Lawyer cancels funeral for Nazi war criminal
ALBANO LAZIALE, Italy – The bitterly protested funeral of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke was called off hours after it was to have taken place Tuesday by his lawyer, who said police prevented friends and family members from attending amid a noisy protest against the planned religious ceremony.
Shouting “murderer” and “executioner,” hundreds of people jeered as Priebke’s coffin arrived for the funeral Mass to be celebrated by a splinter Catholic group opposed to the Vatican’s outreach to Jews. Protesters even heckled a priest arriving at the gates, yelling ‘’Shame.” One woman fainted.
But Priebke’s lawyer, Paolo Giachini, told The Associated Press the funeral did not take place ‘’because authorities did not allow people to enter who wanted to come in.”
Bombing in Myammar injures American guest
ANGON, Myanmar – An explosion that injured an American guest in one of the ritziest hotels in Myanmar’s main city was caused by a small, homemade time bomb placed in her room, police said Tuesday.
It was the most high-profile in a series of low-intensity explosions that the government alleges is an attempt to tarnish the image of the budding democracy as it emerges from decades of oppressive military rule.
No one has claimed responsibility.
The crude device that went off just before midnight Monday at the Traders Hotel – popular among foreign tourists, businesspeople and visiting government officials – was hidden in the bathroom in an American family’s room on the ninth floor.
The 43-year-old woman was wounded, but her husband and two children, aged 5 and 7, escaped injury.
Protesters to seek higher teacher pay
RIO DE JANEIRO – Protesters are gathering in Brazil’s two biggest cities and a dozen others, with authorities bracing for the possibility of violence.
In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of striking teachers are demanding better wages as they march in the city’s center on Tuesday – the nation’s teacher recognition day.
Last week, a teachers’ protest ended with scenes of sharp violence as so-called Black Bloc anarchist groups battled police.
In Sao Paulo, protesters are marching to support the teachers in Rio. But there are other groups demonstrating in the nation’s biggest city, including groups fighting for affordable housing.
276 arrested after rally for victim of stabbing
MOSCOW – Moscow police on Tuesday detained 276 people who were protesting the stabbing death of an ethnic Russian man, a state news agency reported, while authorities said a suspect in the slaying had been arrested.
The killing has raised tensions between ethnic Russians and natives of the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region, many of whom have migrated to major Russian cities for work. The suspect in the slaying is from the Caucuses nation of Azerbaijan, authorities said.
The protesters had gathered Tuesday evening outside a metro station near Biryulyovo, the working-class district on the southern outskirts of the Russian capital where the stabbing occurred.
Associated Press
