Slain Italian nun buried, sisters to stay in Somalia
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Hundreds of mourners packed a Catholic  church in Kenya on Thursday to bid a last farewell to an  Italian nun shot dead in Somalia -- as fellow sisters vowed not  to abandon their humanitarian work despite the dangers.
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Continua a salire il bilancio delle vittime del sisma
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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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Gunmen killed an Italian nun at a   children's hospital in Mogadishu on Sunday in an attack that   drew immediate speculation of links to Muslim anger over the   Pope's recent remarks on Islam.
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Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.
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Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, was laid to rest at a funeral attended by several hundred followers.
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A kidnapped British oil worker was killed and an Italian injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers held hostage by armed men in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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Deceduto uno dei feriti, oggi i funerali del capitano Eid
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The funerals of twin sisters found dead in a flat in North Yorkshire last month takes place at a church in East Yorkshire.
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An Islamist group in Iraq said it had killed two female Italian hostages in a statement posted on an Internet site, but the women&#39;s employers in Italy said on Thursday they had not given up hope.
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LISBON, Portugal  - Portugal planned a national day of mourning Tuesday for Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima.
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday  to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of  skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them  near Mogadishu's airport.
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An elderly American nun killed in the struggle to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers and ranchers was buried in her adopted homeland after a funeral attended by thousands who remembered her courage and dedication.
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(CBS/AP) An Islamic militant group claimed in a Web posting Thursday that two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq have been killed.
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An anguished nation clung to hope Thursday that two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq were still alive, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government urged caution in assessing two separate Internet statements claiming that the women had been killed.
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Pope Benedict XVI appealed Tuesday for mutual respect for religious beliefs as he mourned an Italian nun slain in Somalia in an attack possibly linked to Muslim anger over his recent remarks about Islam.
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:Italy reacted with horror Friday at the killing of its hostage in Iraq, while the government insisted it would stay the course in the Middle Eastern country.