brazilian government criticized the U.S. newspaper on Monday for a report on a controversial proposal to oversee the country's journalists.
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The families of people buried in the wrong graves react angrily after the person responsible avoids a jail sentence.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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The popular, outspoken head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church was buried Thursday in a state funeral attended by thousands of mourners and top Greek officials.
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GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan  - Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on Friday after the opposition leader's assassination plunged Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests.
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Pakistan was Saturday gripped by division and uncertainty following the burial of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as her supporters angrily rejected a government explanation of her death.
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A war widow who wants the government to put a Wiccan religious symbol on her husband&#039;s memorial plaque held an alternative service Monday as a protest, hours before an official Memorial Day ceremony nearby.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed solidarity on Friday with the families of some 200 people killed in Brazil's worst air crash and promised a thorough investigation in an effort to blunt criticism of his handling of the disaster.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian police searched  Amazon jungle on Sunday for suspected killers of a 74-year-old  American nun gunned down after defending peasant farmers in  conflicts with loggers and ranchers.
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Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday.
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The reappearance of dictatorship-era documents relating to the treatment of political prisoners &#151; papers that a top government official said were destroyed decades ago &#151; has resurrected an issue many Brazilians would prefer to forget.
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Description: Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to mend fences with Latin America&#39;s biggest country at a time when Brazilian popular opinion is adamantly hostile to the United States on issues of trade and foreign policy.