Plan to dig up Padre Pio attacked
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Plans to exhume Padre Pio - one of Italy's most popular saints - are attacked by his relatives and followers.
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Philippines leader Gloria Arroyo vows to hunt down a group which claimed a trio of deadly bomb attacks.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Dec. 12--STOCKTON -- Stockton East Water District wants to run a bulldozer through a family's walnut orchard in an attempt to appease another neighboring farmer and guard against terrorists who may want to poison Stockton's drinking water.
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POACHING gangs will be targeted by police and water bailiffs in a new crackdown.  Operation Salmo, launched yesterday, is aimed at protecting Scotland's pounds 75million salmon fishing industry by netting poachers who pocket up to pounds 150 a fish.
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Police are due to give evidence for the first time in the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The court will be shown a police video interview with the mayor of the island, Steve Christian.
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In Belfast's brutal backstreet humour, the IRA practice is known as a "Padre Pio" - an ironic reference to an Italian Catholic priest who had stigmata on his hands.
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An assassination attempt was made Sunday on the man who may replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian chief.
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Facing new violence and harsh criticism, the prime minister said Friday he would set up an independent commission to investigate the deaths of 85 Muslim youths in southern
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A Roman Catholic priest was accused yesterday of ordering the bulldozing of his church, killing 2,000 Tutsi parishioners seeking refuge.
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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A plan to drop concrete balls into the mouth of the mud volcano in East Java should be put into action next week.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese  killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to  be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify  hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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The president vowed on Tuesday to forge ahead with a major military offensive against Muslim militants in the southern Philippines that is believed to have been the motivation for deadly bombings in three cities.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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MANILA -- President Arroyo ordered Monday the police and the military to intensify the manhunt for two Abu Sayyaf leaders, Khaddafy Janjalani and Abu Soliman, being the masterminds in the Superferry 14 bombing last February.
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Pope Benedict will meet Muslim   ambassadors to the Vatican and Italian Islamic leaders on   Monday to try to calm anger over his use of a medieval text   which says their religion was spread by violence.
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Security is tightened in Rome ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first appearance since making comments angering Muslims.